Japanese actress Ayumi Ito gains interest in Korea thanks to CHI-CHI's "Longer" MV

It was recently revealed that Japanese actress Ayumi Ito played the main woman in�CHI-CHI's new music video for "Longer", and she's been garnering interest from netizens due to her similar looks to Korean actress, Lee Mi Yeon. After the music video was released on July 21st, fans and netizens posted screenshots of the Japanese actress on various blog sites and community pages, writing comments like, "Is she really a Japanese actress? I thought she was Lee Mi Yeon", "Mao Asada vs Ayumi Ito� The winner of the Lee Mi Yeon lookalike is?", and "Similarities are 100%, I thought it was Lee Mi Yeon in the MV." Born in 1980, Ayumi Ito got her first big break as an actress in 1996 when she was cast in Shunji Iwai's hit film, "Swallowtail Butterfly".�Her impressive acting in the movie earned her first Japanese Academy Award for "Rookie of the year" in 1997, as well as successive roles in various other hit movies thereafter. Source: E Daily via Naver