Sakura Sakurada is a Japanese actress, model and adult video (AV) performer and director who has also used the name Sakura Matsui for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol. It is a measure of the fame that her uncensored movies have brought her in countries outside of Japan that author Stephen Hunter uses a fictionalized Sakurada as a character in his 2007 novel, The 47th Samurai. The character “Sakura” appears in Hunter’s novel while filming the video Woman Teacher in Black Sakura, one of the real-life Sakurada’s works. In the acknowledgements section of the novel, he also acknowledges Sakurada as one of his muses. In another instance of Sakurada’s popularity in the United States, her video Sakura’s Squirt Tunnel Adventures (released in the US by Oriental Dream Pictures) was nominated in the category “Best Ethnic-Themed Release, Asian” at the 2008 Annual AVN Awards Show in Las Vegas, Nevada (Wikipedia).