Konatsu was born in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture in 1982.After graduating from junior college, she moved to Tokyo where she worked in the beauty industry and did some gravure modeling in 2003. She made her acting debut in the July 2004 V-cinema production Forbidden Fruit directed by Yuji Tajiri.
Konatsu had her film debut in director Mototsugu Watanabe’s Beppin kyōshi: toiki no aibu (2004). Her first leading role was later that same year, in Mitsuru Meike’s “Bitter Sweet.”
Director Shinji Imaoka’s “Frog Song” was named the best pink release for 2005, and Konatsu was given the award for Best Actress for her performance in Pink Eiga Grand Prix.

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