Tamaki Katori

Acting

Tamaki Katori

Born 1938-10-21 · Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

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.

Acting credits

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NR

Pinku from 1965.

Jealousy Trap

1965

Women Hell Song poster
4.8

The roaming outlaw Okayo, also known as Benten due to the prominent tattoo of the Buddhist Goddess of Love emblazoned across her back. On the run from her persecutors, who seek to claim the tattoo and its skin canvas as a bounty, Okayo finds a safe haven in the arms of the mysterious shakuhachi (bamboo flute) playing Seigaku, himself tattooed with the image of Kisshoten, the Goddess of Prosperity.

Women Hell Song

1970

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NR

Pinku from 1969.

Kôshoku kinchaku kiri no onna

1969

Sex Family poster
4.2

A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal with the father dominating his family sexually and violently. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out.

Sex Family

1971

Flesh Market poster
3.0

Three women are kidnapped by a sadistic lunatic and forced to "entertain" his co-workers and friends.

Flesh Market

1962

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NR

Pinku from 1971.

Snake Obscene Embrace

1971

No artwork available
4.3

Pinku directed by Kôji Wakamatsu.

Ecstasy of Wickedness

1964

Flowers in the rain poster
NR

A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an innocent crime and a young man who bravely stands up for the truth to help her.

Flowers in the rain

1960

Doronuma no yorokobi poster
NR

Pinku from 1965.

Doronuma no yorokobi

1965

Sweet Trap poster
4.7

An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by yakuza.

Sweet Trap

1963

Michi no Sex poster
5.3

A black and white movie by Osamu Yamashita.

Michi no Sex

1966

Take Aim at the Police Van poster
6.2

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Take Aim at the Police Van

1960

Nagumade Matte poster
NR

Pinku from 1971.

Nagumade Matte

1971

Vice Doctor poster
10.0

Pinku from 1966.

Vice Doctor

1966

Savage Women poster
3.7

Second Pink film by Wakamatsu

Savage Women

1963

Sex Jack poster
5.2

A small gang of revolutionary students is hidden away by a small-time thief. While they are in hiding, everyone except the thief takes turns engaging in sexual activities with a girl who appears unhappy and perhaps unwilling, having had the misfortune of getting involved with them.

Sex Jack

1970

No artwork available
4.7

Probable Pink movie from Koji Wakamatsu.

Mesuinu no Kake

1964

No artwork available
NR

Pinku from 1970.

Majo-gari

1970

An Angel is Chasing Me poster
NR

A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only to find himself embroiled in a thrilling and hilarious journey involving money and women.

An Angel is Chasing Me

1961

No artwork available
NR

Pinku from 1967.

Female Trap

1967

The Staircase of Sex poster
10.0

The Staircase of Sex

The Staircase of Sex

1968

Bondage Nymphomaniac poster
2.0

Toshihiko, a university student, meets a married woman named Chizuko. Chizuko's husband is a pervert who ties her up and tortures her with cruel techniques. Chizuko, who is used to this abnormality, learns true pleasure when Toshihiko embraces her in the missionary position, and the two begin to live in an adulterous love...

Bondage Nymphomaniac

1980

The Woman Who Wanted to Die poster
5.3

Mishima has just committed suicide. Two couples meet by accident at an inn in the countryside, the man and the woman, now, each with a new partner, who knew each other already for ten years...

The Woman Who Wanted to Die

1971

Young Panther poster
NR

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

Young Panther

1959

Behind the camera