Tamaki Katori
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Tamaki Katori (b. 1938) is a Japanese erotic actress who appeared in The Flesh Market (Nikutai no Ichiba) (1962), which is considered the first pink film made in Japan. Through her appearances in over 600 of these softcore pornographic films between 1962 and 1972, she became known as the "Pink Princess" of the first wave of pink films."
Flesh Market
Katori was still acting in supporting roles at Nikkatsu when she appeared in director Satoru Kobayashi's controversial 1962 film, Flesh Market. The first Japanese film to contain nudity (director Seijun Suzuki's Gate of Flesh, made for Nikkatsu in 1964, would become the first mainstream Japanese film to contain nude scenes), Flesh Market was shut down by the police and censored before it could be re-released. Officially considered the first pink film-- the softcore pornographic genre which would dominate Japan's domestic cinema in the 1960s and 1970s-- Flesh Market became became a huge box-office success. Even with the limited distribution it received as an independent production, Flesh Market, which was made for 8 million yen, took in over 100 million yen.
