Japanese Idol and Bikini model Arisa Oda was born on October 13th, 1982 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She may be small (five foot three) but be careful with her, she studies karate. Arisa has appeared in two movies in Japan, Tokyo Shugo Tenshi (2007) and Maranika - Ochiru Onna (2007), and appeared in several DVDs. She changed her screen name awhile back to Mika Kayama, which interestingly is the name of a character in the Japanese anime and manga, Sailor Moon.
One of the most popular women on this blog is the lovely Eiko Koike. Eiko was born on November 20th, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan. She is a Japanese idol (who are usually singers, bit-part actors, TV personalities and models) who worked as a ringside commentator and spokesperson for Japan's MMA promotion, PRIDE Fighting Championships from 2000 to 2006. Eiko has been married to professional wrestler and MMA fighter Wataru Sakata since August 29th, 2007. (Wataru's MMA record is 11-13-0, and his last fight was in 2003) Eiko and Wataru both made appearance in the bizzarre HUSTLE wrestling promotion in Japan.
Along with Maho Nonami, Eiko starred in 2LDK, a film about two actresses up for the same part, that leads into them pretty much beating the crap outta each other for the remainder of the film.
She has appeared in over 20 TV shows and films, and in 2009, she won the Yokohama Film Festival Best Actress Award for her role in Seppun (Kiss).
Another Asian beauty that seems to be very popular here is Vietnamese model Vilan Vi. And I think I know why. I mean other than she is gorgeous. It looks like this beautiful young lady has pretty much disappeared from the net. Her website http://www.vilanvi.com/ is gone. There's her ModelGraphy entry that's still up. http://www.modelgraphy.com/us/vilan_vi.html And her HIN City entry is still there, but with no pictures. http://www.hincity.com/models/profile.asp?id=93701N21VH9SB70DR0OAGR681
So maybe Vilan has left modeling. But at least we have one last parting shot here.
After being off the radar for a bit, beautiful Korean singer Lee Hyori is set to make a comeback.
Her new album will be coming out at the end of February (or early March), and the album has a track on it called Bring It Back which will feature Jiyoon (4minute) and Bekah (After School).
Lee is also doing some modeling for the clothing brand TOPGIRL.
I really don't understand why Lee is not more of an international hit. She can sing and she is drop dead gorgeous. A lethal combination.
Besides her three albums (Stylish...E, Dark Angel and It's Hyorish), Lee has appeared on the South Korean variety show Happy Together, Three Leaf Clover, If In Love...Like Them, Sang Sang Plus, Change, Mnet Off the Record, SBS ON AIR and Family Outing.
I have done a couple of write ups on the lovely Karen Pang over at my Asian Fitness Women blog, and she has shown up in the top ten there more than once. Karen was born in Vancouver, Canada, and this beautiful lady is a Fitness Competitor, Fitness Model, 2008 Bikini Universe (Short Class) 1st Runner Up, 2007 Bikini America Top 10 Finalist, a 2007 WNSO National Pro Champion Swimsuit Model AND came in second at the WBFF BC 2009 (Bikini) in Vancouver, Canada! Pretty busy huh? Karen is five foot two and weighs in at about 107 pounds. She has the ability to look very soft and curvy in some pictures, and then turn around and own the ripped hardbody look. And she has some of the best abs in the business.
And this beautiful young lady is all over the net. You can visit her website at: http://www.misskarenpang.com/ Her Model Mayhem page here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/558190 Her MySpace page here: http://www.myspace.com/karenpang And her FaceBook page here: http://www.facebook.com/misskarenpang
Kaji Meiko is a Japanese actress and Enka (Japanese popular music genre) singer, born on March 24, 1947 in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. After appearing in several juvenile girl gang and women in prison films, Kaji gained fame in her role as Yuki in Lady Snowblood. The film was based on the manga by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Kazuo Kamimura. Kazuo Koike also created the Crying Freeman and Lone Wolf and Cub mangas. Lady Snowblood was one of the inspirations for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films. The theme song to Lady Snowblood and the theme song of the Sasori series( Female Convict 701: Scorpion, another women in prison film) were both sung by Kaji, and were used in Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. Kaji also appeared in the sequel to Lady Snowblood, Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance.
Japanese actress Miyazaki Aoi was born on November 30, 1985, in Tokyo Japan. Miyazaki had her first role at the age of fourteen in the film, One Summer's Day. She went on to make over twenty one movies including Nana, Eureka, First Love, Tada, kimi wo aishiteru (Heavenly Forest), Synesthesia and Virgin Snow. Miyazaki is currently working on the film Solanin, based on the Japanese manga written and illustrated by Inio Asano. Besides movies, she has done several television shows including Junjo Kirari (Pure Heart), R-17, Atsuhime (Princess Atsu) and Hatachi no kekkon (Wedding at 20).
Miyazaki won the Galaxy Individual Award for her role in Atsuhime. Her brother Masaru Miyazaki is also an actor, and together they starred in the film Hatsukoi.
You can check out Miyazaki's website (in Japanese) here: http://www.aoimiyazaki.jp/
Nagasawa Masami was born on born June 3, 1987 in Iwata, Shizuoka. She is a Japanese actress that works for Toho Entertainment. Nagasawa is the daughter of Kazuaki Nagasawa, the former manager of the J. League (Japanese professional association football league) team Júbilo Iwata. She graduated from Horikoshi High School, the same high school attended by other Japanese stars Ayumi Hamasaki, Ayase Haruka, Aya Ueto, Jun Matsumoto, Tomohisa Yamashita and Tanaka Koki. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 she was the cover girl for Toho Calendar. In March 2006, Nagasawa was voted the Most Popular Actress in Oricon Style. She has appeared in eighteen movies, including two Godzilla movies, Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). Nagasawa has worked on twenty three TV dramas, the first one being Pure Soul in 2001. Her latest movie is Magare! Spoon, is currently under production.
Kawashima Azumi was born on August 8, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan. She is one of the top Japanese idols. Kawashima has released over 17 videos in Japan, the first being "Promise/Appointment" released in 1998. She also had 9 photobooks released from 1999 to 2003. In 1999, she starred in the V-Cinema (direct-to-video) horror film "Demon Killer" or "Junreiki".
Koyuki was born on December 18, 1976, in Zama, Kanagawa-ken, Japan. She is a Japanese model and actress. Koyuki started her modeling career in 1995 and hasn't looked back, appearing in over 17 Japanese dramas, TV and magazine ad campaigns and films. She frequently appears in Japanese print and television marketing campaigns for Panasonic. Koyuki has appeared in ten movies, the best known to American audiences being The Last Samurai. She was Taka, the wife of a Samurai slain by the character Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise). Recently she appeared in "Blood: The Last Vampire" based on the Japanese anime. The movie is about a 400-year-old half human-half vampire girl named Saya (played by Gianna Jun) who hunts vampires in partnership with humans and seeks to destroy Onigen (played by Koyuki), the most powerful of vampires. The film was generally panned by American critics.
I haven't done an entry on Filipina model Krishelle Brown in awhile, August 2007 to be exact, so I thought I would make up for it here. This Filipina beauty is 5'3 and weighs 100 pounds. 100 well placed pounds that is.
Usually I like to do a top ten of women profiled on this blog, but last month, there was really no competition. One woman out ranked everyone else easily. And that woman was beautiful Pinay model and actress Bubbles Paraiso.
Bubbles was born on July 24, 1984 in Quezon City in the Philippines.
She has appeared in the movies For the First Time (2008) and My Monster Mom (2008) and in the TV series "Princess Sarah" (2007) and "Codename: Asero" (2008). Currently she is in the TV series "Zorro" as Magda.
Bubbles has also been the in the FHM Philippines magazine's 100 Sexiest women in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and was the cover girl of the March 2005 issue.
If you want to keep up with Bubbles in real time, you can follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bubblesparaiso.
Filipina actress Aileen Quimado Ablan Iwamoto was born on August 29, 1988 in Las Piñas City, Metro Manila, Philippines. But she is better Known to her fans as Iwa Moto. Iwa has appeared in over 20 television shows (like Posh, Dear Friend and Darna) and she has made four movies (Shake, Rattle & Roll X: Nieves, My Monster Mom, Pitong Dalagita and White Lady). She is constantly in the top 100 sexiest women polls for the Philippines versions of FHM and Maxim magazines.
Lovely Japanese actress Inoue Mao was born on January 9, 1987 in Yokohama, Japan. Mao has been acting since the age of five, but she got national attention in the TV drama Kids War in 1999. She was cast as the star of the Japanese TV show Hana Yori Dango (based on the Japanese manga Boys Over Flowers) in 2005 which was very sucessful. So succesful in fact that it lead to a sequel, Hana Yori Dango 2 in 2007. And it didnt stop there, after Hana Yori Dango 2 aired, Hana Yori Dango Final was made as a movie.
Mao has appeared in over 40 TV dramas! Add to this 5 movies, plus stage performances and you can see why Mao is so popular.
Beautiful Thai model Sunisa Jongsawadi, nicknamed "Kob". Kob was the 2005 winner of the FHM Girl Next Door contest. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of info on this lovely lady.
Raquel Gibson was born on June 14, 1985 in Clearwater, Florida. This is the sister of the lovely CJ Gibson we did in the last entry. Raquel is also of Filipino and Italian descent and she speaks Tagalog and Japanese. And not only is she beautiful, she has a culinary school degree from Chef Jean Pierre Cooking School in Florida and a real estate license.
CJ Gibson...wow...just wow. This is one incredible looking young lady. She is an American model and actress of Filipino and Italian descent. CJ was born on November 30, 1983 in Clearwater, Florida. She has appeared in FHM, American Curves, Supreme, MuscleMag International, Muscle & Fitness, Teeze, and in ads for Bowflex. CJ's sister, the equally beautiful Raquel Gibson also models.
Chisaki Hama has returned to modeling, but now her stage name is Rika Izumi. In December 2008, she appeared in a commercial for Nissin Food Products. Nissin Foods is known to colledge students all over the world as the company that makes instant ramen noodles!
I haven't done anything on the beautiful Kyoko Fukada in a while. This young lady is simply stunning. To say the camera loves her is an understatement. Kyoko was born on November 2, 1982, in Tokyo, Japan. She debuted in the television drama Sore ga Kotae da! as Kazune back in 1997, and since then has done a ton of TV and Movie appearances, notably in Ring 2, the sequel to the Japanese horror film, Ring. Besides acting, she has released several singles and albums in Japan.
