"[8] In 2008, she also had a lead role playing the title heroine's sidekick Miki in Noboru Iguchi's gore-fest The Machine Girl which premiered at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in March 2008.

[9][10] She reprised her role (billed as Asami Sugiura) in the January 2009 V-Cinema sequel Shyness Machine Girl, although no new footage of her was shot for the short.

[15] Her performance in director Tsukasa Satō's Three Slaves (三匹の奴隷, Sanbiki no Dorei) won Asami the Best Actress award at the ceremony for 2009.

Sukeban hantāzu: Jigoku no kettō) directed by Shin'ichi Okuda,[24][25] and its sequel Yakuza-Busting Girls: Final Death Ride Battle (爆発！スケ番☆ハンターズ　～総括殴り込み作戦～, Bakuhatsu!

[28] Other features include co-starring with AV Idol Saori Hara in the 2010 gory sex comedy Horny House of Horror[29] and a small role in Mutant Girls Squad (directed by Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, and Tak Sakaguchi).

Sugiura traveled to Dallas, Texas in May 2014 to make her first North American convention appearance to promote her 2014 action film Gun Woman by director Kurando Mitsutake.