Kyōko Aizome
Kyōko Aizome | |
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Born | [1] | 9 February 1958
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) |
Website | AizomeNet |
Kyōko Aizome (Japanese:
Life and career[edit]
Early life[edit]
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.[2] 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[edit]
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. 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 calls it Japan's first hardcore pornographic movie.[2] By 1981, hardcore AVs (adult videos) were already starting to win over the adult entertainment audience in Japan,[4] but the film became a hit with theatrical audiences. Uncensored copies of the film were also circulated illegally.[5]
After Daydream[edit]
After Daydream, Aizome became active in Japan's prolific adult video and pink film industries. She made her debut in the still-young AV industry in November 1981 with April of Lust for director Tadashi Yoyogi, making her one of Japan's earliest AV idols.[6] Her name became a marketing tool and was used in the titles of such later theatrical releases as Yoyogi's Kyōko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence (Aizome Kyōko Kareinaru Tsuioku) (1983)[7] and Shin'ya Yamamoto's Kyōko Aizome's Widow's Boarding House (Aizome Kyōko no Mibōjin Geshuku) (1984).[8]
Aizome's fame also led her to embark on a successful live-performance career in striptease, which lasted until her retirement in July 1994. While engaged in stripping, she was arrested twice in 1983 for indecent exposure. She used her jail time to review her career and rededicate 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.[2]
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."[9]
Aizome gained an international audience in the 1986 Traci Lords film, Traci Takes Tokyo. With her name mis-credited as "Kyōko Izoma", the porn-video was shot in Tokyo before Lords' scandal, and is therefore now illegal in the U.S.
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.[10]
Later career[edit]
She retired from regular performances in pornography in 1994, but continued to act in erotic films occasionally in later years. She would also work behind the camera in the industry in various capacities including writing and directing.[11][12] In 2001 Aizome was writing a sex- and health-advice column for women in Japan,[2] titled "Auntie Agony".
She teamed up with "AV Queen" Hitomi Kobayashi in the February 2001 theatrical release, Kyōko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition (
In October 2005, she starred in the Madonna hardcore AV Widow's Obscene Desire (
Aizome's name was in the news again in 2007 when she was arrested for beating her niece. Aizome admitted to the allegations and was fined 500,000 yen. She explained, "I hit my niece to punish her for dating my boyfriend. But it went too far."[11]
Co-directing with Shinji Imaoka, Aizome filmed a fourth version of Tanizaki and Takechi's Daydream, which was released on September 5, 2009.[21] In March 2010, she played the female lead as Kikue, a masochistic elderly woman in The Slave Ship, an adaptation of Oniroku Dan novella Dorei-bune (
Selected filmography[edit]
Film title[23] | Release date | Studio | Director | Notes | |
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Theatrical films[edit] | |||||
Daydream Hakujitsumu |
1981-09-12 | Tetsuji Takechi | Debut role With Kei Satō & Takemi Katsushika | ||
Karei Naru ai no Henreki Aizome Kyōko |
1982-08-14 | Joy Pack | Tadashi Yoyogi | With Masayoshi Nogami | |
Kyōko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence Aizome Kyōko Kareinaru Tsuioku |
1983-03-11 | Joy Pack | Tadashi Yoyogi | With Masayoshi Nogami & Matsu Takada | |
Kyōko Aizome's Widow's Boarding House Aizome Kyōko no Mibōjin Geshuku |
1984-12-22 | Nikkatsu | Shin'ya Yamamoto (director) | With Kate Asabuki | |
Daydream 2 Hakujitsumu Zoku |
1987-02-07 | Tetsuji Takechi | With Kei Satō & Kenji Hayami | ||
Early Afternoon Love Affair Hirusagari no Jōji |
1993-12-23 | Excess | Yukio Kitazawa | With Manami Ogawa | |
Kyōko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition Aizome Kyōko VS Kobayashi Hitomi Hatsujō Kurabe |
2001-02-02 | Excess | Kyōko Aizome | With Hitomi Kobayashi | |
Double G-Spot: Kyôko Aizome vs. Eri Kikuchi Aizome Kyōko vs Kikuchi Eri: Daburu G Supotto |
2003-12-26 | Shintōhō Eiga | Kyōko Aizome | With Eri Kikuchi & Kyōko Kazama Also released as a DVD by Japan Home Video | |
The Slave Ship Dorei-sen |
2010–03-10 | Shintōhō Eiga | Satoshi Kaneda | With Tarō Suwa |
Video title[24] | Release date | Studio | Director | Notes | |
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Adult videos (AV)[edit] | |||||
April of Lust Inyoku no Uzuki |
1981-11 | Japan Video ( |
Tadashi Yoyogi | Debut AV | |
Dizziness Kyoko Aizome |
1982-01-01 | Athena Eizou | Tadashi Yoyogi | ||
Secret Sexual Technique Part 1: Soaking Wet |
1983 | Athena Eizou / Mimizuku Video Pack MV-9063 |
Tadashi Yoyogi | ||
Secret Sexual Technique Special |
1984 | Athena Eizou AV-T905 |
Tadashi Yoyogi | ||
Psycho Hypnotic Ecstasy Part 1 サイコ |
1985 | Athena Eizou AS-603 |
Tadashi Yoyogi | ||
Traci Takes Tokyo | 1986 | Steven Cartier Tadashi Yoyogi |
With Traci Lords & Don Fernando | ||
Three Mature Sisters Chapter 1 |
1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-022 |
Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka | |
Three Mature Sisters Chapter 2 |
1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-023 |
Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka | |
Three Mature Sisters Chapter 3 |
1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-024 |
Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka | |
Three Mature Sisters Chapter 4 |
1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-025 |
Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka | |
Three Mature Sisters Chapter 5 |
1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-026 |
Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka | |
Lesbian Wives |
2001-03-16 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9144 |
Kyōko Aizome | With Hitomi Kobayashi | |
Mellow Sales Lady |
2001-04-21 | Shy Plan Bold BL-068 |
Satoru Kobayashi | ||
Molester In A Hospital |
2002-10-25 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9172 |
Kyōko Aizome | With Yuri Komuro & Mayumi Sawaki | |
G Pleasure Gの |
2002-12-24 | Alice Japan Erotica KS-8562 |
Kyōko Aizome | ||
Crimson Sisters |
2003-01-24 | CineMagic Collect DD-052 |
Oniroku Dan | With Minako Ogawa & Mayumi Sawaki | |
Princess Hunting |
2003-02-25 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9178 |
Kenichi Fujiwara | With Kyōko Kazama & Moe Nishimura | |
Kyoko Aizome Special |
2003-04-18 | Alice Japan DV-235 (DVD) |
Compilation DVD | ||
Lesbian Politicians |
2003-09-19 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9191 (VHS) DV-277 (DVD) |
Kyōko Aizome | With Ai Kurosawa, Hitomi Shimizu & Mariko Kawana | |
Kyōko Aizome vs Eri Kikuchi Double G-spot |
2004-09-30 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9217 (VHS) DV-396 (DVD) |
Kyōko Aizome | With Eri Kikuchi | |
Love Sexuality あいぞめ |
2005-02-25 | Kazoo Planning Sizzle SCS-01 |
Gravure video (non-sex) | ||
Widow's Obscene Desire |
2005-10-25 | Madonna JUKD-284 |
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Mother and Son Incest |
2006-05-25 | Madonna JUKD-400 |
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Retirement, the Last Production |
2010-09-13 | Moodyz Gati MIGD-356 |
Hara Ichigo |
Sources[edit]
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愛染 恭子 (Aizome Kyouko)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-03-03. - "
愛染 恭子 – Aizome Kyouko (Profile)". Web I-dic. Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2007-03-03. - Connell, Ryann (2006-12-04). "Surgeon says demise of hymen restoration operations no skin off his, er... nose?". Mainichi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
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References[edit]
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研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2007-07-21. - ^ Firsching, Robert. "Aizome Kyōko Kareinaru Tsuioku". Allmovie. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved 2007-04-19.
This softcore pinku eiga film from Joy Pack Film and director Tadashi Yoyogi was made to capitalize on the notoriety of starlet Kyōko Aizome. She had attracted some notice by breaking the Japanese film taboo of displaying pubic hair in Tetsuji Takechi's 1981 remake of his 1964 classic Hakujitsumu.
- ^ Weisser, p.230
- ^ Connell, Ryann (2006-12-04). "Surgeon says demise of hymen restoration operations no skin off his, er... nose?". Mainichi Shimbun. Archived from the original on 2008-01-01. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
- ^ Weisser, p.102-103
- ^ a b "Hell hath no fury like a porn star scorned -- just ask her niece". Mainichi Shimbun. 2007-05-12. Retrieved 2007-05-14.
After retiring from the porn world in 1994, Teranishi became a sex counselor and a porn film director.
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愛染 恭子 VS 小林 ひとみ発情 くらべ (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-05-31. - ^ Scott, A. O. "Bed Partner 1988 (review)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
...the legendary studio proper [Nikkatsu] (its stepchild, Excess Films, limped along for years thereafter...
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