yumika hayashi

Yumika Hayashi was a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress who earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career. She starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films. Hayashi was also a prominent pink film actress, receiving the Best Actress award at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony in 2004 and receiving the Special Career Award the following year. Her death on June 28, 2005, one day after her 35th birthday, ended one of the longest careers in the AV field and made front-page news in Tokyo.

Hayashi was born Yumika Oguri in Tokyo on June 27, 1970. Her parents divorced when she was in 5th grade, elementary school, and she was on her own by the time she was in high school. Her mother managed a popular ramen chain. She made her adult video debut in the bishōjo genre with the June 1989 h.m.p. Miss Christine release, Shigamitsuku 18-sai: ojōsama wa shitanai. She made her pink film debut the same year and her starring debut with the Xces studio release, Double Rape to Break in a Perverted Wild Filly.

Cult director Hisayasu Satō chose Hayashi for a major role in his 1993 film Real Action: Drink Up! and continued an association with the actress in several films. In his entry in the Molester's Train series, Molester's Train: Dirty Behavior aka Birthday Hayashi had a role in a film whose "austere tone" was in direct contrast to the light, comic tone of the previous films in the series.

In 1995, Hayashi played a role in a TBS television series featuring Taro Miyako Nishimura's fictional detective, Inspector Totsukawa, The Izu Coast Road Murder. By mid-1996, another V&R Planning director, Katsuyuki Hirano, replaced Company Matsuo as Hayashi's lover and they traveled to the north of Japan on a bike trip. Hirano produced an AV version of their trip and later edited a mainstream documentary on the trip entitled Yumika.

In 1998, she appeared in the NHK TV drama Blue Fireworks and in director Yōichirō Takahashi's drama Nichiyōbi wa Owaranai. Hayashi's prolific career earned her a reputation as an "iron woman" of Japanese erotic cinema, and after her death, the weekly Shūkan Taishū wrote that her 180 filmed appearances deserved mention in the Guinness World Records.

In 2005, Yumika Hayashi, a Japanese actress, was found dead in her apartment after a night of heavy drinking while celebrating her 35th birthday. Her death was considered a result of foul play, with her romantic life being a possible cause. A colleague in the AV industry reported that Hayashi had broken off a relationship with a younger man about three months before her death. A neighbor also shared that she had a fight with a guy that forced the cops to be called to their apartment block.

Yumika's friend and director Yumi Yoshiyuki disagreed with the possibility of suicide, stating that she was a bright kid who had just found a new boyfriend and was happy. It was later determined that no intentional causes were involved in her death. Instead, Hayashi's death was the result of a night of heavy drinking while celebrating her 35th birthday. After the party, Hayashi choked to death in her bed after vomiting in her sleep.

Hayashi was remembered as part of a TV Asahi special on those who had recently died, Sayonara 5, 6 tsuki hen (さよなら　５、６月編), broadcast on August 12, 2005. Her posthumous work was chosen as the fifth best pink release of the year 2005 at the Pink Grand Prix. In 2006, Yoshiyuki Hayashida, founder of the pink film magazine P*G and the Pink Grand Prix, co-authored a 382-page biography of Hayashi entitled YUMIKA HAYASHI: A Portrait of the Actress as a Young Woman. In 2009, Japanese-Korean director Tetsuaki Matsue filmed a documentary on Hayashi, Annyeong Yumika, which included appearances by Hayashi's former colleagues actress Lemon Hanazawa and directors Company Matsuo and Katsuyuki Hirano.