Miki Hamano

Playboy Playmate of The Month for March 2019

Miki Hamano Bio Editors Choice

Miki Hamano is a Japanese actress, glamour and fashion model. She was born on March 1, 1993, in Sapporo, Japan, and has also been credited as Saki Kishima. Playboy named her its March 2019 Playmate at 26. Her appearance came during Playboy's contemporary era of international and digital publishing.

Hamano has natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 34-24-35.

At 19, Miki Hamano left Japan for the United States with limited English and little idea of what life abroad would demand. She spent three years in Palm Desert before moving to San Francisco, where she completed a business degree. The move became an education well beyond the classroom, and she later described the difficulty of navigating a new country and language as part of what made the experience exciting.

Modeling followed after graduation and soon became full-time work. Hamano collaborated with brands including Honey Birdette and appeared in magazines such as Vulkan and The Forest Magazine. Travel became one of the pleasures attached to the profession; she spoke enthusiastically about meeting people around the world and eventually came to regard California as home.

Los Angeles initially presented a different kind of challenge. Surrounded by models she considered exceptionally beautiful, Hamano said she had once been hard on herself and felt pressure to resemble the women around her. Over time, she became less interested in comparison and more comfortable presenting herself naturally. Her Playboy interview framed that change as a matter of self-acceptance rather than an invitation to be defined purely by appearance.

Hamano also explored work beyond still photography. She appeared as Trainer 1 in the 2018 film Perfect and was cast as Kimono in The Kinjiku. In 2020, she played the Club Singer in The Weeknd: Blinding Lights, appearing opposite The Weeknd in the nightclub sequence of the music video.

Art remained an interest even when she was not working professionally in it. Hamano said she had experimented with painting, sculpture and other forms despite joking that she was not especially skilled at them. She also enjoyed Japanese and Mexican food and, for a period, experimented with eating raw foods. Those interests accompanied a career that continued to move between modeling, screen appearances and creative projects in California.

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