Yumika Hayashi | |
---|---|
Native name | 林由美香 |
Born |
Yumika Oguri June 27, 1970 Tokyo, Japan |
Died | June 28, 2005 | (aged 35)
Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) |
Yumika Hayashi (Japanese: 林由美香? Hepburn: Hayashi Yumika, June 27, 1970 – June 28, 2005) was a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career in which she starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films. Hayashi was also a prominent pink film actress; she was the subject of a 1997 documentary and the recipient of the Best Actress award at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony in 2004 as well as receiving the Special Career Award the following year. Her death on June 28, 2005, one day after her 35th birthday, ended one of the longest careers in the AV field and made front-page news in Tokyo. Following her death, Hayashi was awarded a second Special Career Award at the 2006 Pink Grand Prix ceremony and became the subject of several theatrical retrospectives and a 382-page biography.
Yumika Hayashi was born Yumika Oguri (小栗 由美香? Oguri Yumika) in Tokyo on June 27, 1970. Her parents divorced when she was in 5th grade, elementary school, and Hayashi was on her own by the time she was in high school. Hayashi's mother managed a popular ramen chain.
Hayashi made her adult video debut in the bishōjo genre with the June 1989 h.m.p. Miss Christine release, Shigamitsuku 18-sai: ojōsama wa shitanai (しがみつく18歳 お嬢様はしたない?). She made her pink film debut the same year, and her starring debut with the Xces studio release, Double Rape to Break in a Perverted Wild Filly (ダブルレイプ 変態調教?) in October 1990. She became one of the most popular AV Actresses of the 1990s. Several of her early videos were for the V&R Planning studio under the direction of Company Matsuo who was also her lover.