, born August 8, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol

Japanese idol

In Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...

 and adult video actress.

Life and career

Azumi Kawashima was born in Tokyo on August 8, 1979. Her debut video was Promise released under the Try-Heart Corporation's Sexia's label in December 1998. In January 1999, Kawashima starred in Naive, for the Shy label. Her next video for Sexia, I Want To Hold You (February 1999), was a sex-oriented drama. She was back at Shy for the April 1999 release, Natural.

Kawashima performed in the seventh volume of Sexia's Pretty Wife series, subtitled Dangerous Love Triangle and released in May 1999. Kawashima's last releases, a video entitled Memory, and a DVD named Complete Azumi Kawashima, came out in July 2003.

In addition to her video career, Kawashima's portfolio includes the release of 9 photobooks released from 1999 to 2003. Outside of her adult work, Kawashima also had a major part in the 1999 V-Cinema

V-Cinema

Japanese is the direct-to-video industry that appeared in Japan in the 1980s. The term is a trademark of Toei Company but is widely used in the West to describe any Japanese direct-to-video release. In Japan the term used is...

 horror film Demon Killer or Junreiki 殉霊鬼(じゅんれいき) directed by Seki Akitsugu where six men and women staying at a villa are attacked by a killer.

Selected filmography

Video title	Company	Director	Release date
Promise/Appointment	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-081	Greate Kazu	December 18, 1998
Naive	Shy FE-409	Takehiro Yasuda	January 31, 1999
I Want To Hold You	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-092	Shion Kageura	February 26, 1999
Genuine"/"Purity	Shy FE-418	Kunihiro Hasegawa Kunihiro Hasegawa is a Japanese adult video director who has helmed more than 200 videos during his long career.-Life and career:Hasegawa began directing adult videos at least as early as June 1987 with , starring actress Keiko Nakazawa, for V&R Planning, a studio which had been founded just the year before by...	March 23, 1999
Natural	Shy FE-425	Hitoshi Mochinaga	April 30, 1999
Pretty Wife 7, Dangerous Love Triangle	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-105	Makoto Nimekoji	May 21, 1999
Memories	Shy FE-433	Hitoshi Mochinaga	June 18, 1999
Azu-mi-x Compilation with some new material	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-121	Futoshi Sakura	August 14, 1999
SEXIA COLLECTION 1999 1999 With Haruna Miwa, Kaori Shimizu, Mika Sanada & Ryo Aihara	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-143	Ebisu The Great	December 10, 1999
ALL STARS: Erotic Lips Selection Compilation with other actresses	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-153	Ebisu The Great	February 18, 2000
Last Kiss	Sexia/Kasakura KAN-014		May 19, 2000
10th. Anniversary The SHY History M&A With Momo Aida	Shy FEDX-009		June 26, 2000
Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography Compilation video	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-185	Goody	September 22, 2000
Forever	Shy FEDV-048		March 3, 2001
Pretty Wife Remix With Izumi Morino, Konomi Katori, Ryo Aihara, Yuka Asato & Yuuna Miyazawa	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-215		May 31, 2001
Return	Shy FE-622		September 27, 2001
OFFSIDE: The Best Selection Compilation with 15 other actresses	Raising Company/Off Side OSD-060		December 12, 2001
Complete Azumi Kawashima	Raising Company/Off Side OSD-108		July 10, 2003
Memory: Azumi Kawashima	Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-332	Mark Spell	July 19, 2003