is a Japanese porn actress, singer, writer, and AV and film director. She has been called "the first hard-core porn actress in Japan".
Life and career
Early life
Kyōko Aizome was born in Noda, Chiba Prefecture. She grew up in a troubled household, her father was a police officer who beat his wife, and her parents divorced about 1974, when Aizome was 16 years old. but the film became a hit with theatrical audiences. Uncensored copies of the film were also circulated illegally.
After Daydream
After Daydream, Aizome became active in Japan's prolific adult video and pink film industries. She made her debut in the still-young AV industry in November 1981 with April of Lust for director Tadashi Yoyogi, making her one of Japan's earliest AV idols. Her name became a marketing tool and was used in the titles of such later theatrical releases as Yoyogi's Kyōko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence () (1983) and Shin'ya Yamamoto's Kyōko Aizome's Widow's Boarding House () (1984).
Aizome's fame also led her to embark on a successful live-performance career in striptease, which lasted until her retirement in July 1994. While engaged in stripping, she was arrested twice in 1983 for indecent exposure. She used her jail time to review her career and rededicate herself to a life in adult entertainment. She also resolved to build a two-story, six-bedroom house in Chiba Prefecture, which she gave to her mother.
Aizome gained an international audience in the 1986 Traci Lords film, Traci Takes Tokyo. With her name mis-credited as "Kyōko Izoma", the porn-video was shot in Tokyo before Lords' scandal, and is therefore now illegal in the U.S.
Takechi Tetsuji filmed Daydream for the third time in 1987, as Daydream 2 ('), and again hired Aizome for the lead role. According to the Weissers, each filming of Daydream had become progressively more exploitive, with the last, imported to the United States under the title Captured For Sex having the lowest production values and focusing most on sex and a torture orgy.
Later career
She retired from regular performances in pornography in 1994, but continued to act in erotic films occasionally in later years. She would also work behind the camera in the industry in various capacities including writing and directing. In 2001 Aizome was writing a sex- and health-advice column for women in Japan, An adult video starring the two actresses and also directed by Aizome followed in March. Entitled Lesbian Wives, the video had Aizome and Kobayashi playing the wives of two yakuza bosses who become engaged in a lesbian relationship. Two years later, she directed the AV Lesbian Politicians (2003), in which she also co-starred with the popular award-winning AV actress Ai Kurosawa. In late 2003, she directed and co-starred with another "mature" AV actress, Eri Kikuchi, in the softcore film Double G-Spot: Kyôko Aizome vs. Eri Kikuchi.
In October 2005, she starred in the Madonna hardcore AV Widow's Obscene Desire (), which won her a Madonna Best Actress Award at the 2005 Moodyz Awards. She also appeared in a further video for Madonna, Mother and Son Incest () with Yume Imano in May 2006 when Aizome was 48 years old.
Aizome's name was in the news again in 2007 when she was arrested for beating her niece. Aizome admitted to the allegations and was fined 500,000 yen. She explained, "I hit my niece to punish her for dating my boyfriend. But it went too far." In March 2010, she played the female lead as Kikue, a masochistic elderly woman in The Slave Ship, an adaptation of Oniroku Dan novella . Six months later she starred in her retirement adult video Retirement, the Last Production for Moodyz at age 52.
Selected filmography
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Theatrical films
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| <!-- Film -->Daydream<br /><br />Hakujitsumu
| <!-- Released-->1981-09-12
| <!-- Company-->
| <!-- Director-->Tetsuji Takechi
| <!-- Notes-->Debut role<br />With Kei Satō & Takemi Katsushika
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film --> <br /><br />Karei Naru ai no Henreki Aizome Kyōko
| <!-- Released-->1982-08-14
| <!-- Company-->Joy Pack
| <!-- Director-->Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->With Masayoshi Nogami
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Kyōko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence<br /><br />Aizome Kyōko Kareinaru Tsuioku
| <!-- Released-->1983-03-11
| <!-- Company-->Joy Pack
| <!-- Director-->Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->With Masayoshi Nogami & Matsu Takada
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Kyōko Aizome's Widow's Boarding House<br /><br />Aizome Kyōko no Mibōjin Geshuku
| <!-- Released-->1984-12-22
| <!-- Company-->Nikkatsu
| <!-- Director-->Shin'ya Yamamoto (director)
| <!-- Notes--> With Kate Asabuki
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Daydream 2<br /><br />Hakujitsumu Zoku
| <!-- Released-->1987-02-07
| <!-- Company-->
| <!-- Director-->Tetsuji Takechi
| <!-- Notes-->With Kei Satō & Kenji Hayami
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Early Afternoon Love Affair<br /><br />Hirusagari no Jōji
| <!-- Released-->1993-12-23
| <!-- Company-->Excess
| <!-- Director-->Yukio Kitazawa
| <!-- Notes-->With Manami Ogawa
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Kyōko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition<br /><br />Aizome Kyōko VS Kobayashi Hitomi Hatsujō Kurabe
| <!-- Released-->2001-02-02
| <!-- Company-->Excess
| <!-- Director-->Kyōko Aizome
| <!-- Notes-->With Hitomi Kobayashi
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Double G-Spot: Kyôko Aizome vs. Eri Kikuchi<br /><br />Aizome Kyōko vs Kikuchi Eri: Daburu G Supotto
| <!-- Released-->2003-12-26
| <!-- Company-->Shintōhō Eiga
| <!-- Director-->Kyōko Aizome
| <!-- Notes-->With Eri Kikuchi & Kyōko Kazama<br />Also released as a DVD by Japan Home Video
|- style=background:#fff;
| The Slave Ship<br /><br />Dorei-sen
| 2010–03-10
| Shintōhō Eiga
| Satoshi Kaneda
| With Tarō Suwa
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Adult videos (AV)
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| <!-- Film -->April of Lust<br /><br />Inyoku no Uzuki
| <!-- Released-->1981-11
| <!-- Company-->Japan Video<br />(日本ビデオ映像)
| <!-- Director-->Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->Debut AV
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Dizziness Kyoko Aizome<br />
| <!-- Released-->1982-01-01
| <!-- Company-->Athena Eizou
| <!-- Director-->Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Secret Sexual Technique Part 1: Soaking Wet<br />
| <!-- Released-->1983
| <!-- Company-->Athena Eizou / Mimizuku Video Pack<br />MV-9063
| <!-- Director-->Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Secret Sexual Technique Special<br />
| <!-- Released-->1984
| <!-- Company-->Athena Eizou<br />AV-T905
| <!-- Director-->Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Psycho Hypnotic Ecstasy Part 1 <br />
| <!-- Released-->1985
| <!-- Company-->Athena Eizou<br />AS-603
| <!-- Director-->Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Traci Takes Tokyo
| <!-- Released-->1986
| <!-- Company-->
| <!-- Director-->Steven Cartier<br />Tadashi Yoyogi
| <!-- Notes-->With Traci Lords & Don Fernando
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Three Mature Sisters Chapter 1<br />
| <!-- Released-->1999-07-15
|| <!-- Company-->V&R Planning Ume<br />SER-022
| <!-- Director-->Eitaro Haga
| <!-- Notes-->With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Three Mature Sisters Chapter 2<br />
| <!-- Released-->1999-07-15
|| <!-- Company-->V&R Planning Ume<br />SER-023
| <!-- Director-->Eitaro Haga
| <!-- Notes-->With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Three Mature Sisters Chapter 3<br />
| <!-- Released-->1999-07-15
|| <!-- Company-->V&R Planning Ume<br />SER-024
| <!-- Director-->Eitaro Haga
| <!-- Notes-->With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Three Mature Sisters Chapter 4<br />
| <!-- Released-->1999-07-15
|| <!-- Company-->V&R Planning Ume<br />SER-025
| <!-- Director-->Eitaro Haga
| <!-- Notes-->With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Three Mature Sisters Chapter 5<br />
| <!-- Released-->1999-07-15
|| <!-- Company-->V&R Planning Ume<br />SER-026
| <!-- Director-->Eitaro Haga
| <!-- Notes-->With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Lesbian Wives<br />
| <!-- Released-->2001-03-16
| <!-- Company-->Alice Japan Babylon<br />KR-9144
| <!-- Director-->Kyōko Aizome
| <!-- Notes-->With Hitomi Kobayashi
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Mellow Sales Lady<br />
| <!-- Released-->2001-04-21
| <!-- Company-->Shy Plan Bold<br />BL-068
| <!-- Director-->Satoru Kobayashi
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Molester In A Hospital<br />
| <!-- Released-->2002-10-25
| <!-- Company-->Alice Japan Babylon<br />KR-9172
| <!-- Director-->Kyōko Aizome
| <!-- Notes-->With Yuri Komuro & Mayumi Sawaki
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->G Pleasure<br />
| <!-- Released-->2002-12-24
| <!-- Company-->Alice Japan Erotica<br />KS-8562
| <!-- Director-->Kyōko Aizome
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Crimson Sisters<br />
| <!-- Released-->2003-01-24
| <!-- Company-->CineMagic Collect<br />DD-052
| <!-- Director-->Oniroku Dan
| <!-- Notes-->With Minako Ogawa & Mayumi Sawaki
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Princess Hunting<br />
| <!-- Released-->2003-02-25
| <!-- Company-->Alice Japan Babylon<br />KR-9178
| <!-- Director-->Kenichi Fujiwara
| <!-- Notes-->With Kyōko Kazama & Moe Nishimura
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Kyoko Aizome Special<br />
| <!-- Released-->2003-04-18
| <!-- Company-->Alice Japan<br />DV-235 (DVD)
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Notes-->Compilation DVD
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Lesbian Politicians<br />
| <!-- Released-->2003-09-19
| <!-- Company-->Alice Japan Babylon<br />KR-9191 (VHS)<br />DV-277 (DVD)
| <!-- Director-->Kyōko Aizome
| <!-- Notes-->With Ai Kurosawa, Hitomi Shimizu & Mariko Kawana
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Kyōko Aizome vs Eri Kikuchi Double G-spot<br />
| <!-- Released-->2004-09-30
| <!-- Company-->Alice Japan Babylon<br />KR-9217 (VHS)<br />DV-396 (DVD)
| <!-- Director-->Kyōko Aizome
| <!-- Notes-->With Eri Kikuchi
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film -->Love Sexuality<br />
| <!-- Released-->2005-02-25
| <!-- Company-->Kazoo Planning Sizzle<br />SCS-01
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Notes-->Gravure video (non-sex)
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Widow's Obscene Desire<br />
| <!-- Released-->2005-10-25
| <!-- Company-->Madonna<br />JUKD-284
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#fff;
| <!-- Film --> Mother and Son Incest<br />
| <!-- Released-->2006-05-25
| <!-- Company-->Madonna<br />JUKD-400
| <!-- Director-->
| <!-- Notes-->
|- style=background:#f7f7f7;
| <!-- Film -->Retirement, the Last Production<br />
| <!-- Released-->2010-09-13
| <!-- Company-->Moodyz Gati<br />MIGD-356
| <!-- Director-->Hara Ichigo
| <!-- Notes-->
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Sources
- description of Hakujitsumu and Aizome – cult-films review site
References
External links
- Kyōko Aizome's personal website (in Japanese)