Ichikawa Yui

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Ichikawa Yui
Ichikawa Yui

Ichikawa Yui is a Japanese gravure idol, actress, and singer.

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  • Name: Ichikawa Yui (市川由衣)
  • Nickname: Yuinyan
  • Birthday: February 10th, 1986
  • Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
  • Blood Type: A
  • Height: 158cm
  • Bust: 83cm (different sources will range from 82-86cm)
  • Waist: 55cm (different sources will range from 50-55cm)
  • Hips: 85cm (different sources will range from 80-85cm)
  • Talent: Swimming

Information

When Ichikawa was a first-year student in a Harajuku junior high, she was scouted to join a NAMCO-sponsored audition in 1999. She won and subsequently began gravure modeling for various magazines in 2000. Around this time, she was also doing modeling work for the magazine Petite Birthday. Her first photobook was released in 2001 at the age of 15. That same year, Ichikawa began her career as a talent, participating in Shibuyakei Joshi Pro-Wrestling, an idol wrestling program. In the months to follow, she was in the sentai-spoof series Jikuu Keisatsu Wecker D-02 with five other up-and-coming gravure idols, including Ogura Yuko and Sakuragi Chikako. She continued to have minor parts in dramas, but when the hit drama Hotman aired in 2003, Ichikawa was bumped up to supporting actress as a sister of the main character. In 2003 again, Ichikawa was in Ringu parody film The Jurei. 2003 also marked Ichikawa's headway into the music business, and in November she released her first single Ame, a cover of the Moritaka Chisato song. By now the young gravure idol had released seven photobooks, participated in six television shows, and two actual movies (Ju-on 1 and 2), and she was still only 17. She had also done voice work for the console game Chaos Legion.

Ichikawa continued to release CDs until December of 2004. Her final single, Ai wa Katsu, was a cover of the KAN song of the same name. Yamauchi Nana, the young girl who had played her niece in Hotman, was able to sing in the chorus for this song.

After her debut as a musical artist, Ichikawa's photobook releases were little to none and fans feared it was the end of her days as a gravure idol. However, Ichikawa was still releasing annual calendars featuring herself in bikinis, and a month after her first single she released her eighth photobook Shiritsu Ichikawa Yui Gakuen, complete with pictures. Even then, Ichikawa focused more on her career as an artist. After that was over, she was devoted completely to acting and was able to land spots in two movies in 2005 and a supporting role in the TV series, H2~Kimi to Itahibi alongside Yamada Takayuki and Ishihara Satomi . In February 2006, nearly two and a half years after her last photobook, Ichikawa released Hatachi ~ The Golden Best. It contained 192 pages of photographs with Ichikawa in bikinis and also had a bonus DVD. In April 2006 the TV series Kurosagi aired with Ichikawa starring as Mishima Yukari. She retained her role in the 2008 movie of the same name.

Ichikawa was in the movies Siren and Rough in the year 2006. It was also announced on August 4th, 2006, that she would be replacing Miyazaki Aoi in the sequel to the movie adaptation of NANA [1]. The movie premiered December 9th, 2006. For its North America showing, Ichikawa traveled to New York with Nakashima Mika, her costar, just days after its Japanese premiere.

In 2008 Ichikawa had yet another co-starring role opposite Ikewaki Chizuru in the film "Onpu to Konbu," and she will have a voice-acting role in the Nintendo DS game World Destruction, to be released September 2008 in Japan.

Works

Singles

Mini-albums

Drama

  • [2002] Gokusen (ep7)
  • [2002] Taiho Shichauzo
  • [2003] HOTMAN
  • [2003] Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru
  • [2003] Ryuuten no Ouhi - Saigo no Koutei
  • [2004] Wonderful Life
  • [2004] HOTMAN 2
  • [2005] Out Limit
  • [2005] H2 ~Kimi to Ita Hibi~
  • [2005] Kikujirou to Saki
  • [2005] Rondo
  • [2006] Ai to Shi wo Mitsumete
  • [2006] Kurosagi
  • [2007] Doubutsu 119
  • [2007] Tantei Gakuen Q (ep3)
  • [2007] Sushi Ouji! (ep3, 4)
  • [2007] Suisei Monogatari
  • [2008] 4shimai Tanteidan
  • [2008] 7nin no Onna Bengoshi
  • [2008] Naito Daisuke Monogatari

Films

Video Games

  • [2003] Chaos Legion (Arcia Rinslet)
  • [2008] World Destruction (Lia Dragonelle)

PVs

Idol DVDs

Photobooks

External Links

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