Tamaki Katori

Tamaki Katori
香取環
Born(1938-10-21)21 October 1938
Kumamoto, Japan
Died12 October 2015(2015-10-12) (aged 76)

Tamaki Katori (香取環, 21 October 1938 – 12 October 2015) was a Japanese actress best known for her appearances in "pink film" during the 1960s and early 1970s.[1] Katori was the star of Flesh Market (1962), the first of these softcore pornographic films made in Japan.[2][3] With over 600 film credits between 1962 and 1972, she was one of the most prolific Japanese adult film actresses of the 1960s, and became known as the "Pink Princess" of the first wave of pink films.[3][4]

  1. ^ "さよなら、香取環" (in Japanese).
  2. ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 20, 22, 317. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  3. ^ a b Connell, Ryann (March 2, 2006). "Japan's former Pink Princess trades raunchy scenes for rural canteen". Mainichi Shimbun. Retrieved 2007-11-12.[dead link‍]
  4. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.