Hitomi Kobayashi
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Hitomi Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林ひとみ, Hepburn: Kobayashi Hitomi) is an important early Japanese AV idol. One of the founding figures of the Japanese adult video, she has been called indispensable to any discussion of the AV.[3][4] Mainichi Shimbun calls her "one of the icons of Japanese adult cinema history."[5] Her unprecedented popularity in the mid-1980s, the early days of the Japanese AV, earned her the title "Queen of AV."[6][7][8] According to an adult entertainment reporter for Shukan Shincho, "She laid the foundations for the golden age of adult video."[9]
Hitomi Kobayashi | |
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小林ひとみ | |
Born | Yukari Ishii (1965-09-02) September 2, 1965 (age 58)[1] |
Other names | Queen of AV |
Height | 1.51 m (4 ft 11 in)[2] |
Spouse |
Toshifumi Yuzawa (m. 1987) |
After making her debut as a non-pornographic photobook and "image video" model, Kobayashi entered the AV field in 1986.[5] Because of her rapid popularity, Nikkatsu, Japan's leading producer of softcore pornography at the time, hired her to appear in theatrical films in 1987.[8] After marriage and a semi-retirement beginning in 1989, Kobayashi fully returned to the AV industry in 1998. She announced her retirement in 2003 with a big-budget, though controversial, two-volume farewell adult video.[10]