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Azumi Kawashima

 
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Azumi Kawashima
Birthdate August 8, 1979 (1979-08-08) (age 30)[1]
Birth location Tokyo, Japan
Measurements 86(65-D)-59-85(cm)
34-23-34(inch)
Height 1.56 m (5 ft 1+12 in)
Weight 45 kg (99 lb; 7.1 st)
Eye colour Brown
Hair colour Brown
Ethnicity Japanese
Alias(es) Wazumi Kawashima
Kazumi Kawashima

Azumi Kawashima (川島和津実 Kawashima Azumi?), born August 8, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol and Adult Video actress (or so-called "AV idol")."[2] Kawashima was already known as a "gravure princess" at the time of her AV debut in December of 1998.[3] By May, 1999 she was called one of the most popular AV idols,[4] and "the number one AV idol" by August of that year.[5][6]

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Life and career

Azumi Kawashima was born in Tokyo on August 8, 1979, and enjoys swimming and walking.[7] She became a favorite among fans of the Japanese AV principally because her "classical elegant beauty", as her appearances are not as extreme or hardcore as many other such videos.[8] Kawashima's debut video was Promise released under the Try-Heart Corporation's Sexia's label in December 1998.[9][3] In January 1999, Kawashima starred in Naive, for the Shy label. Her next video for Sexia, I Want To Hold You (February 1999), was a sex-oriented drama.[10] She was back at Shy for the April 1999 release, Natural. This video was judged a well-acted drama with great sex scenes, involving gangsters and an assassination plot.[11]

Kawashima followed popular AV idol Haruki Mizuno[12] in Sexia's Pretty Wife series. Kawashima's entry, the seventh in the series, was subtitled Dangerous Love Triangle and released in May 1999. She played the role of a woman who is the victim of her wicked mother-in-law. Hoping to save her son from what she believes to be his wife's demoralizing influence, the mother hires two men to rape her. She hopes that if her son witnesses his wife having sex with other men, he will then divorce her. Instead, the entire group join up to scold the mother for being too controlling. The video ends with the mother awakening, discovering it's all been a dream, and taking it as a message to leave her son's house. ActionJAV judges this video "Another great action packed movie performed by the legendary Azumi Kawa[13][14]

Less than a year after her debut, Kawashima's popularity prompted Sexia to release a retrospective video, Azu-mi-x, which included scenes from her first video as well as new material.[5] Sexia's February 2000 multi-star video, ALL STARS: Erotic Lips Selection, had Kawashima on the same tape as fellow Pretty Wife veteran, Haruki Mizuno.[15] A second retrospective video, Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography, was released in September 2000 in a "permanent collector's edition".[6] Kawashima's last releases, a video entitled Memory, and a DVD named Complete Azumi Kawashima, came out in July 2003.[2][16]

In addition to her video career, Kawashima's portfolio includes the release of 9 photobooks released from 1999 to 2003.[17] Outside of her adult work, Kawashima also had a major part in the 1999 V-Cinema horror film Demon Killer or Junreiki 殉霊鬼(じゅんれいき) directed by Seki Akitsugu where six men and women staying at a villa are attacked by a killer.[18][19]

Selected filmography

Video title[20] Company Director Release date
Promise/Appointment
約束
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-081
Greate Kazu December 18, 1998
Naive
純真
Shy
シャイ企画
FE-409
Takehiro Yasuda January 31, 1999
I Want To Hold You
抱きしめたい
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-092
Shion Kageura February 26, 1999
Genuine"/"Purity
生粋
Shy
FE-418
Kunihiro Hasegawa March 23, 1999
Natural Shy
FE-425
Hitoshi Mochinaga April 30, 1999
Pretty Wife 7, Dangerous Love Triangle
プリティワイフ7 あぶない三角関係
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-105
Makoto Nimekoji May 21, 1999
Memories Shy
FE-433
Hitoshi Mochinaga June 18, 1999
Azu-mi-x
あづ・みっ・くす
Compilation with some new material
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-121
Futoshi Sakura August 14, 1999
SEXIA COLLECTION 1999
セクシアコレクション1999
With Haruna Miwa, Kaori Shimizu, Mika Sanada & Ryo Aihara
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-143
Ebisu The Great December 10, 1999
ALL STARS: Erotic Lips Selection
Compilation with other actresses
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-153
Ebisu The Great February 18, 2000
Last Kiss Sexia/Kasakura
KAN-014
May 19, 2000
10th. Anniversary The SHY History M&A
With Momo Aida
Shy
FEDX-009
June 26, 2000
Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography
Compilation video
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-185
Goody September 22, 2000
Forever Shy
FEDV-048
March 3, 2001
Pretty Wife Remix
プリティワイフ Re-mix
With Izumi Morino, Konomi Katori, Ryo Aihara, Yuka Asato & Yuuna Miyazawa
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-215
May 31, 2001
Return Shy
FE-622
September 27, 2001
OFFSIDE: The Best Selection
Compilation with 15 other actresses
Raising Company/Off Side
OSD-060
December 12, 2001
Complete Azumi Kawashima
コンプリート 川島和津実
Raising Company/Off Side
OSD-108
July 10, 2003
Memory: Azumi Kawashima
記憶 川島和津実
Try-Heart/Sexia
SEA-332
Mark Spell July 19, 2003

Notes

  1. ^ Infobox data from: "川島 和津実 - Kawashima Adumi" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?kwsadm00. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 
  2. ^ a b "Complete Azumi Kawashima". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=OSD108. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 
  3. ^ a b "PROMISE". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA081. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 
  4. ^ "Pretty Wife 7". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA105. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 
  5. ^ a b "Azu-mi-x". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA121. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 
  6. ^ a b "Azu-mi-x II". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA185. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 
  7. ^ "Azumi (Kawashima Azumi)". AV Idol Directory. http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=589. Retrieved 2007-06-13. 
  8. ^ "Azumi Kawashima". www.actionjav.com. http://www.actionjav.com/model.cfm?actress_filename=azumi_kawashima. Retrieved 2007-07-29. 
  9. ^ "1998". AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). http://homepage3.nifty.com/kurokami/years/years_1998.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-21. 
  10. ^ "I Want To Hold You". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA092. Retrieved 2007-07-29. 
  11. ^ "Natural". www.actionjav.com. http://www.actionjav.com/title.cfm?iid=1116. Retrieved 2007-07-29. 
  12. ^ "Pretty Wife 4". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA050. Retrieved 2007-06-23. 
  13. ^ "Pretty Wife 7". www.actionjav.com. http://www.actionjav.com/title.cfm?iid=2058. Retrieved 2007-07-29. 
  14. ^ "Pretty Wife 7". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA105. Retrieved 2007-07-29. 
  15. ^ "ALL STARS". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA153. Retrieved 2007-07-29. 
  16. ^ "Memory: Azumi Kawashima". AV Idol Directory. http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA332. Retrieved 2007-07-29. 
  17. ^ "Azumi Kawashima 川島和津実 Books". Urabon Navigator. http://jans-web.com/profiles/n0438&mode=books2. Retrieved 20090-06-20. 
  18. ^ "殉霊鬼(じゅんれいき)(1999)" (in Japanese). AllCinema. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=234168. Retrieved 20090-06-20. 
  19. ^ "殉霊鬼 (VIDEO)" (in Japanese). Japanese Horror Movie Database. http://www.fjmovie.com/horror/j/t6/64.html. Retrieved 20090-06-20. 
  20. ^ Filmography from "Azumi (Kawashima Azumi)". AV Idol Directory. http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=589. Retrieved 2007-06-19.  and "川島和津実 (Kawashima Azumi)" (in Japanese). AV Idol Directoryz. http://avidol.xcity.jp/japan/info.html?aid=589. Retrieved 2007-06-18.  and "Azumi Kawashima (Filmography)". Urabon Navigator 1997-2006. http://jans-web.com/profiles/n0438&mode=movies. Retrieved 2007-08-08. 

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