Other names Tomoko Ino | Height 1.59 m (5 ft 2 ⁄2 in) Name Rena Murakami | |
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Born November 25, 1967 (age 56) ( 1967-11-25 ) Tokyo, Japan | ||
Rena Murakami (Japanese: 村上 麗奈, Hepburn: Murakami Rena, Cantonese Yale: Chyun1 Seung5 Lai6 Noi6) is a Japanese actress and former AV idol.
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Life and career
After beginning her career as a gravure idol, Murakami made her adult video (AV) debut in the March 1988 h.m.p. Miss Christine release, Hatsujō Kansen (発情感染). In December of her debut year she also had a role in Toei's mainstream drama release, Koiko no mainichi (恋子の毎日).
In addition to continuing her AV career, Murakami had another role in a mainstream drama, appearing in Bandai Visual's Shin dōtei monogatari: Hong Kong virgin boy (新・童貞物語 ホンコンバージンボーイ) in March 1990. Also in 1990 she appeared in pioneering pink film director/producer Kan Mukai's Code Name 348: Onna keiji sashiba (コードネーム３４８ 女刑事 サシバ). Also during this period, she had roles in a number of softcore V-Cinema films.
Following her adult videos' popularity in Hong Kong, she moved there around 1990 or 1991 to work as a stripper. She then shifted to cinema. Her first film of success was Category III classic Sex and Zen in 1991. In a review of the DVD release of Sex and Zen, a reviewer described her as one of "Asian cinema's most beautiful actresses". Around 1993, she moved back to Japan. She worked at the famous Asakusa strip theatre Rokku-za (ロック座). She caused a minor scandal when news leaked that she had sex with the Sultan of Brunei during his visit to Japan in 1993.
In 1997 she produced and starred in the pink film Murakami Rena: kyūkyoku meigizuma (村上麗奈 究極名器妻), through Runa Films. The film was distributed theatrically by XCes, scripted by pink film actress Kiyomi Itō, and directed by Satoru Kobayashi, director of the first pink film, Flesh Market (1962). The film was re-issued in June 2003 as 村上麗奈 極上けいれん妻. More recently, Murakami had a small part in the November 2008 Japanese comedy, Serial Dad (小森生活向上クラブ, Komori seikatsu kōjō kurabu).