Nao Saejima
Nao Saejima | |
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Born | [1] Tokyo, Japan | March 23, 1968
Died | September 29, 2012[2] Japan | (aged 44)
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Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) |
Nao Saejima (Japanese:
Life and career[edit]
AV career[edit]
Saejima was born in Tokyo on March 23, 1968. She began appearing as a gravure idol in 1985 and appeared on the nighttime TV variety show, 11 P.M. in 1987.[2] She made her AV debut with VIP in February of the same year[3] with No.1 F-Cup, Nao Saejima - Saejima's Awakening (
Theatrical career[edit]
Saejima appeared in one of Nikkatsu's last Roman Porno films in 1988. The studio ceased production of this long-running series of theatrical softcore porn films in 1988, and declared bankruptcy soon afterwards.[7] Through its Excess Films line, the studio continued to release theatrical pornography for several more years.[8] Nao Saejima was hired by Excess Films to star in her own theatrical release, Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima in 1989. Critical reaction to Saejima's performance was surprisingly positive, since AV performers were not thought capable of any genuine acting necessary for performing roles in theatrical films. This film has Saejima as a woman with the ability to communicate with the spirit world. She and her husband use this ability to swindle money out of grieving families of recently deceased. When the king of the spirit world learns of these shady practises, he kidnaps Saejima. Saejima's husband and a Chinese monk travel to the underworld to rescue her, encountering various bizarre sexual escapades on the way.[9]
Among several other starring pink film and V-cinema roles in the 1990s, Saejima starred in Okura studio's Erotic Ghost Story: Female Ghost in Heat (
Retirement and Death[edit]
In later years Saejima also worked as a writer, a punk group vocalist, and a yoga instructor.[2] After her retirement from public appearances in 2002 it was reported that she was working as an artist.[13] In a sign of Saejima's international popularity, the Taiwan rock band, Goodbye!Nao! was named in tribute to her.[14]
In 2007, Saejima participate in a live event of Dramatic Dream Team Pro Wrestling, winning the bizarre Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship two times in the same event.
Saejima died on September 29, 2012, having been stricken with cancer five years previously according to friends.[2]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Infobox data from: "
冴島 奈緒 - Nao Saejima" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2007-06-04. - ^ a b c d e f g "'80s AV actress Nao Saejima dies at 44, star of 'roman porno' and 'pink' films". The Tokyo Reporter. 2012-10-25. Retrieved 2012-11-01.
- ^ "BEST 4 Hours / Nao Saejima". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
'Nao Saejima' who debuted in 1987
- ^ "1987" (in Japanese). AV
研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Retrieved 2007-07-21. - ^ "FlashBack 1". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
- ^
女神 再 光臨 ~アナタにまた逢 えた~ (in Japanese). www.moodyz.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26. - ^ Macias, Patrick (2001). "Nikkatsu's Roman Porno". TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. San Francisco: Cadence Books. pp. 187–188. ISBN 1-56931-681-3.
- ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 63. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
Nikkatsu... dumped money into a new "B" variation of the pinku eiga called Excess Films. With some exceptions, Excess was never taken seriously by the critics, although it managed to survive as an intermittent porn production studio - proudly lensing 35 mm pink films for at least another decade.
- ^ a b Weisser, p.35.
- ^ Weisser, p.130.
- ^ Shikiyoku kaidan: hatsujo onna yurei (1995) at IMDb
- ^ Firsching, Robert. "Apartment Wife: Mid-Afternoon Love Affair". Allmovie. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ "Porn starlets move on to inspiring second careers". Mainichi Shimbun. January 7, 2006. Retrieved 2007-06-04.[dead link]
- ^ "Events & Entertainment". Taipei Times. June 23, 2006. p. 14. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
Sources[edit]
- "NAO SAEJIMA". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
- "
冴島 奈緒 - Nao Saejima" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2007-03-04. - "Nao Saejima". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- "
冴島 奈緒 (Saejima Nao)" (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2007-03-04. - Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 35, 130. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
- "
冴島 奈緒 (Moodyz profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). Moodyz. Retrieved 2008-03-20.
External links[edit]
- Nao Saejima at IMDb
- Nao Saejima's obituary (in Japanese)