is a

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actress and an early Japanese

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of the 1980s.

Life and career

Kikuchi was born in

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, Japan on April 5, 1965. She started as a ''fuzoku'' (sex industry) girl in hotels and

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s and also made appearances in several underground pornographic films. Her official AV debut was at age twenty in the video ''Beautiful D-Cup Girl, Sister L'', released in September 1985 by CineMagic. Kikuchi has been called the first adult video performer whose career was built around her exceptionally large breasts for that time in Japan. The Big Bust genre, or , which Kikuchi pioneered would be set "on fire" at the end of the 1980s with the debut of Kimiko Matsuzaka in 1989, and become established as a major genre of adult entertainment in Japan in the 1990s. Kikuchi's pink film debut was with

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in their in 1986. In August of the same year, she starred in a ''pink film'' for Shintoho Eiga, . This film has Kikuchi playing "Eri", a nude model and AV actress who becomes romantically involved with her manager. In 1988 she starred in one of Nikkatsu's last ''Roman Porno'' films, , and in 1993 she would star in another theatrical Big-Bust title (), for Excess Films, Nikkatsu's post-''Roman Porno'' line of theatrical softcore pornography. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kikuchi also appeared in a number of photobooks, mostly with the

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theme of

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. In 2003, she was working as a lecturer/demonstrator at the AV Cultures School, a school started by male AV actor, Shinji Kubo, to train future AV directors. By December 2004 Kikuchi, aged 39, had returned to AV with a series of videos for

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, a studio specializing in "mature" actresses. She also performed in ''Mourning Dress Slave / Eri Kikuchi'' in July 2005 for CineMagic, the AV company she had made her début with 20 years previously. As of 2013, Eri Kikuchi was billed at the

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''Nishiki VIP Toshima''.

Partial videography

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