Tamaki Katori
Acting • Born 1938-10-21 – Died 2015-10-12
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.
Filmography
58 credits
Zattō ni hikarume
Movie • 1959
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Movie • 1960
Fukanzen kekkon
Movie • 1962
Flesh Market
Movie • 1962
Misused
Movie • 1966
Majo-gari
Movie • 1970
Yuri
Ecstasy of Wickedness
Movie • 1964
Doronuma no yorokobi
Movie • 1965
Jealousy Trap
Movie • 1965
Akai shigoki: Nihon dokufu-den
Movie • 1965
Maiden Flesh
Movie • 1965
Female Trap
Movie • 1967
Kôshoku kinchaku kiri no onna
Movie • 1969
Women Hell Song
Movie • 1970
Sexy Diary
Movie • 1965
Reiko Tama / Masako Kitamura
Okinawan Horror: Upside-Down Ghost - Chinese Horror: Breaking a Coffin
Movie • 1962
Reiko (segment "Upset Walking Ghost")
He's the Witness
Movie • 1960
Sex Jack
Movie • 1970
Masako Yoneda
The Staircase of Sex
Movie • 1968
Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy
Movie • 1967
Sweet Trap
Movie • 1963
Kaori Shimamura
Bijo, Chijo, Majo
Movie • 1970
邪淫の抱擁
Movie • 1971
Nagumade Matte
Movie • 1971
Vice Doctor
Movie • 1966
From the Flower and the Serpent, Bind to the Bones
Movie • 1966
Savage Women
Movie • 1963
New Torture Punishment History Torture
Movie • 1966
Oiroke sakusen
Movie • 1963
Sex Family
Movie • 1971
Michi no Sex
Movie • 1966
The Woman Who Wanted to Die
Movie • 1971
Natsu Orie
Take Aim at the Police Van
Movie • 1960
Stripper
Mesuinu no Kake
Movie • 1964
New Jack & Betty
Movie • 1969
Blood of Lust Is Dripping
Movie • 1965
Etsuko
The Devil's Sigh
Movie • 1960
Bondage Nymphomaniac
Movie • 1980
Oryu, female yakuza
Shōjo
Movie • 1961
Flowers in the rain
Movie • 1960
I told you so
Movie • 1959
Payment for Adultery
Movie • 1963
An Angel is Chasing Me
Movie • 1961
Keiji monogatari Tōkyō no meiro
Movie • 1960
Kage no nai yōfu
Movie • 1960
Midareta kankei
Movie • 1967
Ama no kaishinju
Movie • 1963
Oiroke tenshi
Movie • 1969
Nikutai no yûwaku
Movie • 1967
Ryôko
Poruno henreki
Movie • 1972
History of Japanese Night Crawling Customs
Movie • 1970
Myoshin
Itazura shojo
Movie • 1971
おヤエのもぐり医者
Movie • 1959
Ningen Gari
Movie • 1962
Wakai hyou no mure
Movie • 1959
Man at the Bullfight
Movie • 1960
Pink Telephone
Movie • 1967
Tomoko Egawa
Beautiful Villian
Movie • 1966