is a Japanese actress. She appeared in many
Toei films including
Pinky violence
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 ...
films. In 1979, she married sumo wrestler
Kurama and retired.
Selected filmography
Film
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Shin Harenchi Gakuen'' (1971)
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
is a 1972 Japanese gangster film directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, and co-written with Isao Matsumoto. The movie stars Meiko Kaji and Tsunehiko Watase. The movie was followed with a 1972 sequel entitled '' Gincho Nagaremono: Mesuneko Bakuchi.''
Pl ...
'' (1972)
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Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion'' (1972)
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song'' (1973)
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Karate Kiba
is a 1973 Japanese martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba. It is based on an action manga by Ikki Kajiwara.
A recut version was released in the United States in 1976 as ''The Bodyguard'', with added footage in the first ten minutes of the film.
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'' (1973)
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School of the Holy Beast
is a film in the nunsploitation subgenre of Pink film, Pinky violence made by Toei Company in 1974 in film, 1974.
Plot
A young woman (Yumi Takigawa) becomes a nun at the Sacred Heart Convent to find out what happened to her mother years earlier. ...
'' (1974)
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Cross the Rubicon!
, also known as ''Plundering the Source of Capital'' and ''Gambling Den Heist'', is a 1975 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
Plot
The film begins with a bank robbery using handguns and a handmade bomb. The bomb rolls off a counter ...
'' (1975)
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash'' (1976)
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Karate Warriors
Karate Warriors ( ja, 子連れ殺人拳, ) is a 1976 Japanese martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba.
Plot
Chico arrives in a city where there are two warring gangs. Chico gets wind of a large hidden stash of heroin owned by the, now dead, forme ...
'' (1976)
*''Okinawa Jūnen Sensou'' (1978)
Television
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playgirl
''Playgirl'' was an American magazine that featured general interest articles, lifestyle and celebrity news, in addition to nude or semi-nude men. In the 1970s and 1980s, the magazine printed monthly and was marketed mainly to women, although i ...
'' (1972)
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Unmeitōge
is a Japanese jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1974. It is based on Renzaburō Shibata's novel of the same title. The lead star is Masakazu Tamura.
Plot
Akizuki Rokurōta was born as a child of Tokugawa Ieyasu, but s ...
'' (1974) as Sasaka
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G-Men '75
was a long-running prime-time popular television detective series in Japan. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:54 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) network from May 24, 1975 to April 3, 1982. A sequel, ''G-Men ' ...
'' (1975–79) Guest (ep.13,19,63,71,166,199)
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Space Ironman Kyodain
is a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. The show, like numerous others of its type and era, were produced as a joint effort between manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei Company producer Toru Hirayama. It premiered ...
'' (1976)
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Monkey
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...
'' (1979) Guest (ep,26)
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Hattori Hanzō: Kage no Gundan'' (1980) Guest (ep,19)
References
External links
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1952 births
Living people
Singers from Tokyo
Japanese film actresses
Japanese television actresses
Japanese women singers