Hitomi Kudo
Hitomi Kudo (工藤 ひとみ, Kudō Hitomi, Chinese: 工藤瞳, Cantonese Yale: Gung1 Tang4 Tung4) is a Japanese actress and former AV idol. Her name is also found as Hitomi Kudou and Hitomi Kudoh.
Life and career
Hitomi Kudo was born in Tokyo (or Hokkaido) on August 17, 1969 (or 1970 as per some sources) and made her AV debut in the July 1989 release In a Dream (夢の中へ, Yume no Naka e) under the h.m.p. Miss Christine label. In the March 1990 video release from VIP, Everyday Fucked, Kudo played a character whose sexual desires are not satisfied even by daily sex. In her later AV career, she appeared in some S&M titles for the Art Video label.
Kudo's first Hong Kong film was Lam Ngai Kai's Category III classic Erotic Ghost Story from May, 1990 and she also had an appearance with Amy Yip in the sequel Erotic Ghost Story II (1991).
In 1991, Kudo starred in pink film pioneer Satoru Kobayashi's Xces release, Joshi Daisei: Dorei Shigan (女子大生 奴隷志願). She also starred in the same director and studio's 1994 release Kyosei Waisetsu Shimai (強制わいせつ姉妹), which was re-released as Sister's Donburi (姉妹どんぶり 味くらべ, Shimai Donburi: Ajikurabe).
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
1998
1999
2000
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
Podcasts:
