is a former Japanese AV idol and ''

pink film in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. The Western equiv ...

'' actress.

Life and career

Mari Ayukawa was born in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

on December 2, 1969. Ayukawa had nurse education in

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

and she was a

medical school A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...

student when she made her AV debut in the July 1988 Arena release, . Ayukawa starred in the female pink film director Sachi Hamano's entry in Shintōhō Eiga's ''

Molester's Train is a Japanese pink film series. Academy Award–winning director Yōjirō Takita started the series in 1982. By 1997, there had been 25 films made in the series. In their pioneering English-language work on Japanese erotic cinema, the Weissers w ...

'' series, . In 1989 she starred in two films for ''pink film'' pioneer Satoru Kobayashi, and , both of which were distributed by Xces. Ayukawa also starred in director

Akio Jissoji (March 29, 1937 – November 29, 2006) was a Japanese Television in Japan, television and film director best known outside Japan for the 1960s TV series ''Ultraman'' and ''Ultra Seven, Ultraseven'', as well as for his Auteur theory, auteur E ...

's (1990), also distributed by Xces. In 1991, Ayukawa played the role of the wife of Kuen the silk-maker in the

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

Category III classic '' Sex and Zen''. In 2006, Ayukawa's AV career, which ran from 1988 to 1990, much of it for the h.m.p. and Alice Japan studios, was reviewed in the DVD ''Mari Ayukawa History'', released by Atlas21.

Partial filmography

Notes

Bibliography

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Filmography
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AV filmography
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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayukawa, Mari 1969 births Living people Actresses from Tokyo Japanese female adult models Japanese pornographic film actresses Hong Kong film actresses Pink film actors