Reiko Ike

Acting

Reiko Ike

Born 1953-05-25 · Tokyo, Japan

Reiko Ike is a Japanese actress, singer, and idol born on May 25, 1953, in Tokyo. She was one of the leading figures of pinku eiga (Japanese erotic films) in the 1970s. Reiko Ike began her film career in 1971 at the age of 18, under contract with Toei, a major Japanese studio. She quickly became a star of the pinku eiga genre, where she played femme fatale roles that often blended eroticism, violence, and dramatic plots. Her most famous films include: Alongside her film career, Reiko Ike was also a singer. She released several singles and albums, often tied to her films. Her songs, such as “Urami Bushi” (1973) and “Onna no Yume” (1974), blended pop, rock, and yakuza influences, reflecting the aesthetic of her films. She even recorded duets with other pinku eiga stars, such as Miki Sugimoto. Her personal life was marked by scandals. In the 1980s, she was arrested several times for drug possession and use, illegal gambling, and alleged ties to the Japanese criminal underworld (yakuza). These incidents brought an end to her film and music career. After her final arrest in 1982, she disappeared from the spotlight and left the entertainment industry. Reiko Ike attempted a low-key comeback in the 1990s, notably by appearing in documentaries about pinku eiga and giving interviews. She remains a cult figure among fans of 1970s Japanese cinema, often cited as one of the genre’s most iconic actresses. In 2020, she gave an interview to a Japanese media outlet, reminiscing nostalgically about her career and the excesses of her youth. Today, she lives in seclusion from public life, far from the spotlight.

Acting credits

Female Yakuza Tale poster
6.1

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

Female Yakuza Tale

1973

Bohachi Bushido: The Villain poster
6.5

The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When threatened by a competitor, they employ Saburai, a nihilistic ronin on the verge of self destruction. Blood gushes and limbs fly for anyone who stands against Saburai as he instills the Way of the Bohachi.

Bohachi Bushido: The Villain

1974

Sex and Fury poster
6.2

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.

Sex and Fury

1973

Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown poster
6.5

Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.

Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown

1974

Girl Boss Guerilla poster
6.0

Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there.

Girl Boss Guerilla

1972

Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses poster
4.3

The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. But the double finds pleasure not only in women, but in his new status.

Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses

1972

Battles Without Honor and Humanity poster
7.3

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom poster
6.2

Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They're approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who promises to help them exact vengeance in exchange for setting up a corrupt local politician, and aided by a independent Yakuza biker chick (Reiko Ike).

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

1973

Graveyard of Honor poster
6.7

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Graveyard of Honor

1975

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge poster
5.5

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge

1974

Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban poster
5.5

The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by sinister underworld thugs. After breaking free, the girls set their sights on one thing: revenge. Miki Sugimoto stars as girl boss Komasa, the ruthless and sadistic leader of the Kanto Gypsies who possesses more than enough brains to match her killer looks.

Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War poster
7.0

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates poster
5.1

We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high school administration where institutionalized sexual abuse is endemic. The tables are turned on the principal and sanctimonious teachers as well as an American priest when the adult evildoers are publicly humiliated and exposed before the entire student body.

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates

1973

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha poster
4.2

Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "the sensation of worms wiggling about"... that won her her nickname (Mimizu = earthworm).

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

1971

Cops vs. Thugs poster
6.1

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.

Cops vs. Thugs

1975

Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom poster
6.1

Delinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after the dramatic deaths of her parents. She plays the piano, but stands up against her lecherous guardian, who is also a school official.

Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom

1972

Dog of Fortune poster
5.7

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.

Dog of Fortune

1979

Down with The Big Boss poster
8.0

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.

Down with The Big Boss

1979

Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group poster
8.0

A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's gang in a democratic vote - and win. That causes her trouble in school, just when her own father, who owns a truck transport company, is murdered in a fake car accident by an American mobster. Before the girl can react, her naive mother has signed over the company to the mobster, and accepted him as her lover. Repentant, the mother starts drinking, and the good schoolgirl ties up with a halfbreed young man, who also has a grudge against Americans. He starts spying on the gangsters, discovers they are dealing in drugs, but is killed before he can report it. The good girl will lead her team in a desperation assault on the mobsters - and the police will eventually arrive just in time for the showdown.

Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group

1973

The Red Silk Gambler poster
7.2

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone gambler; Onaka, a thief who’s after Okatsu to avenge her father’s death; Ohide, a tattoo artist whose back is covered by a dragon tattoo; and Oryu, a young girl sold as a prostitute to a gambling family.

The Red Silk Gambler

1972

The Bedevilled poster
5.0

In a small town found the only son of possession, the local, most influential family, dead and naked in vinbutiks hostess, Cheng Niang. His father insists that there is a murder committed by Chai-Tseng Chu, Cheng Niang husband. Tseng claims he is innocent. However, Cheng Niang has disappeared. Old Lin then tries to bribe Magistrate Tang judging Tseng to death and execute him immediately. Cheng Niang learns about her husband's death and freezing. Judge Tang is guilty and begins to see ghosts every night

The Bedevilled

1975

Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences poster
6.5

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences

1972

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody poster
6.7

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

1973

Girl Boss Blues - Queen Bee's Challenge poster
6.0

When two Girl Bosses fight each other over territory, their enmity is difficult to solve - they are equals in looks, strength, determination, and power of their respective girl gangs. So, the way is open to a mischievous Yakuza Boss who invites them for a peaceful way to decide their feud: a sexual challenge for him to decide who is the better Girl Boss. Trapped, both are subject to the man's lust and sadistic assaults. They escape by joining forces against the yakuza gang, though it costs one of the young women her life - when she was friends already with her former enemy.

Girl Boss Blues - Queen Bee's Challenge

1972