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Tamaki Katori

Acting Born Oct 21, 1938 Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan 24 credits

Biography

Tamaki Katori was a Japanese actress born on 21 October 1938 and died on 12 October 2015, famous for her pioneering role in "pink films" (softcore erotic films) in the 1960s and early 1970s.

She began her career at Nikkatsu after a beauty contest in Kumamoto, playing supporting roles before turning to independent pink films for financial reasons. Nicknamed the "Pink Princess," she made more than 600 films between 1962 and 1972, with directors such as Satoru Kobayashi, Kōji Wakamatsu, and Giichi Nishihara. After retiring, she married three times, ran a petrol station and then a company canteen.

Flesh Market (Nikutai no Ichiba, 1962), her first notable pink film.

Sex Jack (1970) by Kōji Wakamatsu, presented at Cannes.

Sex Family (1971), with Junko Miyashita.

These works illustrate the first wave of pink films, before the Roman Porno era of Nikkatsu.

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Known for

Film

Sex Family

1971

Full filmography

  • Sex Family (1971)
  • Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) as Stripper
  • Women Hell Song (1970)
  • Sex Jack (1970) as Masako Yoneda
  • The Woman Who Wanted to Die (1971) as Natsu Orie
  • Wakai hyou no mure (1959)
  • An Angel is Chasing Me (1961)
  • The Rambler on a Pearl Farm (1960)
  • Ningen Gari (1962)
  • Shōjo (1961)
  • Kage no nai yōfu (1960)
  • Zattō ni hikarume (1959)
  • Man at the Bullfight (1960)
  • O-Yae no moguri isha (1959)
  • Flesh Market (1962)
  • Bondage Nymphomaniac (1980) as Oryu, female yakuza
  • Sweet Trap (1963) as Kaori Shimamura
  • Sexy Diary (1965) as Reiko Tama / Masako Kitamura
  • Vice Doctor (1966)
  • Keiji monogatari Tōkyō no meiro (1960)
  • Okinawan Horror: Upside-Down Ghost - Chinese Horror: Breaking a Coffin (1962) as Reiko (segment "Upset Walking Ghost")
  • Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy (1967)
  • Ecstasy of Wickedness (1964)
  • Flowers in the rain (1960)