Ryo Hitomi (瞳 リョウ, Hitomi Ryo, born September 21, 1975) is a Japanese AV idol, gravure model, singer, author and television personality.
Born in Tokyo, after some experiences as a gravure model, Hitomi started her adult career with the video Sensational breast commotion released in January 1996 by Atlas21. She continued appearing in several AVs for Atlas21 for over a year and then worked with a number of other studios. In December 1998 she was the inaugural actress in Idea Pocket's series of "Angel" videos.
During this time she also appeared on several TV programs, including being a semi-regular in the TV Tokyo late-night variety show Gilgamesh Night, and in the Nippon Television comedy show Super Jockey. In another mainstream venue, Hitomi had a role in the 1997 direct-to-video V-cinema horror feature Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso, starring Aya Sugimoto. In 1998 she released a CD together with the AV idol Yuki Tsukamoto. Hitomi also performed in the yakuza action comedy Break Heat released to theaters in February 1998. In 2000 Hitomi published an autobiography in which she described her male phobia, the relations with her parents and her experience in the adult industry. Hitomi retired from show business in 2001, and she later worked in a cabaret club in Ginza and in the beauty industry.
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.
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 (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.
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.
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.
All songs by John Fahey unless otherwise noted.
Rita May, Rita May
You got your body in the way
You're so damn nonchalant
But it's your mind that I want
You got me huffin' and a-puffin'
Next to you I feel like nothin' Rita May
Rita May, Rita May
How'd you ever get that way?
When do you ever see the light?
Don't you ever feel a fright?
You got me burnin' and I'm turnin'
But I know I must be learnin' Rita May
All my friends have told me
If I hang around with you that I'll go blind
But when you hold me
I know there must be somethin' on your mind
Rita May, Rita May
Won't you come out and play?
[Incomprehensible] where you been?
What's that crazy place you're in?
I'm gonna have to go to college
'Cause you are the book of knowledge Rita May
All my friends have told me
If I hang around with you that I'll go blind
But I know when you hold me
That there really must be somethin' on your mind
Rita May, Rita May
You got your body in the way
You're so damn nonchalant
It's your mind that I want
I'm gonna have to go to college