Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on October 2009

Pinup model and pole dancer Yuuri Morishita, 24, was happy to show her curves at a recent event to promote the French action film Banlieue 13 Ultimatum. Released as Ultimatum: Muscles Never Die in Japan, the movie is set in the near future in a poor area of Paris dubbed District 13, where drug gangs rule. Morishita, who was dressed up as one of the female characters in the movie, complete with fake tattoos, said, “The muscle men in this movie really caught my attention. If a guy like them would pick me up and carry me in his arms, I would just melt.”