Hitomi Kobayashi

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nihongo|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. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KDV024|title="Topaz"|accessdate=2007-05-19|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English|quote=We cannot talk about AV without her. She is a legend of AV. She is like a founder of the AV world] "Mainichi Shimbun" calls her "one of the icons of Japanese adult cinema history." Her unprecedented popularity in the mid-1980s, the early days of the Japanese AV, earned her the title "Queen of AV."cite news |title=Legs open way to 6 billion yen career|url=http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/12/20031213p2g00m0dm999000c.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060107142509/http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/12/20031213p2g00m0dm999000c.html|publisher=Mainichi Shimbun|date=December 13, 2003|archivedate=2006-01-07|accessdate=2007-10-09|quote=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.'] [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=VIP217|title="Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL Disc1: Nostalgic"|accessdate=2007-05-19|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English|quote=Here comes the final works of AV Queen Hitomi Kobayashi] [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=VIPD226|title="Hitomi Kobayashi　BOX"|accessdate=2007-05-19|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English|quote=...package DVD of the queen of Adult Video Hitomi Kobayashi...] [cite news |title=Porno queen seeks investors' plug as she goes out with a bang|url=http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/07/20030718p2g00m0dm999000c.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060107135116/http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/07/20030718p2g00m0dm999000c.html|publisher=Mainichi Shimbun|archivedate=2006-01-07|date=July 18, 2003|accessdate=2007-10-09|quote=Hitomi Kobayashi, long hailed as Japan's Queen of Adult Video...] cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|coauthors=Yuko Mihara Weisser|title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=p.222|quote=...the AV Queen Hitomi Kobayashi...] According to an adult entertainment reporter for "Shukan Shincho", "She laid the foundations for the golden age of adult video."cite news |title=Porno queen seeks investors' plug as she goes out with a bang|url=http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/07/20030718p2g00m0dm999000c.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060107135116/http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/07/20030718p2g00m0dm999000c.html|publisher=Mainichi Shimbun|archivedate=2006-01-07|date=July 18, 2003|accessdate=2007-10-09]

After making her debut as a non-pornographic photobook and "image video" model, Kobayashi entered the AV field in 1986. 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. 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.cite news |title=Porn star blows wads pumping out final flop|url=http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2004/03/20040325p2g00m0dm999000c.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060107143734/http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2004/03/20040325p2g00m0dm999000c.html|publisher=Mainichi Shimbun|date=March 25, 2004|archivedate=2006-01-07|accessdate=2007-10-09]

Life and career

Early life

According to her official profile, Hitomi Kobayashi was born nihongo|Yukari Ishii|石井ゆかり|Ishii Yukari in Tokyo on September 2, 1965.cite web |url=http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=408|title=Hitomi (Hitomi Kobayashi)|accessdate=2007-03-04|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] However, in an interview in the nihongo|"Weekly Post"|週刊ポスト just before her retirement in 2003, she confessed to have actually been born in 1963.cite web |url=http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/小林ひとみ|title=nihongo2|小林ひとみ (Kobayashi Hitomi)|accessdate=2007-03-19|publisher=Japanese Wikipedia|language=Japanese] Her ambition since childhood was to be an actress. She attended acting school, and registered with a talent agency. 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."

This relative sexual conservatism extended into her AV career. The sex scenes in all but her final video were simulated. [cite news |title=Legs open way to 6 billion yen career|url=http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/12/20031213p2g00m0dm999000c.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060107142509/http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/12/20031213p2g00m0dm999000c.html|publisher=Mainichi Shimbun|date=December 13, 2003|archivedate=2006-01-07|accessdate=2007-10-09|quote=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.] 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."

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

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." 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. 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."

Japan's censorship laws prevent the display of the sexual organs, [cite web |last=Schönherr|first=Johannes|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/features/company-matsuo-and-the-world-of-japanese-adult-video.shtml|title=Japanese AV - A Short Introduction|date=December 29, 2006|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://www.midnighteye.com Midnight Eye] |language=English|quote=...Japanese porn has the problem that no genitals can be seen in the videos. They are all hidden behind pixels...] 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."

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.

Theatrical career

By 1987, Kobayashi's popularity had already earned her the title "Queen of AV". 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, nihongo|"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." The second, nihongo|"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." [cite book |last=Richie|first=Donald|title=A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan|origyear=1972|year=1992|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|location=Berkeley, California|language=English|isbn= |pages=156-169|chapter=The Japanese Eroduction] 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. The third in this series, nihongo|"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, but by now it was too late for the studio. It would cease production of "Roman Porno" in 1988, and declare bankruptcy in 1993. [cite book |last=Macias|first=Patrick|title=TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion|year=2001|publisher=Cadence Books|location=San Francisco|language=English|isbn=1-56931-681-3|pages=187-188|chapter=Nikkatsu's Roman Porno] At the height of her popularity, in 1987, Kobayashi married Toshifumi Yuzawa, who would later become the president of Kobayashi's talent agency. 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. In 1988 she had a major role in the mainstream nihongo|"Evil Dead Trap"|死霊の罠 |Shiryo no wana. Allmovie describes the film as a "sickening but riveting slasher,"cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:161835|first=Robert|last=Firsching|title="Evil Dead Trap"|accessdate=2007-06-05|publisher=Allmovie|language=English] 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." [cite book |last=Galloway|first=Patrick|title=Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand|year=2006|publisher=Stone Bridge Press|location=Berkeley, Calif.|language=English|isbn=1-933330-12-0|pages=p.165|chapter=Evil Dead Tr
] Written by Takashi Ishii and directed by Toshiharu Ikeda, the film inspired two sequels. 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). [Galloway, p.168.] 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". [cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0181230.htm|title=nihongo2|小林悟 (Kobayashi Satoru)|accessdate=2007-10-09|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database| (nihongo2|小林ひとみ　男狂い有閑マダム, released 1996-07-22 and nihongo2|小林ひとみの快楽熟女とろける, released 1997-07-14)] In 1997 she played the somewhat autobiographical role of fictional AV actress Mizuki Mahoro in the 1997 V-cinema film nihongo|"Destroying Mosaic"|モザイク崩し.cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0180630.htm|title=nihongo2|小林ひとみ (Kobayashi Hitomi)|accessdate=2007-03-19|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database] Kobayashi's official return to the AV industry was in the November 1998 video "Love Bond" or "Immoral Bonds". [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KT360|title="Immoral Baptism"|accessdate=2007-05-19|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English|quote=She made a come back in November with "Love Bond"...]

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. [cite web |url=http://xxx.xcity.jp/SHIN-TOHO/HISTORY/S_SHINOZAKI/index.html|title=Satomi Shinozaki biography|accessdate=2007-02-18|publisher= [http://xxx.xcity.jp/SHIN-TOHO/HISTORY/ Shin-Toho History] |quote=...since the middle of '90s when mature women started getting popular in porn movies.] 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. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=VKD111|title="Madame Throat"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English]

Her first video in the popular "documentary" genre of AVs [cite web |last=Schönherr|first=Johannes|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/features/company-matsuo-and-the-world-of-japanese-adult-video.shtml|title=Japanese AV - A Short Introduction|date=December 29, 2006|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://www.midnighteye.com Midnight Eye] |language=English|quote=The majority of Japanese AVs employ elements of documentary filmmaking to some degree.] [cite web |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|url=http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/round-up_005.shtml|title=Every Japanese Woman Makes Her Own Curry|date=December 29, 2006|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://www.midnighteye.com Midnight Eye] |language=English|quote=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...] [cite web |url=http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/pornborn.html|title=A Star is Porn|accessdate=2007-05-31|last=Fornander|first=Kjell|year=1992|month=July|publisher= [http://www.tokyo.to/ Tokyo Journal] |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060516235928/http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/pornborn.html|archivedate=2006-05-16|language=English|quote=...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.] [cite book |last=Bornoff|first=Nicholas|title=Pink Samurai: An Erotic Exploration of Japanese Society; The Pursuit and Politics of Sex in Japan|origyear=1991|edition=Paperback|year=1994|publisher=HarperCollins|location=London|isbn=0-586-20576-4|pages=p.607|chapter=Chapter 18 (Naked Dissent)|quote=...many [videos] exploit their very limitations with a conscious effort at documentary realism: the cinema-verite of pornography.] was "Extreme Privacy" of September 1999. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KT397|title="Extreme Privacy"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] 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. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KT413|title="Nasty Female Teacher"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English]

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". [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KRM050|title="KUKI DVD Buyer Boy 01"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] 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". [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KT431|title="Stimulant Doctor Hitomi Kobayashi"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] Other post-come-back videos had her playing a spy, [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KT453|title="Perfect Sniper"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] an angel, [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KT461|title="CRUSH"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] a seductive school teacher, [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=XS2234|title="School Teacher"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] and a housewife with a secret lesbian past. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KR9146|title="Hitomi Kobayashi vs Hitomi Shimizu"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English]

Kobayashi teamed up with Japan's first hardcore pornographic actress, Kyoko Aizome, [cite web |url=http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2001120100409.html|title=Porn-star label now a badge of honor for actress|accessdate=2007-03-03|last=Koizumi|first=Shinichi|date=December 1, 2001|publisher=Asahi Shimbun|language=English|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20011203120520/http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2001120100409.html|archivedate=2001-12-03|quote=Kyoko Aizome is considered the first hard-core porn actress in Japan.] in the February 2001 theatrical release, nihongo|"Kyoko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition"|愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ. Aizome both starred in and directed the film, which was released by Nikkatsu's post-"Roman porn" distributor of theatrical pornography, Excess films. [cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2001/dy000370.htm|title=nihongo2|愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ|accessdate=2007-05-31|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database] [cite web |url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=249637|title=Bed Partner 1988 (review)|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher=The New York Times|language=English|quote=...the legendary studio proper [Nikkatsu] (its stepchild, Excess Films, limped along for years thereafter...] 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. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=KR9144|title="Lesbian Wives"|accessdate=2007-05-19|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] The same year, Kobayashi and her husband opened a nightclub in Roppongi.

"Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL"

In an industry in which the average career spans only a year and produces five to ten videos, [cite web |url=http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/pornborn.html|title=A Star is Porn|accessdate=2007-05-12|last=Fornander|first=Kjell|year=1992|month=July|publisher= [http://www.tokyo.to/ Tokyo Journal] |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060516235928/http://www2.gol.com/users/coynerhm/pornborn.html|archivedate=2007-03-20|quote=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...] by 2003, Kobayashi had worked in the AV field for over a decade and a half and appeared in about 70 films. The 39 AVs in which she had starred had sold over 600,000 copies, earning about 6 billion yen. 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."

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. The video was released in two volumes as "Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL - Disc1" (December 19, 2003) and "Disc2" (December 31, 2003). The first half of the work was subtitled "Nostalgic", and contained highlights from videos made during the early part of her career. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=VIPD224|title="Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL　Disc1: Nostalgic"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] The second volume of the set, subtitled "Love", was promoted as containing Kobayashi's first and last on-screen real sex scene. [cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=VIPD225|title="Hitomi Kobayashi FINAL　Disc2: LOVE"|accessdate=2007-05-31|publisher= [http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory] |language=English] 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. In 2004, Kobayashi was reported working as a hostess at her nightclub in Roppongi.

Filmography

Videos

elected theatrical releases

* (8/1986)
* (1/6/1987)
* (3/28/1987)
* "Hitomi Kobayashi vs. nihongo2|高杉レイ Double Petting) (nihongo2|小林ひとみＶＳ高杉レイ　ダブルペッティング) (7/18/1987)
* (12/19/1987)
* "Sure-Fire Death 4: We Will Avenge You" ("Hissatsu 4: Urami harashimasu") (1987)
* (5/14/1988)
* "Guys Who Never Learn II" (1988)
* (2/2/2001) [Sources for Theatrical releases: imdb name|id=0997246|name=Hitomi Kobayashi "and" cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0180630.htm|title=nihongo2|小林ひとみ (Kobayashi Hitomi)|accessdate=2007-03-19|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database]

elected print appearances

"Goro"

* January 8, 1987 [Print appearances from:
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* April 23, 1987
* June 11, 1987
* June, 1987 "Big Goro"

"Heibon Punch" (平凡パンチ)

* March 17, 1986 (as Kaori Matsumoto)
* August 25, 1986 (4 pages)
* October 6, 1986 (2 pages)
* December 29, 1986 (4 pages)
* February 19, 1987 (5 pages)
* April 16, 1987 (5 pages)
* July 16, 1987 (4 pages)
* August 27, 1987 (6 pages)
* October 10, 1987 (6 pages)
* December 31, 1987 (5 pages)
* March 24, 1988
* April 28, 1988 (4 pages)

"Momoco"

* January 31, 1987 (5 pages)

"Sukora" (スコラ)

* October 23, 1986 (5 pages)
* January 1, 1987 (6 pages)
* February 12 1987 (7 pages)
* March 12, 1987 (2 pages)
* May 14, 1987 (6 pages)
* August 13, 1987 (5 pages)
* October 22, 1987 (7 pages)
* January 28, 1988 (5 pages)
* January 1, 1991

"Weekly Playboy" (週刊プレイボーイ)

* August 12, 1986 (1 page)
* November 18, 1986 (5 pages)
* February 10, 1987 (Pinup)
* March 24, 1987 (6 pages)
* May 12, 1987 (4 pages)
* July 14, 1987 (Pinup)
* August 4, 1987
* October 20, 1987 (1 page)
* January 12, 1988 (3 pages)
* June 2, 1992

Notes

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* ("Adaruto na Hitobito"/"Adult" People|year=1992|publisher=Kodansha|location=Tokyo|isbn=4-06-205546-5|pages=pp.83,96-97|language=Japanese
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* (Kobayashi Hitomi)|accessdate=2007-03-04|language=Japanese|publisher=Filmography at Japanese Movie Database
* - Kobayashi Hitomi|accessdate=2007-03-04|publisher=Profile at [http://i-dic.dorachan.com/ 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary)] |language=Japanese
* (Kobayashi Hitomi - Moodyz profile and filmography)|accessdate=2008-03-20|publisher=Moodyz|language=Japanese
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