 By December 2004 Kikuchi, aged 39, had returned to AV with a series of videos for Madonna, a studio specializing in "mature" actresses.She also performed in "Mourning Dress Slave / Eri Kikuchi" in July 2005 for CineMagic, the AV company she had made her début with 20 years previously.As of 2013, Eri Kikuchi was billed at the Nagoya fashion health "Nishiki VIP Toshima".