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'''Azumi Kawashima''' (川島和津実, Kawashima Azumi), born August 8 [[1979]] in [[Tokyo]], Japan, is a [[Japanese idol]] and [[AV idol]]. Referred to by the AV industry as a "legendary beauty,"<ref name="Complete Azumi Kawashima">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=OSD108|title=Complete Azumi Kawashima|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> Kawashima was already known as a "gravure princess" at the time of her AV debut in December of 1998.<ref name="PROMISE">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA081|title=PROMISE|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> By May, 1999 she was called one of the most popular AV idols,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA105|title=Pretty Wife 7|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> and "the number one AV idol" by August of that year.<ref name="Azu-mi-x">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA121|title=Azu-mi-x|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref><ref name="Azu-mi-x II">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA185|title=Azu-mi-x II|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref>
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'''Azumi Kawashima''' ([http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/川島和津実 川島和津実]- ''Kawashima Azumi''), born August 8 [[1979]] in Tokyo, [[Japan]], is a Japanese [[idol]] and AV [[idol]]. Referred to by the AV industry as a "legendary beauty,"<ref name="Complete Azumi Kawashima">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=OSD108|title=Complete Azumi Kawashima|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> Kawashima was already known as a "gravure princess" at the time of her AV debut in December of 1998.<ref name="PROMISE">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA081|title=PROMISE|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> By May, 1999 she was called one of the most popular AV idols,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA105|title=Pretty Wife 7|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> and "the number one AV idol" by August of that year.<ref name="Azu-mi-x">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA121|title=Azu-mi-x|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref><ref name="Azu-mi-x II">{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA185|title=Azu-mi-x II|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref>


==Life and career==
==Life and career==
Azumi Kawashima was born in Tokyo on August 8, [[1979]], and enjoys swimming and walking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=589|title=Azumi (Kawashima Azumi)|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> She became a favorite among fans of the Japanese AV principally because her "classical elegant beauty", as her appearances are not as extreme or hardcore as many other such videos.<ref name="actionjav">{{cite web |url=http://www.actionjav.com/model.cfm?actress_filename=azumi_kawashima|title=Azumi Kawashima|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://www.actionjav.com/ www.actionjav.com]|language=English}}</ref> Kawashima's debut video was ''Promise'' released under Sexia's Try Heart label in December 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/kurokami/years/years_1998.htm|title=1998|accessdate=2007-07-21|publisher=[http://homepage3.nifty.com/kurokami/index.html AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory)]}}</ref><ref name="PROMISE"> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA092|title=I Want To Hold You|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> She was back at Shy for the April 1999 release, ''Natural''. This video was judged a well-acted drama with great sex scenes, involving gangsters and an assassination plot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.actionjav.com/title.cfm?iid=1116|title=Natural|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://www.actionjav.com/ www.actionjav.com]|language=English}}</ref>
[[Image:Azumi_Kawashima2.jpg|200px|left]]
Azumi Kawashima was born in Tokyo on August 8, [[1979]], and enjoys swimming and walking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=589|title=Azumi (Kawashima Azumi)|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> She became a favorite among fans of the Japanese AV principally because her "classical elegant beauty", as her appearances are not as extreme or hardcore as many other such videos.<ref name="actionjav">{{cite web |url=http://www.actionjav.com/model.cfm?actress_filename=azumi_kawashima|title=Azumi Kawashima|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://www.actionjav.com/ www.actionjav.com]|language=English}}</ref> Kawashima's debut video was ''Promise'' released under Sexia's Try Heart label in December 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/kurokami/years/years_1998.htm|title=1998|accessdate=2007-07-21|publisher=[http://homepage3.nifty.com/kurokami/index.html AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory)]}}</ref><ref name="PROMISE" /> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA092|title=I Want To Hold You|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> She was back at Shy for the April 1999 release, ''Natural''. This video was judged a well-acted drama with great sex scenes, involving gangsters and an assassination plot.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.actionjav.com/title.cfm?iid=1116|title=Natural|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://www.actionjav.com/ www.actionjav.com]|language=English}}</ref>
[[Image:Azumi_Kawashima4.jpg|200px|right]]


Kawashima followed popular AV idol [[Haruki Mizuno]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA050|title=''Pretty Wife 4''|accessdate=2007-06-23|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> in Sexia's ''Pretty Wife'' series. Kawashima's entry, the seventh in the series, was subtitled ''Dangerous Love Triangle'' and released in May of 1999. She played the role of a woman who is the victim of her wicked mother-in-law. Hoping to save her son from what she believes to be his wife's demoralizing influence, the mother hires two men to rape her. She hopes that if her son witnesses his wife having sex with other men, he will then divorce her. Instead, the entire group join up to scold the mother for being too controlling. The video ends with the mother awakening, discovering it's all been a dream, and taking it as a message to leave her son's house. ActionJAV judges this video "Another great action packed movie performed by the legendary Azumi Kawa<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.actionjav.com/title.cfm?iid=2058|title=Pretty Wife 7|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://www.actionjav.com/ www.actionjav.com]|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA105|title=Pretty Wife 7|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref>
Kawashima followed popular AV idol [[Haruki Mizuno]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA050|title=''Pretty Wife 4''|accessdate=2007-06-23|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> in Sexia's ''Pretty Wife'' series. Kawashima's entry, the seventh in the series, was subtitled ''Dangerous Love Triangle'' and released in May of 1999. She played the role of a woman who is the victim of her wicked mother-in-law. Hoping to save her son from what she believes to be his wife's demoralizing influence, the mother hires two men to rape her. She hopes that if her son witnesses his wife having sex with other men, he will then divorce her. Instead, the entire group join up to scold the mother for being too controlling. The video ends with the mother awakening, discovering it's all been a dream, and taking it as a message to leave her son's house. ActionJAV judges this video "Another great action packed movie performed by the legendary Azumi Kawa<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.actionjav.com/title.cfm?iid=2058|title=Pretty Wife 7|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://www.actionjav.com/ www.actionjav.com]|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA105|title=Pretty Wife 7|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref>


Less than a year after her debut, Kawashima's popularity prompted Sexia to release a retrospective video, ''Azu-mi-x'', which included scenes from her first video as well as new material.<ref name="Azu-mi-x"> Sexia's February 2000 multi-star video, ''ALL STARS: Erotic Lips Selection'', had Kawashima on the same tape as fellow ''Pretty Wife'' veteran, Haruki Mizuno.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA153|title=ALL STARS|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> A second retrospective video, ''Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography'', was released in September 2000 in a "permanent collector's edition".<ref name="Azu-mi-x II"> Kawashima's last releases, a video entitled ''Memory'', and a DVD named ''Complete Azumi Kawashima'', came out in July 2003.<ref name="Complete Azumi Kawashima"><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA332|title=Memory: Azumi Kawashima|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> In addition to her video career, Kawashima's portfolio includes the release of 4 photobooks.
Less than a year after her debut, Kawashima's popularity prompted Sexia to release a retrospective video, ''Azu-mi-x'', which included scenes from her first video as well as new material.<ref name="Azu-mi-x" /> Sexia's February 2000 multi-star video, ''ALL STARS: Erotic Lips Selection'', had Kawashima on the same tape as fellow ''Pretty Wife'' veteran, Haruki Mizuno.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA153|title=ALL STARS|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> A second retrospective video, ''Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography'', was released in September 2000 in a "permanent collector's edition".<ref name="Azu-mi-x II" /> Kawashima's last releases, a video entitled ''Memory'', and a DVD named ''Complete Azumi Kawashima'', came out in July 2003.<ref name="Complete Azumi Kawashima" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://vinfo.xcity.jp/english/info.html?ID=SEA332|title=Memory: Azumi Kawashima|accessdate=2007-07-29|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}}</ref> In addition to her video career, Kawashima's portfolio includes the release of 4 photobooks.


== Selected filmography ==
== Selected filmography <ref>Filmography from {{cite web |url=http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=589|title=Azumi (Kawashima Azumi)|accessdate=2007-06-19|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}} ''and'' {{cite web |url=http://avidol.xcity.jp/japan/info.html?aid=589|title=川島和津実 (Kawashima Azumi)|accessdate=2007-06-18|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/japan/index.html AV Idol Directory]z|language=Japanese}} ''and'' {{cite web |url=http://jans-web.com/profiles/n0438&mode=movies|title=Azumi Kawashima (Filmography) |accessdate=2007-08-08|publisher=[http://jans-web.com/ Urabon Navigator 1997-2006]|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070620050111/http://jans-web.com/profiles/n0438&mode=movies|archivedate=2007-06-20}}</ref>==
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Video title<ref>Filmography from {{cite web |url=http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=589|title=Azumi (Kawashima Azumi)|accessdate=2007-06-19|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/index.html AV Idol Directory]|language=English}} ''and'' {{cite web |url=http://avidol.xcity.jp/japan/info.html?aid=589|title=川島和津実 (Kawashima Azumi)|accessdate=2007-06-18|publisher=[http://avidol.xcity.jp/japan/index.html AV Idol Directory]z|language=Japanese}} ''and'' {{cite web |url=http://jans-web.com/profiles/n0438&mode=movies|title=Azumi Kawashima (Filmography) |accessdate=2007-08-08|publisher=[http://jans-web.com/ Urabon Navigator 1997-2006]}}</ref>
! Video title
! Company
! Company
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| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Greate Kazu
| <!-- Director-->Greate Kazu
| <!-- Released-->[[18 December]] [[1998]]
| <!-- Released-->18 December 1998
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Naive''<br>純真
| <!-- Film -->''Naive''<br>純真
| <!-- Company-->Shy<br>シャイ企画
| <!-- Company-->Shy<br>シャイ企画
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[31 January]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->31 January 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''I Want To Hold You''<br>抱きしめたい
| <!-- Film -->''I Want To Hold You''<br>抱きしめたい
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Shion Kageura
| <!-- Director-->Shion Kageura
| <!-- Released-->[[26 February]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->26 February 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Genuine''<br>生粋
| <!-- Film -->''Genuine''<br>生粋
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[23 March]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->23 March 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Natural''
| <!-- Film -->''Natural''
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[30 April]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->30 April 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Pretty Wife 7''<br>プリティワイフ7
| <!-- Film -->''Pretty Wife 7''<br>プリティワイフ7
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Makoto Nimekoji
| <!-- Director-->Makoto Nimekoji
| <!-- Released-->[[21 May]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->21 May 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Memories''
| <!-- Film -->''Memories''
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[18 June]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->18 June 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Azu-mi-x''
| <!-- Film -->''Azu-mi-x''
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Futoshi Sakura
| <!-- Director-->Futoshi Sakura
| <!-- Released-->[[14 August]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->14 August 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''SEXIA COLLECTION 1999''<br>セクシアコレクション1999
| <!-- Film -->''SEXIA COLLECTION 1999''<br>セクシアコレクション1999
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Ebisu The Great
| <!-- Director-->Ebisu The Great
| <!-- Released-->[[10 December]] [[1999]]
| <!-- Released-->10 December 1999
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Erotic Lips Selection''<br>
| <!-- Film -->''Erotic Lips Selection''<br>
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Ebisu The Great
| <!-- Director-->Ebisu The Great
| <!-- Released-->[[18 February]] [[2000]]
| <!-- Released-->18 February 2000
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Last Kiss''
| <!-- Film -->''Last Kiss''
| <!-- Company-->Sexia
| <!-- Company-->Sexia
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[19 May]] [[2000]]
| <!-- Released-->19 May 2000
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography''
| <!-- Film -->''Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography''
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Goody
| <!-- Director-->Goody
| <!-- Released-->[[22 September]] [[2000]]
| <!-- Released-->22 September 2000
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''OFFSIDE: The Best Selection''
| <!-- Film -->''OFFSIDE: The Best Selection''
| <!-- Company-->Raising Company
| <!-- Company-->Raising Company
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[12 December]] [[2001]]
| <!-- Released-->12 December 2001
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Forever''
| <!-- Film -->''Forever''
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[3 March]] [[2001]]
| <!-- Released-->3 March 2001
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Return''
| <!-- Film -->''Return''
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Company-->Shy
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[27 September]] [[2001]]
| <!-- Released-->27 September 2001
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Complete Azumi Kawashima''<br>コンプリート 川島和津実
| <!-- Film -->''Complete Azumi Kawashima''<br>コンプリート 川島和津実
| <!-- Company-->Raising Company
| <!-- Company-->Raising Company
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Released-->[[10 July]] [[2003]]
| <!-- Released-->10 July 2003
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Memory: Azumi Kawashima''<br>記憶 川島和津実
| <!-- Film -->''Memory: Azumi Kawashima''<br>記憶 川島和津実
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Company-->Sexia/Try Heart
| <!-- Director-->Mark Spell
| <!-- Director-->Mark Spell
| <!-- Released-->[[19 July]] [[2003]]
| <!-- Released-->19 July 2003
|-
|-
| <!-- Film -->''Pretty and Pliable''<ref name="actionjav"/>
| <!-- Film -->''Pretty and Pliable''<ref name="actionjav"/>
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* {{cite web |url=http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?kwsadm00|title=川島 和津実 - Kawashima Adumi|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://i-dic.dorachan.com/ 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary)]|language=Japanese}}
* {{cite web |url=http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?kwsadm00|title=川島 和津実 - Kawashima Adumi|accessdate=2007-06-13|publisher=[http://i-dic.dorachan.com/ 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary)]|language=Japanese}}


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Azumi Kawashima (川島和津実- Kawashima Azumi), born August 8 1979 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol and AV idol. Referred to by the AV industry as a "legendary beauty,"[2] Kawashima was already known as a "gravure princess" at the time of her AV debut in December of 1998.[3] By May, 1999 she was called one of the most popular AV idols,[4] and "the number one AV idol" by August of that year.[5][6]

Life and career

Azumi Kawashima was born in Tokyo on August 8, 1979, and enjoys swimming and walking.[7] She became a favorite among fans of the Japanese AV principally because her "classical elegant beauty", as her appearances are not as extreme or hardcore as many other such videos.[8] Kawashima's debut video was Promise released under Sexia's Try Heart label in December 1998.[9][3] 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.[10] She was back at Shy for the April 1999 release, Natural. This video was judged a well-acted drama with great sex scenes, involving gangsters and an assassination plot.[11]

Kawashima followed popular AV idol Haruki Mizuno[12] in Sexia's Pretty Wife series. Kawashima's entry, the seventh in the series, was subtitled Dangerous Love Triangle and released in May of 1999. She played the role of a woman who is the victim of her wicked mother-in-law. Hoping to save her son from what she believes to be his wife's demoralizing influence, the mother hires two men to rape her. She hopes that if her son witnesses his wife having sex with other men, he will then divorce her. Instead, the entire group join up to scold the mother for being too controlling. The video ends with the mother awakening, discovering it's all been a dream, and taking it as a message to leave her son's house. ActionJAV judges this video "Another great action packed movie performed by the legendary Azumi Kawa[13][14]

Less than a year after her debut, Kawashima's popularity prompted Sexia to release a retrospective video, Azu-mi-x, which included scenes from her first video as well as new material.[5] Sexia's February 2000 multi-star video, ALL STARS: Erotic Lips Selection, had Kawashima on the same tape as fellow Pretty Wife veteran, Haruki Mizuno.[15] A second retrospective video, Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography, was released in September 2000 in a "permanent collector's edition".[6] Kawashima's last releases, a video entitled Memory, and a DVD named Complete Azumi Kawashima, came out in July 2003.[2][16] In addition to her video career, Kawashima's portfolio includes the release of 4 photobooks.

Selected filmography [17]

Video title Company Director Release date
Promise/Appointment
約束
Sexia/Try Heart Greate Kazu 18 December 1998
Naive
純真
Shy
シャイ企画
31 January 1999
I Want To Hold You
抱きしめたい
Sexia/Try Heart Shion Kageura 26 February 1999
Genuine
生粋
Shy 23 March 1999
Natural Shy 30 April 1999
Pretty Wife 7
プリティワイフ7
Sexia/Try Heart Makoto Nimekoji 21 May 1999
Memories Shy 18 June 1999
Azu-mi-x Sexia/Try Heart Futoshi Sakura 14 August 1999
SEXIA COLLECTION 1999
セクシアコレクション1999
Sexia/Try Heart Ebisu The Great 10 December 1999
Erotic Lips Selection
Sexia/Try Heart Ebisu The Great 18 February 2000
Last Kiss Sexia 19 May 2000
Azu-mi-x II: Wazumi's Filmography Sexia/Try Heart Goody 22 September 2000
OFFSIDE: The Best Selection Raising Company 12 December 2001
Forever Shy 3 March 2001
Return Shy 27 September 2001
Complete Azumi Kawashima
コンプリート 川島和津実
Raising Company 10 July 2003
Memory: Azumi Kawashima
記憶 川島和津実
Sexia/Try Heart Mark Spell 19 July 2003
Pretty and Pliable[8]

Notes

  1. Infobox data from: 川島 和津実 - Kawashima Adumi (Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Retrieved on 2007-06-13. and Azumi (Kawashima Azumi) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Complete Azumi Kawashima (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  3. 3.0 3.1 PROMISE (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  4. Pretty Wife 7 (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Azu-mi-x (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Azu-mi-x II (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  7. Azumi (Kawashima Azumi) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Azumi Kawashima (English). www.actionjav.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  9. 1998. AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
  10. I Want To Hold You (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  11. Natural (English). www.actionjav.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  12. Pretty Wife 4 (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-23.
  13. Pretty Wife 7 (English). www.actionjav.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  14. Pretty Wife 7 (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  15. ALL STARS (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  16. Memory: Azumi Kawashima (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
  17. Filmography from Azumi (Kawashima Azumi) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-19. and 川島和津実 (Kawashima Azumi) (Japanese). AV Idol Directoryz. Retrieved on 2007-06-18. and Azumi Kawashima (Filmography). Urabon Navigator 1997-2006. Archived from the original on 2007-06-20. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.

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