Kyoko Aizome
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| Birthdate: | February 9, 1958 (age 49)[1] |
| Birth location: | Noda, Chiba, Japan |
| Birth name: | Kyoko Yamazaki |
| Measurements: | 83-60-85cm 33-24-34" |
| Height: | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Eye color: | Brown |
| Hair color: | Brown |
| Natural bust: | Yes |
| Blood Group: | B |
| Orientation: | Heterosexual |
| Ethnicity: | Japanese |
| Alias(es): | Kyoko Aoyama |
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| Kyoko Aizome at IMDb | |
Kyoko Aizome (愛染恭子; Aizome Kyoko) is a Japanese erotic actress, singer, AV director, and writer[2] who has been called, "the first hard-core porn actress in Japan."[3]
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[edit] Life and career
[edit] Early life
Kyoko Aizome was born Kyoko Yamazaki on February 9, 1958 in Noda, Chiba Prefecture. Aizome grew up in a troubled household. Her father was a police officer who beat his wife, and her parents divorced about 1974, when Aizome was 16 years old.[3] Soon after graduation from high school, Aizome was scouted in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood by a photographer for nude magazines. She saw nude modeling as a stepping-stone into a career in entertainment. First taking the stage name Kyoko Aoyama, she was soon appearing in films such as director Shinya Yamamoto's Molester's Subway[2] and "violent pink" director Yasuharu Hasebe's 1978 Nikkatsu Roman Porno, Raping! (Yaru!).[4]
[edit] Daydream
Pioneer pinku eiga director Tetsuji Takechi noticed Aizome in one of her nude photo magazine appearances. Pinku eiga, or "pink films", are the softcore genre of sex-film which dominated Japan's domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. Tetsuji had made Daydream (1964), the first big-budget pink film. He chose Aizome to star in his hardcore remake of this film, also called Daydream (1981), giving the actress her leading-role debut. Japan's first theatrically-released film featuring hardcore sex, Aizome added to the controversy surrounding the film by admitting to having performed actual sexual intercourse on camera. Though, as Japanese law required, sexual organs and pubic hair were fogged on screen, the Asahi Shimbun called it Japan's first hardcore pornographic movie,[3] By 1981, hardcore AVs (adult videos) were already starting to win over the adult entertainment audience in Japan,[5] but the film became a hit with theatrical audiences. Uncensored copies of the film were also circulated illegally.[6]
Aizome gained national notoriety from her status as Japan's first porn-movie superstar, comparable to the U.S.'s Linda Lovelace and Marilyn Chambers. Her name became a marketing tool and was used in the titles of such future films as Kyoko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence (Aizome Kyoko Kareinaru Tsuioku] (1983)[7] and Shinya Yamamoto's Kyoko Aizome's Widow's Boarding House (Aizome Kyoko no Mibojin Geshuku) (1984).[8]
Aizome's fame resulting from Daydream also led her to embark on a successful live-performance career in striptease which lasted until her retirement in July of 1994. While engaged in stripping, she was arrested twice in 1983 for indecent exposure. She used her jail time to review her career and re-dedicate herself to a life in adult entertainment. She also resolved to build a two-story, six-bedroom house in Chiba Prefecture, which she gave to her mother.[3]
Takechi Tetsuji filmed Daydream for the third time in 1987, as Daydream 2 (Hakujitsumu Zoku), and again hired Aizome for the lead role. According to the Weissers, each filming of Daydream had become progressively more exploitive, with the last, imported to the United States under the title Captured For Sex having the lowest production values and focusing most on sex and a torture orgy.[9]
[edit] After Daydream
Since Daydream, Aizome has been active in acting and directing in Japan's prolific adult video and softcore porn-movies. About 1986, in one of her more remarkable performances, Aizome had her hymen surgically restored so that it could be broken during the film. Previously a common procedure, hymen restorations went out of favor in Japan about the time of Aizome's use of it. The doctor who performed the restoration reports that the last time he did this surgery was on a couple in their 50s who, after seeing Aizome's film, wished to undergo the operation for their second honeymoon. In an article on the procedure, Aizome told Shukan Bunshun, "They strung a thread almost like a piano wire through the entrance to my vagina and pulled it like a drawstring to recreate the hymen. They give your privates a local anesthetic, so the operation itself doesn't really hurt. I really felt like a virgin again."[10]
Aizome gained an international audience in the 1986 Traci Lords film, Traci Takes Tokyo. With her name mis-credited as "Kyoko Izome", the porn-video was shot in Tokyo before Lords's scandal, and is therefore now illegal in the U.S.
In 2001 Aizome was writing a sex- and health-advice column for women in Japan,[3] titled "Auntie Agony", while continuing her performing career to this day. The continued endurance of Aizome's acting career after two decades is remarkable for an actress in Japan's erotic media.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Daydream (白日夢 - Hakujitsumu) (1981)
- Traci Takes Tokyo (1986)
[edit] References
- ^ Infobox data from 愛染 恭子 - Aizome Kyouko (Profile). 'Web I-dic'. Retrieved on 2007-03-01. and Koizumi, Shinichi (December 1, 2001). Porn-star label now a badge of honor for actress (English). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2001-12-03. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- ^ a b Kyoko Aizome (English). xxx.xcity.jp/SHIN-TOHO/. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- ^ a b c d e Koizumi, Shinichi (December 1, 2001). Porn-star label now a badge of honor for actress (English). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2001-12-03. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- ^ YARU! / RAPING! (English). Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.
- ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications, p.29. ISBN 1-88928-852-7.
- ^ Weisser, p.91
- ^ Aizome Kyôko kareinaru tsuioku (1983) (English). IMDB. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.
- ^ Weisser, p.230
- ^ Weisser, p.102-103
- ^ Connell, Ryann. "Surgeon says demise of hymen restoration operations no skin off his, er... nose?", Mainichi Shimbun, 2006-12-04. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
[edit] Sources
- 愛染恭子 (Aizome Kyouko) (Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- 愛染 恭子 - Aizome Kyouko (Profile). 'Web I-dic'. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- Koizumi, Shinichi (December 1, 2001). Porn-star label now a badge of honor for actress (English). Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2001-12-03. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- KYOKO AIZOME (English). Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.
- Kyoko Aizome at the Internet Movie Database
- Kyoko Aizome (English). xxx.xcity.jp/SHIN-TOHO/. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
- description of Hakujitsumu and Aizome - cult-films review site
- Hakujitsumu, Takechi Tetsuji, and Aizome at MidnightEye.com
- Connell, Ryann. "Surgeon says demise of hymen restoration operations no skin off his, er... nose?", Mainichi Shimbun, 2006-12-04. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
