[1][2][3] Kiyomi Itō made her film debut in Ryūji Akitsu's High School Girl: Thrill of the Chase (1984).
[4] The same year she starred in prominent Pink shitenno (ピンク四天王) director Hisayasu Satō's directorial debut, Mad Love!
Lolita mitsuro) aka Distorted Sense of Touch, and she became closely associated with Satō's work from that point on.
[4][5] Itō's performance in Satō's Love - 0 = Infinity (1994, originally released as Dirty Wife Getting Wet (いやらしい人妻 濡れる, Iyarashii hitozuma: nureru)) earned her the Best Actress award at the first Pink Grand Prix.
[3] When Kei Mizutani refused to appear in Weather Girl R, the sequel to her surprise 1993 cult-hit Weather Girl, Bandai Home Video chose Itō to take over Mizutani's part.