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.
Movies & TV Shows
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Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) — Stripper
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Sex Jack (1970) — Masako Yoneda
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Women Hell Song (1970)
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Sweet Trap (1963) — Kaori Shimamura
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The Woman Who Wanted to Die (1971) — Natsu Orie
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Sexy Diary (1965) — Reiko Tama / Masako Kitamura
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Sex Family (1971)
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Michi no Sex (1966)
- Flesh Market (1962)
- Ecstasy of Wickedness (1964)
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Savage Women (1963)
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Oiroke sakusen (1963)
- Mesuinu no Kake (1964)
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Blood of Lust Is Dripping (1965) — Etsuko
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Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy (1967)
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Payment for Adultery (1963)
- Misused (1966)
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Okinawan Horror: Upside-Down Ghost - Chinese Horror: Breaking a Coffin (1962) — Reiko (segment "Upset Walking Ghost")
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The Staircase of Sex (1968)
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Vice Doctor (1966)
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Bondage Nymphomaniac (1980) — Oryu, female yakuza
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Keiji monogatari Tōkyō no meiro (1960)
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Midareta kankei (1967)
- Nikutai no yûwaku (1967) — Ryôko
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Man at the Bullfight (1960)
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Zattō ni hikarume (1959)
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm (1960)
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Fukanzen kekkon (1962)
- Majo-gari (1970) — Yuri
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Doronuma no yorokobi (1965)
- Jealousy Trap (1965)
- Akai shigoki: Nihon dokufu-den (1965)
- Maiden Flesh (1965)
- Female Trap (1967)
- Kôshoku kinchaku kiri no onna (1969)
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He's the Witness (1960)
- Bijo, Chijo, Majo (1970)
- 邪淫の抱擁 (1971)
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Nagumade Matte (1971)
- From the Flower and the Serpent, Bind to the Bones (1966)