Interviewer: Aren't you popular with foreigners, Riho?

Riho Nanase Not really (laughs). Oh, but I did meet this middle aged French guy in Tahiti that wanted to take me back to France. But I was going out with a French pilot at the time so...

Interviewer: Hey, so you are popular (laughs). Do they go like "Je t'aime! Mon amoure"!? to try to pick you up?

Riho Nanase (Laughs) They're really good at setting the right atmosphere. The mood's just perfect at whatever it is they set up. It's very beautiful...something I can't say for Japanese men.

Interviewer: Well, Japanese men are more like the silent supporter type. So, what happened in the end?

Riho Nanase The day I had to go back was also the day he had to return to France. I wanted to go with him...but it wasn't a really a realistic option, with money and all.

Interviewer: You could've used that middle-aged guy to take you to France and then run away.

Riho Nanase Ah, you're right (laughs). But it's still a beautiful memory in my mind. I couldn't get myself to ask his address but I did ask for his e-mail address, which he told me he didn't have. That's when I figured that separating here was fate.

Interviewer: Do you still love him?

Riho Nanase I always carry his picture with me. I want to go to France one of these days. I know if we're fated to be together if I see him again.

Interviewer: There are quite a lot of girls that just go after foreign men, but it sounds like you take a more romantic approach.

Riho Nanase That's what's I'm all about. I don't play around too much nor do I have sex with anyone that tries to pick me up. I tend to have long relationships. I lost my virginity at 16 and I continued to go out with the guy all through my high school days, so that's 3 years. The person I started seeing after I graduated also lasted a long time.

Interviewer: You never cheated on your boyfriend?

Riho Nanase Not during high school...though the fact that he was my sex partner might have to do with it. I usually don't go out with guys that look really cool. I go for men who have a nice personality, like someone that I could admire so that makes it hard to cheat on them. The guy I gave my virginity was the same age as me but he had small eyes and he looked really gentle when he laughed (laughs).

Interviewer: Sounds like a friendly guy. So people like that are your ideal type?

Riho Nanase That's hard to say since all the guys I've ever gone out with are like that (laughs). That and they all had lots of male friends and took the friendship seriously.

Interviewer: I think that's important too. Guys that tend to have a lot of friends are usually nice people to be with. So how many men have you had relationships in total?

Riho Nanase It's usually the "guy asks girl out and the girl slowly falls in love with guy" pattern. The times it was the other way around didn't end too well. I do everything I can for the guy but in the end I just get played and get dumped. I never realize it until people around me tell me what's happening (laughs).

Interviewer: Are they usually men that are older or already married?

Riho Nanase They tend to me older men that I admire. There was one who was already married. They usually tend to be men that take a long time to like but once you do, you don't want to let go.

Interviewer: This sounds a bit familiar. They do say that getting a girl like a tug of war, with the whole point being to just give them enough so that they want more (laughs).

Riho Nanase Oh come on (laughs). But given that I have experience with long distance relationships and being a mistress, I might actually like relationships that are hard to succeed in.

Interviewer: I see. Just like the case with the French pilot.

Riho Nanase I guess it is, now that you mention it. (laughs)

Interviewer: After looking at your debut video I got the impression that you were into a really perverted girl even in your private life. Did you have a lot of interest in sex before you lost your virginity?

Riho Nanase Not really. I had sex for the first time with my boyfriend after going out with him for about 3 months, but I was more afraid of sex more than anything else until then. There weren't too many girls I knew that had sex experience, so I guess I was more worried than interested.

Interviewer: How did you feel after doing it for the first time?

Riho Nanase "Damn, so I finally ended up doing it" (laughs). It's not that I was satisfied with my sex experience, but I was just satisfied that I did get through with it in one piece. I mean, it didn't hurt all that much like everyone said it does.

Interviewer: When did you realize that having sex was a good thing?

Riho Nanase My boyfriend at the time was also a virgin until then but he was really interested in sex so, my guess is that he watched a lot of AVs or something, but anyway, we ended up trying a lot of things together. I think he was quite a big of a pervert now that I think about it (laughs).

Interviewer: So you did blindfolding and getting tied up!

Riho Nanase I don't know how but he had a pair of handcuffs (laughs). He blindfolded me a lot too. That and doing it outside. We'd do it in the parking lot or by the beach shore. A vibrator was too expensive so he bought a massager for me. Maybe that's why I got into sex so quickly.

Interviewer: So as time passed you got used to accepting handcuffs and blindfolding as part of your normal sex life?

Riho Nanase That's why I was so taken back when I started seeing someone else. I realized how different it was from person to person. It's all my first boyfriend's fault that I ended up like this (laughs).

Interviewer: When was your first orgasm?

Riho Nanase That was also during when I was seeing my first boyfriend. Maybe about a year after I lost my virginity. Sex felt good until then, but it wasn't until then that I felt electricity run through my body. That and it felt like something was about to force itself out my body. It was amazing.

Interviewer: Nice! Exactly what I expected from you (laughs). It's people like you that should become AV directors.

Riho Nanase It was after that I started to take a aggressive stand towards sex. That habit of mine popped up during the second tape I did. Starting from the middle of the shooting I started ordering the guys around to do this and that. I want the same treatment too though. I want guys to tell me if I'm doing it properly or not.

Interviewer: They do say that sex is the prime way for men and women to communicate.

Riho Nanase That's the sex of sex I like. I like to get the feeling that I'm learning a secret about my partner than sex a physical connection.

Interviewer: I can't get the thought that you were born for AVs out of my head.

Riho Nanase It was a world that I knew nothing about but I started getting interested in it after I got scouted and listened to the scout. I have a complex about the fact that my skin is too weak for makeup. A small part of the reason I decided to do AVs is because I thought that maybe I would gain more confidence about my body as I did more AVs.

Interviewer: Do you have any reservations about other people seeing you having sex?

Riho Nanase None. I was tense when I had to strip for the first time but I was perfectly fine when the shoot started. I always somehow manage to hide my tension when I'm under pressure ever since I was little so...the director actually got angry with me for that. He told me that I should be tenser since it is my first time (laughs). When the shooting starts the only thing I can see is the camera and the actors in with me. I'm rather surprised by how well I'm doing it myself. That and the fact that I can't act to save my life.

Interviewer: It's been 6 months since your debut. What does doing AVs mean for you?

Riho Nanase Something that is worth doing. Something that has positive value. I found out many things about myself that I didn't know before and I feel a lot more confident about myself than I was before.

Interviewer: Not surprising given the sales figures for your videos.

Riho Nanase When the publishers told me what they were aiming for at first, I felt the need to live up to their expectations so I think I worked harder than what was needed. I want to be thought of as being capable of even more. You can probably tell that I hate to lose.

Interviewer: So is that why you've tried even bukkake videos?

Riho Nanase I've done a lot of new genres since November. There are a lot of things that I can only experience in this world. I like finding out more things about myself. I wasn't used to Bukkake when I did it with Audas but it felt so good when I did it with Warp that I don't even remember much of it. The director called it a "Bukkake Trance" and that's how it really was. I've always considered myself a bit of masochist, but I think I'm turning into an even bigger one.

Interviewer: Any other genres you still want to try?

Riho Nanase I did a lesbian scene with another actress for Million a while back. I was on both the giving and receiving when with a strap-on dildo and that's when I found out how guys felt when having sex. It's no wonder guys like sex so much (laughs).

Interviewer: So you now have a bit of a sadistic side as well.

Riho Nanase I felt a bit of a teasing mood when I was on the giving end. Sort of like when a girl seduces a guy.

Interviewer: You should try using a strap-on on an actor's ass sometime.

Riho Nanase That sounds like fun (laughs). I also want to try SM that's a bit more hardcore. I did it once before with a candle and that felt really good. I once cried during a bukkake shooting and that felt good too. I find myself enjoying pain a lot more nowadays.

Interviewer: You're starting to sound really masochistic...

Riho Nanase I know. But I don't suddenly want to go into hardcore SM right away though. I want to slowly ease myself into it. I felt the feeling that doing it all at once will just be too much for me to handle. I want to enjoy the process of me become a true masochist slowly.