Kyōko Aizome
Japanese actress, singer, AV director and writer
Kyōko Aizome () (Japanese: 愛染 恭子, Hepburn: Aizome Kyōko; born February 9, 1958) is a Japanese porn actress, singer, writer, and AV and film director. She has been called "the first hard-core porn actress in Japan".
Life and career
Early life
Kyōko Aizome was born in Noda, Chiba Prefecture. She 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. 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.
Daydream
Pioneer pink film 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.
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