# Azumi Kawashima

Azumi Kawashima (Japanese: 川島和津実, Hepburn: Kawashima Azumi, Born August 8, 1979) is a Japanese idol and Pornographic film actress (or adult video idol)
Kawashima was known as gravure princess when she began a career in the pornographic film industry in December 1998 She is one of the most prominent AV Idols around May 1999 and "the number 1 adult video idol starting in August

## Biography and career

Kawashima was born on 8 August 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. She likes to walk and swim. She becameone of the favorite actresses among fans of pornographic videos, mainly because of "her classic, elegant and distinguished beauty". She does not film extreme pornography or other similar videos. Hwe first film, Promise, was released in December 1998 under the brand Try-Heart Corporation's Sexia. In January 1999, Kawashima was the lead in Naive, a video released by Shy. Her next film for Sexia titled I Want To Hold You (February 1999) was a sex drama Return to Shy for Natural published in April 1999. This video, judged to be well performed with strong sex scenes, features bandits and a plot hatched for an assassination.
Kawashima succeeded the popular Haruki Mizuno in the series Pretty Wife published by Sexia. She made her entrance in the seventh episode, Dangerous Love Triangle, published in May 1999, playing the role of a victim of her evil stepmother. The latter, hoping to remove her son from the influence of his wife who she thinks is demoralizing, hires the services of two men to rape her. She believes that her son's witnessing the scene will lead him to divorce. The video ends with the mother-in-law waking up and realizing that it was all just a dream, which she nevertheless takes for a message ordering her to leave her son's house. ActionJAV rates this video as Another great action packed movie performed by the legendary Azumi Kawashima
Less than a year after Kawashima's debut, her popularity prompted Sexia to release a retrospective video, Azu-mi-x, which contains scenes taken from her first video alongside new ones All Stars: Erotic Lips Selection, a video by Sexia published in February 2000, brings together several actresses. Kawashima rubs shoulders with her former colleague from Pretty Wife Haruki Mizuno A second retrospective entitled Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography was released in September 2000 in a collector's edition Memory followed by Complete Azumi Kawashima, released in July 2003, will be Kawashima's last videos.
In addition to her filmography, Kawaqshima posed for nine photo albums published between 1999 and 2003. and shot for the V-cinema a horror film Demon Killer or Junreiki 殉霊鬼(じゅんれいき) directed by Seki Akitsugu in which six men and women occupying a villa are attacked by a killer.

## Filmography (selective)

| Video title | Producer Identification code | Director | Release |
| Promise/Appointment 約束 | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-081 | Greate Kazu | 18 December 1998 |
| Naive 純真 | Shy シャイ企画 FE-409 | Takehiro Yasuda | 31 January 1999 |
| I Want To Hold You 抱きしめたい | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-092 | Shion Kageura | 26 February 1999 |
| Genuine"/"Purity 生粋 | Shy FE-418 | Kunihiro Hasegawa | 23 March 1999 |
| Natural | Shy FE-425 | Hitoshi Mochinaga | 30 April 1999 |
| Pretty Wife 7, Dangerous Love Triangle プリティワイフ7 あぶない三角関係 | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-105 | Makoto Nimekoji | 21 May 1999 |
| Memories | Shy FE-433 | Hitoshi Mochinaga | 18 June 1999 |
| Azu-mi-x あづ・みっ・くす Compilation associée à quelques nouvelles scènes | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-121 | Futoshi Sakura | 14 August 1999 |
| Sexia Collection 1999 セクシアコレクション 1999 Avec Haruna Miwa, Kaori Shimizu, Mika Sanada & Ryo Aihara | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-143 | Ebisu The Great | 10 December 1999 |
| All Stars: Erotic Lips Selection Compilation avec d'autres actrices | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-153 | Ebisu The Great | 18 February 2000 |
| Last Kiss | Sexia/Kasakura KAN-014 | | 19 May 2000 |
| 10th. Anniversary The SHY History M&A Avec Momo Aida | Shy FEDX-009 | | 26 June 2000 |
| Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography Compilation video | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-185 | Goody | 22 September 2000 |
| Forever | Shy FEDV-048 | | 3 March 2001 |
| Pretty Wife Remix プリティワイフ Re-mix Avec Izumi Morino, Konomi Katori, Ryo Aihara, Yuka Asato & Yuuna Miyazawa | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-215 | | 31 May 2001 |
| Return | Shy FE-622 | | 27 September 2001 |
| OFFSIDE: The Best Selection Compilation avec 15 autres actrices | Raising Company/Off Side OSD-060 | | 12 December 2001 |
| Complete Azumi Kawashima コンプリート 川島和津実 | Raising Company/Off Side OSD-108 | | 10 July 2003 |
| Memory: Azumi Kawashima 記憶 川島和津実 | Try-Heart/Sexia SEA-332 | Mark Spell | 19 July 2003 |