Naoko Iijima | |
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Native name | 飯島直子 |
Born |
Kōhoku-ku, Japan |
February 29, 1968
Occupation | Actress |
Naoko Iijima (飯島直子 Iijima Naoko?) is a Japanese television and film actress and a former gravure idol who was born on February 29, 1968 in Kōhoku-ku, a ward of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Iijima began her entertainment career in 1988 on the late night Japanese TV show 11 PM, followed by a number of appearances in commercials and as a Race Queen. An early cinema role was the December 1990 straight-to-video V-cinema drama Strawberry Times 4: Kisaragi San Shimai no Gyakushū (ストロベリータイムス4 如月三姉妹の逆襲?) which also starred Risa Tachibana and Mari Ayukawa. The next year, she was featured in the comedy Funky Monkey Teacher (ファンキー・モンキー・ティーチャー Fanki Monkī Tīchā?) which was released to theaters by the Toei Company in December 1991. Over the next four years, Iijima starred in more than a dozen V-cinema productions as well as posing for gravure (non-nude) photobooks and performing in gravure videos.