Yoshizawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on March 3, 1984,[4] and made her first appearance as a gravure idol in the Kodansha company's Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) in 2002.
[5] In February 2003 she posed for gravure photos by Hiroyuki Yoshida (吉田 裕之) released as the photobook Akiho (あきほ) (ISBN 978-4754215507).
[7] Her second video 18-Teens was made for the Max-A Samansa in April 2003, and she continued alternating performances between the two studios through the middle of 2006, usually making one movie a month.
[8] Among her early videos was the July 2003 incest-themed My Sister Is an AV Idol for Alice Japan directed by sometimes-mainstream director Rokurō Mochizuki.
[9] For her work in her first year in AV, Yoshizawa was nominated for the Best New Actress Award at the 2003 X City Grand Prix Awards[10] In addition to her hardcore AV videos, Yoshizawa has also appeared on TV and in mainstream movies and softcore V-Cinema and pink films, including the August 2004 horror movie Koibone,[11][12] which was later released as a DVD by Taki [THD-14161] in June 2005,[13] and the December 2004 pink film Picture Book of a Beautiful Young Girl: Soaked Uniform.
[19] In an interview,[20] Yoshikawa said she first met the director of the movie, Tetsuya Takehora, when he directed her in a V-cinema production Erotic Fountain (エロビアの泉) for the TMC studio in 2006.
[24][25] In 2006 Yoshizawa starred in The Inner Palace: Indecent War, a historical costume drama set in the Edo period, released by Max-A under the DoraMax label in July 2006.
[29] By the end of 2006 Yoshizawa was no longer making adult videos for Alice Japan and Max-A and began working for two new AV companies, Maxing and S1 No.
One of her S1 videos, the May 2007 release Hyper Risky Mosaic - Special Bath House Tsubaki, featuring S1 stars Sora Aoi, Honoka, Yuma Asami and eight others was the studio's entry for the 2007 AV Open contest where it took the 1st Place Award.
[35] In another media, she was a nominee for the Best Actress Award for her 2007 appearances on adult Channel 902 (Midnight Blue) on satellite TV broadcaster SKY PerfecTV!
[40] In May 2008 she appeared in the mainstream science fiction comedy Shin supai gâru daisakusen, known in English as Spy Girl's Mission Cord #005, where she plays an evil alien seductress.
[50][51] Also in 2008, Yoshizawa starred as the title character in the V-cinema science-fiction fantasy Maid-Droid which was subsequently released theatrically by Shintōhō Eiga in January 2009.
[52] In 2010 Yoshizawa was selected to star in the inaugural episode in the "Scary Erotic Ghost Stories" (エロ怖い怪談) series of videos combining horror and eroticism.
1 Style on January 22, 2010, which was won by the team of Keiji Mutoh, Masakatsu Funaki and S1 Mask under the management of Yoshizawa's usual coworker Megu Fujiura.
[69] In an October 2019 interview, Yoshizawa hinted at becoming a romance novelist[70] and on February 28, 2020, she confirmed on Twitter that she is in the process of writing her first novel, which she intends to publish in the future.
[71] On March 28, 2020 Yoshizawa published her autobiographical novel 16 Years as an AV Actress, which details her career and her personal experiences in the adult film industry.