(also, ) ''aka'' is a Japanese
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
,
actress, and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
, known for her work in the ''
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 ...
'' genre. After making her acting debut in 1965, she appeared in independent ''pink films'' throughout the rest of the decade, often for director
Akitaka Kimata, whom she would later marry, and his son Seiji Izumi. Tama took a brief retirement in the early 1970s, then began appearing in films in
Nikkatsu's ''Roman Porno'' series in 1975. She began directing in 1981, helming at least 80 films as of 2002.
Life and career
Early life and career
Rumi Tama was born on January 15, 1949 in
Tokyo's
Setagaya
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood and administrative district within the ward. The ward calls itself Setagaya City in English. Its official bird is the azure-winged magpie, its flower is the fringed orch ...
neighborhood.
Her family had close ties to the film industry. Her father was a set designer at
Daiei Film, and her uncle was the cinematographer
Kimio Watanabe at the same studio.
Tama's brother was employed at
Toei as a lighting technician.
Her sister also became a ''pink film'' actress, following Tama's entry into the field, appearing in
Masao Adachi
Masao Adachi (足立正生 ''Adachi Masao'', born May 13, 1939) is a Japanese screenwriter, director, actor and former Japanese Red Army member who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture.
Career
Best known for ...
's . Using the stagename , her career mostly involved acting in supporting roles in films with Tama.
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Rumi Tama made her film debut as an actress in the 1965 Tokyo Eiga pink film release, .
She starred in many of these independent softcore theatrical films throughout the rest of the decade, appearing often in films by and his son Akiyoshi, who was born in 19