Hitomi Aizawa

Hitomi Aizawa (相澤 仁美, Aizawa Hitomi, born 22 August 1982 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress, gravure idol and race queen.

In a 2006 article on an "Air Guitar roadshow" in which Aizawa participated, the website cinematopics.com noted that she was the top idol of the gravure world. Among the films in which Aizawa has appeared are Drift (ドリフト, 2006),Hitorimake (ヒトリマケ, 2008), and Cool Girls (クールガールズ, 2009) In 2006, she appeared in an episode of the Tokyo Metropolitan Television drama Tantei Boogie (探偵ブギ). The website cinematopics.com interviewed Aizawa about her role in the film Open Water 2 (オープン・ウォーター２, 2007), which was based on a true disaster-survival story. In September 2009, Aizawa starred as the title character in a DVD version of the 1980s manga series, Miss Machiko. Advertising for the release made much of Aizawa's prominent bustline.

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Hitomi

Hitomi Furuya (古谷 仁美, Furuya Hitomi, born January 26, 1976), known mononymously as hitomi, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She began her career as model, but after meeting Tetsuya Komuro he began managing her career as a pop singer. In 1998 she left the "Komuro Family" and started working with other musicians and producers, oriented to other musical genres such as pop rock, and more recently to electropop.

Biography

Early life

Born Hitomi Furuya (古谷 仁美, Furuya Hitomi) in Tochigi, Japan, Hitomi's family relocated to Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture when she was a child. Consequently, Hitomi always identified herself as a girl from Kanagawa. hitomi was an enthusiastic athlete throughout her childhood, playing baseball, soccer, and basketball, as well as an avid reader of manga. When hitomi was 16 years old, she was spotted and approached by a scout from a modelling agency. Hitomi signed a short modelling contract and began appearing in magazines while she was still in high school.

In 1993, then 17 years old, Furuya was spotted by eminent Avex music producer Tetsuya Komuro at an audition. Komuro signed Furuya to Avex, put Furuya through vocal training, and decided that she should use an all-lowercase 'hitomi' as her stage name. The following year, in November 1994, hitomi released her debut single, "Let's Play Winter", through Avex Trax, to which she wrote the lyrics. Since then, Hitomi has been the lyricist for almost all of her songs.

Hitomi (voice actress)

Hitomi (ひと美, born February 15, 1967), is a Japanese voice actress from Osaka, Japan. She has also done voice work, especially in eroge, under the name Minami Hokuto (北都 南, Hokuto Minami). As of July 2009, she has been in over 400 works. She is married to fellow voice actor Kazuya Ichijō.

Adult Roles

Eroge

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2001

Hitomi (album)

Hitomi is an album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 2000. It was also issued on the Cargo label and reissued in 2004 on the Important Records label. Hitomi was Fahey's last official release prior to his death in 2001.

History

Hitomi continues Fahey's interest in sound collages and experimental music. It was his last official release prior to his death in 2001.

"Hitomi Smiles" is an unreleased song from the sessions for Old Girlfriends and Other Horrible Memories and "A History of Tokyo Rail Traction" is by the John Fahey Trio from a live session for KBOO Radio. Fahey would go on to release two more albums with the Trio; John Fahey Trio KBOO and John Fahey Trio, Vol. One.

Track listing

All songs by John Fahey unless otherwise noted.

Personnel