is a Japanese actress, model

Model (person)

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, and AV idol

AV Idol

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. In April 1994, she won the "Shape Up Girl Audition" Grand Prix, and made appearances with three other models under the "Shape Up Girl" name. She made numerous appearances on television, film, v-cinema, photobooks and on stage during the 1990s. She and her husband, actor Yūjin Nomura, announced the birth of their first child, a son, in October 2009. At the end of that year Imai appeared in the "Shape-Up Girl" calendar with her fellow alumni of that group. She returned for this calendar the following year.

Partial filmography

• 泥棒貴族　Body Hunter (1996)
• Guard Dog (1997)
• 仁義13　地獄の墓標 (1997)
• 俺の空　刑事編 (1998)
• 俺の空　刑事編　闇の制裁 (1998)
• 日本暴力地帯　美しき野望 (1998)
• デコトラ・パチンカー　恋の連チャン大爆走 (1999)
• 京浜抗争史外伝　最後の組長 (2000)
• Mito Kōmon
  Mito Kōmon
  is a Japanese jidaigeki or period drama that has been on prime-time television since 1969. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-shogun and retired second daimyo of the Mito domain...
  
  (2003 TV series)

External links

• "今井恵理 いまい・えり" at allcinema.net
• 今井恵理( 出演 ) at Kinema Junpo
  Kinema Junpo
  , commonly called , is a Japanese film magazine which began publication in July 1919. The magazine was founded by a group of four students, including Saburō Tanaka, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology . In that first month, it was published three times on days with a "1" in them. These first three...
  
  
• 今井恵理: Eri Imai Profile at oscarpro.co.jp