Taiwanese Pornstar: The Documented Names, and the Law Behind the Gap

Career

Born 19 February 1994. She worked as a model from 2014, appearing in music videos and commercials and in a Taiwanese public television film, and published two poetry collections under the pen name Mimi (靡靡): Ai Zhi Bing (2019) and Women Zoushang De Quanshi Qitu (2020). She studied at a sexology graduate institute and has discussed sex education at length in interviews and podcasts. In February 2024 she debuted in Japan with FALENO STAR under the stage name Tai Ihong, in a release titled Taiwan Angel opposite the Japanese performer Tony Oki; the release was later withdrawn from distribution. She debuted a second time in 2025 under her original stage name, Tiny. Both debuts and the withdrawal appear in her own public account of her career.

Signature: The only performer on this page whose public professional identity was fully established — as a model and a published poet — before the adult work began, which is the cleanest illustration of this page's second inclusion criterion.

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Beyond performing

• Poetry published under the pen name 靡靡: 《愛之病》 (2019), 《我們走上的全是歧途》 (2020)

Mainstream credits

• Modelling, music videos and commercials from 2014
• A Taiwanese public television film

Career

Born in Taiwan to a Taiwanese mother and a Japanese father from Hokkaido, and raised partly in Taiwan as a child, she debuted in the Japanese adult industry on 13 May 2021 under the name Itō Meru with MOODYZ. She won a Sky PerfecTV! Adult Broadcasting Award for "Valuable Actress" in her debut year and the "Most Intelligent Actress" title the following March. In November 2022 she moved to NAX Promotion and rebranded as Nia, and took a theatrical film role in 花腐し (2023). As of the most recent published record, her parents continue to live in Taiwan.

Signature: One of a small number of working JAV performers whose Taiwan–Japan parentage is stated directly, rather than inferred, on her own reference biography — born in Taiwan itself, not merely of distant Taiwanese ancestry.

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• 花腐し (2023)

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Born in Taipei on 10 October 1992 and raised between Los Angeles, New York and Taiwan, she moved to New York at seventeen and stayed thirteen years, working first in fashion and then in digital marketing before entering the adult industry in 2022 with a Jules Jordan Video production. She has since worked for Brazzers, Evil Angel, Naughty America, Reality Kings and Adult Time alongside a direct-to-audience business, joined the Playboy Centerfold platform in 2022 and signed with the agency OC Modeling in 2023. She won Favorite Inked Model at the 2023 Pornhub Awards, reported by XBIZ on 26 April 2023, and has been nominated at the Urban X Awards in 2023 and 2024 and again at the Pornhub Awards in 2024. She gave her first trade interview to Hustler, and has said publicly that the interview was the first time she got to talk about Taiwan.

Signature: The only performer with a documented Taiwanese birth who has won an industry award in the American market.

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Beyond performing

• Direct-to-audience subscription business
• Playboy Centerfold platform, from 2022

Mainstream credits

• Appeared in the music video for Madonna’s "Bitch I’m Madonna" (2015), per her own account

Career

Born in Taipei on 27 July 1990. She began on the Taiwanese subscription platform SWAG and later left it to produce with her own team, making her one of very few Taiwanese performers to control both production and distribution. In June 2020 she reached an agreement with Japan's Soft On Demand to release Taiwan-shot work in Japan in two formats, a 60-minute download edition and a 120-minute DVD edition. She gave an extended interview to BBC Chinese published 29 March 2022 covering the working conditions, income structure and psychological cost of the job. From 2020 she pursued copyright actions against more than fifty people who redistributed her paid work; the Yilan District Court's first judgment held that adult film is protected under Taiwan's Copyright Act and sentenced the defendant to 40 days' detention, commutable to a NT$40,000 fine. Five further defendants who reposted her work to LINE groups were each sentenced to 40 days' detention. Taiwanese judicial practice had previously treated obscene material as ineligible for intellectual property protection. She also runs a YouTube channel discussing industry economics and sex education.

Signature: The only performer in Taiwan whose professional record includes court judgments, which are the highest tier of source this programme uses and are almost entirely absent from this field.

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Beyond performing

• Independent production team after leaving SWAG
• YouTube channel covering industry economics and sex education

Mainstream credits

• BBC Chinese interview, 29 March 2022

Career

Born in Kaohsiung on 30 March 1976. He became nationally known in Taiwan in 2003 for the domestically produced film 台灣水電工 ("Taiwan Plumber"), opposite the performer credited as Xuanxuan, and was prosecuted for it: Apple Daily reported the indictment on 7 August 2003 and, on 30 January 2004, that he had been sentenced to five months’ imprisonment and had paid a commutation fine of NT$166,800 rather than serve it. That is the clearest documented case of Taiwan’s Criminal Code Article 235 being enforced against a performer rather than a distributor. Work in Taiwan dried up afterwards, and Apple Daily reported on 15 November 2005 that he had gone to Japan to work in the gay adult-video industry; his Japanese credits run from 欲望の虎 (V JET, 2004) through アジア航楽紀行 (Prism, 2013), across the labels DNA, KO Company, MEC and Prism. ETtoday returned to him on 15 June 2015 under the headline that the first Taiwanese man to go to Japan as a performer is someone nobody knows about.

Signature: The only performer of any nationality on this page whose record includes a criminal conviction under Taiwan’s own obscenity statute.

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Signed by director 王晶 in early 1997, reportedly on a two-year six-film contract, and starred at eighteen in 蜜桃成熟時1997, which was the top-grossing Hong Kong Category III release of that year. She appeared on the cover of the Chinese edition of Playboy in October 1997 and was named that year among Hong Kong's ten best-known erotic-film actresses alongside 舒淇, 葉玉卿 and 翁虹. She continued in 王晶 productions including 玉女聊齋 (1997) and 玉蒲團之官人我要 (1998), attempted a transition under the name 鍾甄 from 2001, and withdrew from the industry by the mid-2000s.

Signature: The genre’s terminal case: its last new star, launched in 1997, the year the theatrical Category III market collapsed.

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Born in Taipei on 11 February 1982 to a Japanese father and a Taiwanese Hakka mother. She debuted in the Japanese AV industry in 2000 and appeared in roughly fifty titles, working with Soft On Demand, Big Morkal, Dogma and Waap Entertainment among others. In May 2005 she became the model in a Taiwanese love-hotel commercial that made her locally recognisable, and in March 2007 she appeared on the Taiwanese variety programme Shaonian Tegongdui, becoming better known in Taiwan than she had been in Japan. On 11 August 2007 she announced her retirement from the entertainment industry on her own blog, saying she did not want to waste time in an industry with no future.

Signature: The only Taiwanese performer with an itemised, source-checkable filmography and the only one with a dated retirement statement she published herself.

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Mainstream credits

• Taiwanese love-hotel television commercial, May 2005
• Shaonian Tegongdui (少年特攻隊), Taiwanese variety programme, March 2007

Career

Born in Hualien City on 6 January 1992, of Amis indigenous descent. She entered the industry in February 2021 after a friend introduced her to the work. Her stage name came directly from the script of her first film, supplied by the production company, and she kept it rather than choosing her own. Her work has been released through TWAV, Tianmei, Mithao and LOVE6 Royal Chinese, and in 2025 she appeared in an interactive adult video game. In an interview published by NOWnews on 8 April 2022 she said she had set herself a five-year limit on the career, and described pausing production in early 2022 after a drop in work and a short hospitalisation, moving to livestreaming instead. In April 2022 the AV director Piao Zhiyu named her as the Taiwanese performer with the highest public profile.

Signature: The only performer on this page whose entire documented career runs through Chinese-language production houses rather than the Japanese studio system, which is also why almost none of it can be audited.

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Beyond performing

• Livestreaming on the iWant platform from 2022

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She debuted in the Japanese adult-video industry in March 2018 as an exclusive performer for the label E-BODY, and was represented by the agency Esflat. Japanese Wikipedia records her origin as Taiwan and documents ten releases across 2018 and 2019 through E-BODY, HMJM, AVS Collector’s, Momotaro Eizo Shuppan, Uchu Kikaku and Prestige, several of them built explicitly around a Taiwanese-student persona; one 2018 release was issued under the alternate stage name Ran Minmei. Her article describes her as a former AV actress and records nothing after July 2019.

Signature: The second of only two Taiwan-born performers Japanese Wikipedia places in both its Taiwan-born and its Japanese AV actress categories.

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Before entering the Japanese AV industry she worked in maid cafés and Japanese-themed snack bars in Taiwan, and has described a long-standing interest in Japanese culture. She signed with Soft On Demand on 8 August 2025 as the company’s first Taiwanese-born performer and debuted that month; six titles were documented through February 2026. She is fluent in Mandarin, Japanese and English.

Signature: The only Taiwanese-born performer in the Japanese AV industry with a Wikipedia article, and the sole confirmed member of Wikipedia’s own "Taiwanese pornographic film actresses" category.

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Born 16 April 2000. She began as a print model and later joined the Taiwanese adult brand ED Mosaic as both a print model and a performer, keeping to a practice of filming only with her spouse. In an interview published in June 2024 she said she entered modelling because she and her then-fiancé could not afford wedding photography, and described leaving home at twelve after her mother's death and difficulties at home. From 2024 she has worked as a short-form drama actress.

Signature: Her professional identity is publicly established and her stage name, distributor and career arc are continuous — but the underlying sourcing is the thinnest of anyone ranked on this page.

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Mainstream credits

• Short-form drama acting from 2024