Asami was born in Kyoto and raised in Ibaraki, Osaka. She debuted at 13 in an ad for home builder's Asahi Kasei's Hebel Haus in 1997. She won the Grand Prix at the 3rd Miss Tokyo Walker and soon obtained a supporting role in the 2002 horror film, Dark Water. She has gone on to do multiple commercials and appear in even more films like the rejected woman in Close Range Love or the novelist mentee in The Woman Who Buys The Local Newspaper. She is signed with the Atlantis Cast talent agency.