Hitomi Kobayashi 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. Mainichi Shimbun calls her one of the icons of Japanese adult cinema history. Her unprecedented popularity in the mid1980s, the early days of the Japanese AV, earned her the title Queen of AV. According to an adult entertainment reporter for Shukan Shincho, She laid the foundations for the golden age of adult video.
According to her official profile, Hitomi Kobayashi was born Yukari Ishii in Tokyo on September 2, 1965. However, in an interview in the Weekly Post just before her retirement in 2003, she confessed to have actually been born in 1963. Her ambition since childhood was to be an actress. She attended acting school, and registered with a talent agency. Kobayashi was not particularly sexually precocious, claiming at the time of her AV debut, I lost my virginity at 18, which is probably a bit late, and I wasnt very experienced with men.
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