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Hitomi Furuya (古谷仁美, Furuya Hitomi?, born January 26, 1976) better known by her stagename hitomi, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She began her career as model, but after meeting Tetsuya Komuro he began managing her career as a pop singer. In 1998 she left the "Komuro Family" and started working with other musicians and producers, oriented to other musical genres such as pop rock, and more recently to electropop.
Born Hitomi Furuya (古谷仁美, Furuya Hitomi?) in Tochigi, Japan, Hitomi's family relocated to Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture when she was a child. Consequently Hitomi always identified herself as a girl from Kanagawa. hitomi was an enthusiastic athlete throughout her childhood, playing baseball, soccer, and basketball, as well as an avid reader of manga. When hitomi was 16 years old, she was spotted and approached by a scout from a modelling agency. Hitomi signed a short modelling contract and began appearing in magazines while she was still in high school.
In 1993, then 17 years old, Furuya was spotted by eminent Avex music producer Tetsuya Komuro at an audition. Komuro signed Furuya to Avex, put Furuya through vocal training, and decided that she should use an all-lowercase 'hitomi' as her stage name. The following year, in November 1994, hitomi released her debut single, "Let's Play Winter", through Avex Trax, to which she wrote the lyrics. Since then, Hitomi has been the lyricist for almost all of her songs.
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Keywords: acronym-in-title, action-heroine, antonyms-in-title, assassin, based-on-video-game, beach, beach-volleyball, bikini, boat, box-office-flopActors: Steve Staley (actor), Stephanie Sheh (actress), Noriko Eguchi (actress), Yutaka Matsushige (actor), Joe Cappelletti (actor), Barbara Goodson (actress), Liam O'Brien (actor), Shin'ichi Tsutsumi (actor), Renji Ishibashi (actor), Ken'ichi Endô (actor), Michael McConnohie (actor), Doug Stone (actor), Sam Riegel (actor), Takashi Miike (director), Kôji Endô (composer),
Plot: People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.
Keywords: abandoned-apartment, abandoned-hospital, abusive-mother, apartment, apartment-building, archive, asian-horror, asthma, asthma-attack, axeActors: Barry L. Caldwell (miscellaneous crew), Glen Chin (actor), Jim Ishida (actor), Brittany Ishibashi (actress), Rodney Kageyama (actor), Nobu McCarthy (actress), Saki Miata (actress), Martin Cohen (producer), Shaher Batroukh (miscellaneous crew), Jennifer Aquino (actress), Clare MacCarley (costume designer), Susan Ray (producer), Shirley Kurata (costume designer), Jon Bush (producer), Fabrice Colin (miscellaneous crew),
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Plot: In this collection of three separate stories, Tsurujiro Kazama is a songwriter for some of Japan's most popular Idol singers ... singers he exacts a unique price from. Also included are the stories of Toyama no Benbei ... seducer extraordinaire!
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Genres: Drama, Mystery,