is a Japanese TV actress and former

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actress.

Life and career

Asami made her onscreen debut in a small role in

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's released in October 1979 by Toei. She primarily rose to prominence in six

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films in the period 1983–1984. In the 1983 ''Roman porno'' ''Erotic Confessions'', she played the role of a farmer's daughter stranded with a group of sex hungry travelers by a flood in this

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period historical film by

Shōgorō Nishimura was a Japanese film director. Filmography * '' Moeru Tairiku'' (1968) * ''Cruel Female Love Suicide is an April 1970 Japanese film directed by Shōgorō Nishimura and starring Annu Mari and Sanae Ōhori. The major Japanese film studio Nikkats ...

. In the 1984 ''White Uniform Story: Molestation!'', Asami plays a nurse brutalized by a psychotic patient. According to film critics Thomas and Yuko Weisser, she "plays a wide-eyed perky virgin impeccably". In her final film for Nikkatsu, Asami starred in the improbable ''College Girls' Dormitory vs Nurse School Students' Dormitory'', which the Weissers call pleasant but "ultimately very dumb". Moving into mainstream film, Asami had a small role in the June 1986 costume drama/comedy . More notable was her taking on the dual roles of twin sisters Princess Ial and Princess Igam in the

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'' which ran in 51 episodes from February 1987 to February 1988.

Nikkatsu filmography

* , (April 1983)

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* , (June 1983), directed by

* , (September 1983), directed by

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* , (March 1984), directed by Hidehirō Itō * , (June 1984), directed by

* , (September 1984), directed by Nobuyuki Saitō

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Asami, Mina 1958 births Japanese actresses Pink film actors Living people People from Saitama (city)