Hitomi Interview

Translated by:Ex-S Woo

Interviewer: So, you debuted last year, right?
Hitomi: Right, the latter half of July.

Interviewer: It's common to do photoshoots early on in this line of work but you've been doing this for almost a year now. How does it feel?
Hitomi: Well, I've gotten used to work but I still feel a bit nervous about doing them.

Interviewer: Even after 10 tapes?
Hitomi: Yesterday...or was it the day before that? Anyway, I just finished shooting my 12th tape, and that feeling's still there. Actually, I'm more comfortable doing live stuff like this interview more than the shoots.

Interviewer: Do you get embarassed when they ask you to act natural?
Hitomi: Yes, I do. The actors do a lot for you when you're on the recieving side, but people are asking me to be more agressive recently and I don't know how I'm supposed to do that, exactly.

Interviewer: Well, I suppose it's natural after getting the amount of experience you got so far.
Hitomi: That's true. It's really about time that I do become more agressive.

Interviewer: So if you're acting like this now, I bet it was a lot worse when you were debuting.
Hitomi: I've blocked it out of my mind (laughs). I don't remember a thing about my first tape.

Interviewer: Isn't that because you were too busying coming?
Hitomi: No, it was really because I had no idea what I was doing at the time. I think the 2nd tape was like that too.

Interviewer: ...and it's still continuing to a certain extent, it seems like. You're doing about 1 tape a month, right?
Hitomi: Right. I often get cast as a younger sister or a high school student, which is good since it's for me when I have to act out a role. I love to act. I tend to do rather badly on the straight sex tapes.

Interviewer: Well, that's probably because straight sex is all that's there in those tapes.
Hitomi: Exactly. So I don't think I'm quite ready for it.

Interviewer: You don't like sex?
Hitomi: No, I do (laughs). Being filmed is also a bit of turn on as well. I get more comfortable as the same director films me over and over again.

Interviewer: I see. So how about photoshoots like this one?
Hitomi: It's a lot of fun. I mean, I get to travel and everything.

Interviewer: Hey, your voice sounds a lot happier now. Do you look at your own pictures?
Hitomi: I do take a look them when I see them in stores, but I don't go out of my way to do it. It's more like me leafing through a magazine that I find in a office or something.

Interviewer: Oh, so it's pretty much like how people decide on what magazines to buy. You know, you've been in a lot of photoshoots and interviews lately, haven't you?
Hitomi: Yes. There's not as many interviews anymore, but I had more interviews than shoots for the first 3 months or so. -I bet the questions are all the same though. It really is. They're all about my newest tape or about my private life.

Interviewer: That and what led you to make a debut.
Hitomi: Right (laughs).

Interviewer: Well, we do get in trouble if we don't ask. So how did it happen anyway?
Hitomi: I was scouted. Someone came up to me while I was walking home with a friend. I'm not sure why I okayed it at the time though (laughs). There was nothing I really wanted to do and I quit school a bit earlier so I was really worried about what I should do. I never dreamed of being in a place like this at the time.

Interviewer: How was your photoshoot like?
Hitomi: It was during the summer so it was incredibly hot, but I think it came out pretty well. I even remember buying a copy of it at the deli (laughs).

Interviewer: You also did a photobook, right?
Hitomi: Yes, my 2nd one just came out, actually. There's another one coming out this summer too.

Interviewer: 3 books in one year is quite impressive. So I bet you did a lot of shooting overseas.
Hitomi: Not really. I went to Saipan for the first one, and I was supposed to go back for the 2nd book as well but we ended up going to a studio in Yokohama due to the 9/11 attacks.

Interviewer: Oh, I see. Still, you must've been in a lot of shoots by now. Over a 100, maybe?
Hitomi: Hmmm, I've been doing 3 or 4 a week so it might be around that number.

Interviewer: Did you have problems in any of them?
Hitomi: I guess the photobook shoots are the hardest. I remember the wind being so strong for the shooting of the 2nd book that my clothes would go flying off. They kept calling me Tarzan (laughs). It was incredibly cold too...I still remember what a hard time I had back then.

Interviewer: I see. How about videos then?
Hitomi: It'd be have to be the first two tapes for video shooting. The 2nd one was particularily hard for me. I never had much experience with adult toys until then that I even cried.

Interviewer: Just try not to cry here.
Hitomi: I'm fine now (laughs). But I was really scared at the time. I didn't think I could get past the third tape at this rate. But I was with the actors the entire time for the third one, and that was okay. It was a bit awkward since they would suddenly come on stage, but it was nice to be working with them for an extended period of time.

Interviewer: So you really had no experience until then?
Hitomi: Yes. I went out with someone for two years in high school but I never let him see me nude. The only position we did was missionary...

Interviewer: It didn't feel good?
Hitomi: It did feel pretty good. Of course, it didn't feel like that at all when I lost my virginity in my third year of Jr. High. It wasn't really until my senior year that it felt good.

Interviewer: I'm surprised you decided to do AVs at all.
Hitomi: Things got a lot easier for me after the third and fourth tapes, but people around me were starting to find out what I did, so it was a tough time for me. It was around the 7th tape that I steeled my mind and decided to continue this as long as I can.

Interviewer: You mean your friends found out?
Hitomi: Well, my closest friends were cheering me on. But some of the people I knew would be whispering behind my back.

Interviewer: Did you have a tough time in school?
Hitomi: I think it was pretty normal. Of course, that might just mean that the whole sysytem is messed up nowadays(laughs).