Hitomi Kobayashi

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Hitomi Kobayashi
Birthdate: September 2, 1965 (1965-09-02) (age 42)[1]
Birth location: Tokyo, Japan
Birth name: Yukari Ishii
Measurements: 82(D-65)-58-88(cm)
32-23-35(inch)
Height: 1.51 m (4 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Shoe size: 21cm
Natural breasts: Yes
Blood Group: AB
Orientation: Heterosexual
Ethnicity: Japanese
Alias(es): Kaori Matsumoto[2]
No. of films: about 70[3]
Official web site
Hitomi Kobayashi at IMDb

Hitomi Kobayashi (小林ひとみ Kobayashi Hitomi?) 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.[4] Mainichi Shimbun calls her "one of the icons of Japanese adult cinema history."[3] Her unprecedented popularity in the mid-1980s, the early days of the Japanese AV, earned her the title "Queen of AV."[5][6][7] [8][9] According to an adult entertainment reporter for Shukan Shincho, "She laid the foundations for the golden age of adult video."[10]

After making her debut as a non-pornographic photobook and "image video" model, Kobayashi entered the AV field in 1986.[3] Because of her rapid popularity, Nikkatsu, Japan's leading producer of softcore pornography at the time, hired her to appear in theatrical films in 1987.[9] After marriage and a semi-retirement beginning in 1989, Kobayashi fully returned to the AV industry in 1998. She announced her retirement in 2003 with a big-budget, though controversial, 2-volume farewell adult video.[11]

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[edit] Life and career

[edit] Early life

According to her official profile, Hitomi Kobayashi was born Yukari Ishii (石井ゆかり Ishii Yukari?) in Tokyo on September 2, 1965.[12] However, in an interview in the Weekly Post (週刊ポスト?) just before her retirement in 2003, she confessed to have actually been born in 1963.[13] Her ambition since childhood was to be an actress. She attended acting school, and registered with a talent agency.[3] 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 wasn't very experienced with men."[3]

This relative sexual conservatism extended into her AV career. The sex scenes in all but her final video were simulated.[14] Even at the end of her AV career, Kobayashi's attitude towards sex remained modest. Interviewed at the time of her retirement, Kobayashi said, "I love sex. But, just because I'm an AV actress, it doesn't mean I'm brim-filled with experience. I've done orgy movies, and lesbian scenes and loads of abnormal stuff, but the world of videos isn't a real world. My normal life is really plain. I couldn't imagine having sex anywhere other than in bed and taking part in an orgy would be unthinkable. I'm happy enough with just the missionary position."[3]

Kobayashi made her debut using the stage name Kaori Matsumoto (松本かおり Matsumoto Kaori?) in May of 1986 in a photobook and "image video" both titled Pounding: 19-year-old Kaori (ときめき・かおり19歳 Tokimeki: Kaori Jukyusai?).[2] However, in spite of these two releases, she believed her career was going nowhere.[3]

[edit] AV debut

Not long after her debut in the non-pornographic media, Kobayashi was presented with a new opportunity. She says, "I got this offer to do a movie called Kinjirareta Kankei (Forbidden Relationship). I was told there were nude and love scenes, but nothing steamier than any ordinary movie."[3] Shocked when she found out this was actually an adult video, she was at first reluctant. After a long discussion with her agent she finally agreed to perform in the video only if the sex was simulated. She changed her stage name to Hitomi Kobayashi for the video which was a surprise success, selling 50,000 copies.[3] Her amazing popularity quickly made her the leading AV actress of the mid-1980s, and, not long after her debut, she had earned the title "AV Queen."[5]

Japan's censorship laws prevent the display of the sexual organs,[15] allowing Kobayashi to maintain her insistence on performing only simulated sex on camera throughout her AV career. Kobayashi considered her AV performances to be another form of acting and came up with various techniques for appearing to have actual sex. For example, she says, "I used to get the directors to tickle my feet and then tried not to laugh so it looked as though I was climaxing."[3]

Her career was put in danger when an uncensored bootleg copy of one of her videos circulated. When it could be plainly seen that the "AV Queen" was not performing real sex, Kobayashi feared that her fans would abandon her. These fears proved to be groundless, however, and her popularity continued.[3]

[edit] Theatrical career

By 1987, Kobayashi's popularity had already earned her the title "Queen of AV".[9] Nikkatsu, which had been the leader of Japanese theatrical pornography since the inception of its Roman Porno series in 1971, was rapidly losing its audience to the AV industry. Though the studio had publicly condemned the AVs for years, in an attempt to lure some of Kobayashi's AV fans into the theater, Nikkatsu hired the AV Queen to star in her own series of films. The first of these, Hitomi Kobayashi's Secret Pleasure (小林ひとみ 奥戯快感　艶 Kobayashi Hitomi ougi kaikan: tsuya?) was released in January of 1987. Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser, in their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, judge the film as "little more than a Playboy or Penthouse lingerie special."[9]

Hitomi Kobayashi's Heavy Petting

The second, Hitomi Kobayashi's Heavy Petting (ハード・ペッティング Hard Petting?), released in March 1987, was part of Nikkatsu's new "Roman X" line, which was purportedly more "hardcore" than the standard Roman Porno. However, Japan's practice of censorship by fogging out genitals made this move into "hardcore" rather pointless, since, as Donald Richie put it in his pioneering essay on the Pink film, "none of the working parts are ever shown."[16] Both of these first two films were judged little more than AVs on film, and were not popular with either AV fans or the critics, who preferred Nikkatsu's older Roman Porno style.

Hitomi Kobayashi's Young Girl Story

The third in this series, Hitomi Kobayashi's Young Girl Story (小林ひとみの令嬢物語 Kobayashi Hitomi no reijo monogatari?) (released December 19, 1987), came closest to the old Nikkatsu style, in that it had some semblance of a plot,[9] but by now it was too late for the studio. It would cease production of Roman Porno in 1988, and declare bankruptcy in 1993.[17] At the height of her popularity, in 1987, Kobayashi married Toshifumi Yuzawa, who would later become the president of Kobayashi's talent agency.[11] Kobayashi put her AV performances on hold for a few years beginning in 1989 to concentrate on family matters. During this period, she never officially retired, never completely ceased appearing in AVs, and worked occasionally as a stripper.[13] In 1988 she had a major role in the mainstream Evil Dead Trap (死霊の罠 Shiryo no wana?). All Movie Guide describes the film as a "sickening but riveting slasher,"[18] and author and film critic Patrick Galloway calls the film, "...nothing short of a multicultural terror tour de force, featuring gruesome, brilliantly rendered sound and imagery that will stay with you to your last dying gasp."[19] Written by Takashi Ishii and directed by Toshiharu Ikeda, the film inspired two sequels.[18] Japan Home Video, which financed the film, wished to showcase Kobayashi, their top AV star at the time, as the star of the film. Director Ikeda, unsure of Kobayashi's acting abilities, instead put Miyuki Ono in the lead role of Nami, and gave Kobabayashi the supporting role of Rei. The near adult-video style sex scenes that Kobayashi performs in the film have been criticized by horror film purists as the element that prevents the film from attaining genre classic status. Galloway, however, points out that Evil Dead Trap is not pure horror, but a genre-transcending film. About the sex scenes, Galloway comments, "Ikeda handles the steamy segments like a pro, coming as he did from Nikkatsu, where he honed his craft making the studio's signature roman porno (romantic pornography).[20] In 1996 and 1997 Hitomi Kobayashi starred in two films for pioneering pink film director Satoru Kobayashi, director of Flesh Market (1962) the first pink film.[21] In 1997 she played the somewhat autobiographical role of fictional AV actress Mizuki Mahoro in the 1997 V-cinema film Destroying Mosaic (モザイク崩し?).[22] Kobayashi's official return to the AV industry was in the November 1998 video Love Bond or Immoral Bonds.[23]

[edit] Later career

Over ten years after her debut, Kobayashi was by now a "mature woman" model, and her videos began to reflect the new niche for mature models in AVs which began to appear in the mid-1990s.[24] Her June 1999 release, Madame Throat ventured into the incest genre. Kobayashi played the role of a woman who engages in sex with her three stepsons.[25]

Her first video in the popular "documentary" genre of AVs[26][27][28][29] was Extreme Privacy of September 1999.[30] In December she released Nasty Female Teacher, another of her purely fictional videos. This video, filmed by a director using the pseudonym Hattori Hanzo, has Kobayashi playing the role of a female teacher at an all-male school.[31]

The turn of the millennium found Kobayashi still at work, satisfying a "new generation of horny guys" in the omnibus video, KUKI DVD Buyer Boy 01.[32] In the first of a three-video "Stimulant" series, she played a psychiatrist who administers "drastic treatment measures with wishy washy impotent patients" in Stimulant: Doctor Hitomi Kobayashi.[33] Other post-come-back videos had her playing a spy,[34] an angel,[35] a seductive school teacher,[36] and a housewife with a secret lesbian past.[37]

Kobayashi teamed up with Japan's first hardcore pornographic actress, Kyoko Aizome,[38] in the February 2001 theatrical release, Kyoko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition (愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ?).[22] Aizome both starred in and directed the film, which was released by Nikkatsu's post-Roman porn distributor of theatrical pornography, Excess films.[39][40] An adult video starring the two legendary actresses and also directed by Aizome followed in March. Entitled Lesbian Wives, the video had Kobayashi and Aizome playing the wives of two yakuza bosses who become engaged in a lesbian relationship.[41] The same year, Kobayashi and her husband opened a nightclub in Roppongi.[3]

[edit] Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL

Hitomi Kobayashi Final: Volume 1
Hitomi Kobayashi Final: Volume 1

In an industry in which the average career spans only a year and produces five to ten videos,[42] by 2003, Kobayashi had worked in the AV field for over a decade and a half and appeared in about 70 films.[3] The 39 AVs in which she had starred had sold over 600,000 copies, earning about 6 billion yen.[10] Reflecting on her her Adult Video career at this time, Kobayashi commented, "I'm delighted to have led a career where I would be elevated to being called 'AV Queen,' as well as to have lasted in the business until I turned 40."[3]

Wishing to retire on a high-note, Kobayashi and her manager/husband advertised for investors in one last, 2-volume, two-and-a-half-hour AV opus. Kobayashi sought 35 investors who would contribute 500,000 yen each, for the privilege of a dinner with Kobayashi, having their names listed in the video's credits, and an exclusive viewing of the video.[10] The video was released in two volumes as Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL - Disc1 (December 19, 2003) and Disc2 (December 31, 2003).[12] The first half of the work was subtitled Nostalgic, and contained highlights from videos made during the early part of her career.[43] The second volume of the set, subtitled Love, was promoted as containing Kobayashi's first and last on-screen real sex scene.[44]

Hitomi Kobayashi Final: Volume 2
Hitomi Kobayashi Final: Volume 2

Controversy followed in the wake of the release when some of the investors in the video reported they were promised dividends from their investment, but had received none. It was claimed that Kobayashi had got over 50 investors for the project, but that her husband had used the money to pay personal debt and for recreational activities unrelated to the film. Insufficient communication with the investors, the shutting down of the film's website, the company repeatedly changing its name, and changing reports on whether or not the film made a profit added to investor complaints.[11] In 2004, Kobayashi was reported working as a hostess at her nightclub in Roppongi.[11]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Videos

Video title[45] Company Director Release date
Pounding: 19-year-old Kaori
ときめき・かおり19歳
Tokimeki: Kaori Jukyusai
debut video (non-pornographic)[2]		 Docks
ダックス		 May 1986
Prohibited Relations
禁じられた関係
Kinjirareta Kankei
debut adult video		 VIP May 15, 1986
色情 VIP July 5, 1986
瓶詰め地獄 Nikkatsu July, 1986
お口に誘って Shintoho August 5, 1986
溺愛BLIDED LOVE VIP September 5, 1986
見られたいの 現映社 October 10, 1986
天使の唇 Shintoho October 15, 1986
ミルキーデビル邪夢猫 Alice Japan October 15, 1986
燃えつきるまで VIP November 15, 1986
夢で逢えたらアイドルクイーン SHOWA November 15, 1986
ミステリークイーン恋の異星人 シャリオ December 1, 1986
さよならの前に ホップ December 10, 1986
ひとみ先生のｸﾗｲﾏｯｸｽは御一緒に Shintoho December 21, 1986
本番深くうめて Five Star January 1987
本番深くうめて2 Five Star 1987
みだらな瞳 Phoenix January 10, 1987
性獣ﾄﾗｲｱﾝｸﾞﾙ～暴かれたﾊﾈﾑｰﾝ～ Alice Japan January 10, 1987
夢犯恋人 JVD February 15, 1987
悪女 Shintoho February 15, 1987
下半身の女 スリーパーツ March 1, 1987
Sexy Violence
セクシーバイオレンス		 Alice Japan March 10, 1987
ロックビートは危険な囁き SHOWA 1987
奥戯快感　艶 Nikkatsu April 1, 1987
魔性 Shintoho April 25, 1987
Midnight Call
に乱れて		 Nikkatsu May 25, 1987
桃色情交 スリーパーツ May, 1987
挑発／深くうめて3 Five Star June, 1987
挑発／深くうめて3 Five Star June, 1987
Zoom Up Special
ズームアップ・スペシャル		 Alice Japan Kazuhito Kuramoto September 25, 1987
The Bible
ザ・バイブル		 Alice Japan Kazuhito Kuramoto November 15, 1987
Sex Triangle vol.2
性獣トライアングル2		 Alice Japan Sho Sasaki May 15, 1988
Zoom Up All Stars
ZOOM UPオールスターズ		 Alice Japan Kazuhito Kuramoto September 25, 1988
La Valse
ラ・ヴァルス
La valuse: watashi bokosaremashita		 ＫＵＫＩ February 15, 1990
Sucking Lady
もろなめ夫人		 Alice Japan Yuhojin October 15, 1993
Cock Sucking Lady
いもしゃぶり夫人		 Alice Japan Yuhojin December 24, 1993
Alice Memories Vol. 1
アリスメモリーズVol.1		 Alice Japan March 7, 1997
Immoral Bonds
背徳の絆		 KUKI November 26, 1996
Topaz
トパーズ		 KUKI November 27, 1998
Video CD Special Vol 15
ビデオCDスペシャル15		 KUKI February 27, 1999
Immoral Baptism
背徳の洗礼		 KUKI Shusaku Mizutani March 23, 1999
Immoral Bonds
背徳の絆		 KUKI Shusaku Mizutani May 21, 1999
Madame Throat Deep Spot
マダムスロート奥の淫		 KUKI Gasbel June 28, 1999
Neo Video CD Special Vol.1
NEOビデオCDスペシャル01		 KUKI July 20, 1999
Big Tits Tank Angels 6
乳TANKの天使たち6		 KUKI Gregoru Shimizu August 18, 1999
Madame Throat
マダムスロート		 KUKI September 10, 1999
Molesting Sexy Teachers
女教師痴漢調教		 KUKI Makoto Taiga September 22, 1999
Extreme Privacy
極私性		 KUKI Gasbel VHS:September 25, 1999
VCD:March 10, 2000
Neo Video CD Special Vol.5
NEOビデオCDスペシャル05		 KUKI November 20, 1999
KUKI Best Actresses Vol. 11
KUKI人気女優BEST VOL.11		 KUKI Toru Daikanyama December 10, 1999
Nasty Female Teacher
女教師姦粘膜 ({{{2}}}?)		 KUKI Hanzo Hatori December 20, 1999
Big Tits Tank Angels 7
乳TANKの天使たち7		 KUKI JANGO February 18, 2000
KUKI DVD Buyer Boy 01
KUKI DVD買うボーイ 01		 KUKI March 4, 2000
Stimulant: Doctor Hitomi Kobayashi
刺激療法		 KUKI Gasbel March 22, 2000
KUKI Best Collection Vol.4 KUKI April 14, 2000
KUKI DVD Buyer Boy 03
KUKI DVD買うボーイ 03		 KUKI May 2, 2000
Stimulant: Doctor Hitomi Kobayashi(3)
刺激療法女医		 KUKI May 26, 2000
Perfect Sniper
パーフェクト・スナイパー		 KUKI Gasbel VHS:June 29, 2000
DVD:July 21, 2000
CRUSH KUKI Gasbel VHS:September 29, 2000
DVD:September 29, 2000
ATLAS MEGA-MIX vol.#2
アトラスMEGA-MIX II		 Atlas21 November 17, 2000
Immoral Bonds
背徳の絆		 KUKI November 17, 2000
Hitomi Kobayashi Special: '98-'00 Complete Work
小林ひとみスペシャル		 KUKI JANGO VHS:November 17, 2000
February 23, 2001
Big Tits Tank Angels 8
乳TANKの天使たち 8		 KUKI JANGO January 18, 2001
Costume Play Royale
コスプレ　ロワイヤル		 KUKI JANGO February 16, 2001
KUKI Best Collection VOL.4
KUKI Best COLLECTIONS VOL.4		 KUKI JANGO February 23, 2001
Lesbian Wives
極妻レズ		 Alice Japan Kyoko Aizome VHS:March 16, 2001
DVD:September 21, 2001
Lesbian Love Juice
レズビアン 女汁		 Alice Japan Eitaro Haga VHS:April 13, 2001
DVD:December 7, 2001
School Teacher
女教師歔く		 MAX-A Eitaro Haga July 31, 2001
BEST 4 Hours - Hitomi Kobayashi
BEST 4時間　小林ひとみ		 Atlas21 December 27, 2001
Alice Japan 2002
アリスJAPAN2002		 Alice Japan December 27, 2001
Abnormal Privacy - Slave Secretary 37 Collect June 14, 2002
Alice Japan 2002
アリスJAPAN2002		 Alice Japan December 27, 2002
Mother In-Law SOD November 2003
Hitomi Kobayashi - BOX
小林ひとみ　BOX
FINAL disc 1&2 & Picture Booklet		 VIP Eitaro Haga December 19, 2003
Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL - Disc1: Nostalgic
小林ひとみFINAL　上巻		 VIP Eitaro Haga December 19, 2003
Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL - Disc2: Love
小林ひとみFINAL　下巻		 VIP Eitaro Haga December 19, 2003
Best of the AV QUEEN
ベスト・オブ・ザ・AVクィーン		 Atlas21 April 23, 2004
Uncut 4 Hours / Hitomi Kobayashi
ノーカット4時間！！小林ひとみ		 Alice Japan July 16, 2004
The 80's Greatest Idols TMA August 13, 2004
Slave Secretary ＥＸ 3
奴隷秘書ＥＸ３		 CineMagic Hirofumi Miyazaki
Tatsuo Hibino		 June 23, 2006

[edit] Selected theatrical releases

  • The Petting (ザ・ペッティング Za Pettingu?) (8/1986)
  • Hitomi Kobayashi's Secret Pleasure (小林ひとみ 奥戯快感　艶 Kobayashi Hitomi ougi kaikan: tsuya?) (1/6/1987)
  • Hitomi Kobayashi's Heavy Petting (ハード・ペッティング Hard Petting?) (3/28/1987)
  • Hitomi Kobayashi vs. 高杉レイ Double Petting) (小林ひとみＶＳ高杉レイ　ダブルペッティング) (7/18/1987)
  • Hitomi Kobayashi's Young Girl Story (小林ひとみの令嬢物語 Kobayashi Hitomi no reijo monogatari?) (12/19/1987)
  • Sure-Fire Death 4: We Will Avenge You (Hissatsu 4: Urami harashimasu) (1987)
  • Evil Dead Trap (死霊の罠 Shiryo no wana?) (5/14/1988)
  • Guys Who Never Learn II (1988)
  • Kyoko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition (愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ?) (2/2/2001)[46]

[edit] Selected print appearances

[edit] Goro

[edit] Heibon Punch (平凡パンチ)

[edit] Momoco

[edit] Sukora (スコラ)

[edit] Weekly Playboy

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Infobox data from: Hitomi (Hitomi Kobayashi) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-03-04. and AVチャンネル 小林ひとみ 詳細情報 (Japanese)
  2. ^ a b c 1986. AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Legs open way to 6 billion yen career", Mainichi Shimbun, December 13, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. Archived from the original on 2006-01-07. 
  4. ^ Topaz (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-19. “We cannot talk about AV without her. She is a legend of AV. She is like a founder of the AV world”
  5. ^ a b "Legs open way to 6 billion yen career", Mainichi Shimbun, December 13, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. Archived from the original on 2006-01-07. "Astounding sales of her works in the formative years of the VHS era made her the ruler of the adult video world and led to her being dubbed as the 'AV Queen.'" 
  6. ^ Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL Disc1: Nostalgic (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-19. “Here comes the final works of AV Queen Hitomi Kobayashi”
  7. ^ Hitomi Kobayashi　BOX (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-19. “...package DVD of the queen of Adult Video Hitomi Kobayashi...”
  8. ^ "Porno queen seeks investors' plug as she goes out with a bang", Mainichi Shimbun, July 18, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. Archived from the original on 2006-01-07. "Hitomi Kobayashi, long hailed as Japan's Queen of Adult Video..." 
  9. ^ a b c d e Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications, p.222. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. “...the AV Queen Hitomi Kobayashi...” 
  10. ^ a b c "Porno queen seeks investors' plug as she goes out with a bang", Mainichi Shimbun, July 18, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. Archived from the original on 2006-01-07. 
  11. ^ a b c d "Porn star blows wads pumping out final flop", Mainichi Shimbun, March 25, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. Archived from the original on 2006-01-07. 
  12. ^ a b Hitomi (Hitomi Kobayashi) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.
  13. ^ a b 小林ひとみ (Kobayashi Hitomi) (Japanese). Japanese Wikipedia. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
  14. ^ "Legs open way to 6 billion yen career", Mainichi Shimbun, December 13, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. Archived from the original on 2006-01-07. "I finally agreed to appear, but as long as the sex was only simulated. That's how my stance on never going all the way on film started." 
  15. ^ Schönherr, Johannes (December 29, 2006). Japanese AV - A Short Introduction (English). Midnight Eye. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. “...Japanese porn has the problem that no genitals can be seen in the videos. They are all hidden behind pixels...”
  16. ^ Richie, Donald [1972] (1992). "The Japanese Eroduction", A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan (in English). Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 156-169. 
  17. ^ Macias, Patrick (2001). "Nikkatsu's Roman Porno", TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion (in English). San Francisco: Cadence Books, 187-188. ISBN 1-56931-681-3. 
  18. ^ a b Firsching, Robert. Evil Dead Trap (English). All Movie Guide. Retrieved on 2007-06-05.
  19. ^ Galloway, Patrick (2006). "Evil Dead Trap: Shiryo no wana", Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand (in English). Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, p.165. ISBN 1-933330-12-0. 
  20. ^ Galloway, p.168.
  21. ^ 小林悟 (Kobayashi Satoru) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-10-09. (小林ひとみ　男狂い有閑マダム, released 1996-07-22 and 小林ひとみの快楽熟女とろける, released 1997-07-14)
  22. ^ a b 小林ひとみ (Kobayashi Hitomi) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
  23. ^ Immoral Baptism (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-19. “She made a come back in November with Love Bond...”
  24. ^ Satomi Shinozaki biography. Shin-Toho History. Retrieved on 2007-02-18. “...since the middle of '90s when mature women started getting popular in porn movies.”
  25. ^ Madame Throat (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  26. ^ Schönherr, Johannes (December 29, 2006). Japanese AV - A Short Introduction (English). Midnight Eye. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. “The majority of Japanese AVs employ elements of documentary filmmaking to some degree.”
  27. ^ Sharp, Jasper (December 29, 2006). Every Japanese Woman Makes Her Own Curry (English). Midnight Eye. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. “The similarities between the two genres [documentary and hardcore Adult Video] - the recording of real, non-simulated action with the rawness of the production a testament to its vérité nature - have been picked up on by critics numerous times before. One further documentary-inspired peculiarity of Japanese AV films is the lengthy interviews that usually precede the sex sequences...”
  28. ^ Fornander, Kjell (July 1992). A Star is Porn (English). Tokyo Journal. Archived from the original on 2006-05-16. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. “...the AV cult of amateurism... any plot is shattered when a member of the team suddenly passes in front of the camera, or when the director yells at the actress during shooting for faking an orgasm. Often the viewer witnesses the whole creative process, right up to when the makeup woman cleans up the exhausted actress and she walks into her dressing room for a shower. In other words, the documentary illusion is the story.”
  29. ^ Bornoff, Nicholas [1991] (1994). "Chapter 18 (Naked Dissent)", Pink Samurai: An Erotic Exploration of Japanese Society; The Pursuit and Politics of Sex in Japan, Paperback, London: HarperCollins, p.607. ISBN 0-586-20576-4. “...many [videos] exploit their very limitations with a conscious effort at documentary realism: the cinema-verite of pornography.” 
  30. ^ Extreme Privacy (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  31. ^ Nasty Female Teacher (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  32. ^ KUKI DVD Buyer Boy 01 (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  33. ^ Stimulant Doctor Hitomi Kobayashi (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  34. ^ Perfect Sniper (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  35. ^ CRUSH (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  36. ^ School Teacher (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  37. ^ Hitomi Kobayashi vs Hitomi Shimizu (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  38. ^ Koizumi, Shinichi (December 1, 2001). Porn-star label now a badge of honor for actress (English). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2001-12-03. Retrieved on 2007-03-03. “Kyoko Aizome is considered the first hard-core porn actress in Japan.”
  39. ^ 愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  40. ^ Bed Partner 1988 (review) (English). The New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. “...the legendary studio proper [Nikkatsu] (its stepchild, Excess Films, limped along for years thereafter...”
  41. ^ Lesbian Wives (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-19.
  42. ^ Fornander, Kjell (July 1992). A Star is Porn. Tokyo Journal. Archived from the original on 2007-03-20. Retrieved on 2007-05-12. “If she’s only out for money, she will studiously avoid publicity and quit inside a year-the average life-span of an AV girl-with five or ten videos to her credit...”
  43. ^ Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL　Disc1: Nostalgic (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  44. ^ Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL　Disc2: LOVE (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
  45. ^ Filmography from Hitomi (Hitomi Kobayashi) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-05-15., Discography (Hitomi Kobayashi) (Japanese). AV Classics On Demand. Retrieved on 2007-06-01. and Hitomi Kobayashi (Filmography). Urabon Navigator 1997-2006. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
  46. ^ Sources for Theatrical releases: Hitomi Kobayashi at the Internet Movie Database and 小林ひとみ (Kobayashi Hitomi) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
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