is a Japanese Jazz singer, actress, author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

, gravure model and AV actress

AV Idol

An AV idol is a Japanese idol who works in the pornographic business, often both as an actress as well as a model as the video performances have a wide range, from just the idol strolling around their house doing chores in bikinis to hardcore porn...

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Life and career

Kei Marimura was born on August 29, 1927 in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

. Graduating from the Shōei Joshi Gakuin Junior and Senior High School, she made her debut as jazz singer in 1982 through the Toho

Toho

is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company. It is headquartered in Yūrakuchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group...

 College of Music.

She also worked as an actress, appearing in many movies, TV-dramas and V-Cinema releases

V-Cinema

Japanese is the direct-to-video industry that appeared in Japan in the 1980s. The term is a trademark of Toei Company but is widely used in the West to describe any Japanese direct-to-video release. In Japan the term used is...

. In 2009, at 52, she made her debut as AV actress with the label Alice Japan

Alice Japan

was established on April 4, 1986 as the adult video label for Japan Home Video .-Company information:The early AVs produced by JHV went under the Penguin label, the first title being the 30 minute long softcore Asobinasareya, Tadakurue starring Hidemi Nakajima released May 21, 1984 with...

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In 2011 she released her first novel, Intimacy (インティマシー).

Discography

Album

• Elegance (1982, Disco-Mate, DSP-4006)
• Mood Indigo (1982, Disco-Mate, DSP-4007)
• The man I love (1983, Disco-Mate, DSP-5118)
• P.S. I Love you (1983, Teichiku / Continental, DSP-5120)
• Beautiful Dreamer (live, 1984, Disco-Mate, DSP-5121)
• Tiempo de Amor (1985, Continental, CI-40)
• La Califusa (1986, Continental, CI-41)
• Nouveau (1991, Teichiku, TECN-28082)
• Mucho Mucho (1992,Teichiku, TECN-30194)
• ブリリアント・ベスト (Best of, 2010, Teichiku, TECN-30211/2)

Movies

• Mysterious Country Japan (ふしぎな国日本, 1982)
• Yasha (夜叉, 1985)
• The most dangerous criminal (もっともあぶない刑事, 1989)
• Death Subeshi beast (野獣死すべし, 1997)
• Moonlight Whispers
  Moonlight Whispers
  is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Akihiko Shiota. The film is based on the manga Gekko no sasayaki.Boy meets girl , they fall in love...
  
  (月光の囁き, 1998)
• Girl came from the sea - Mermaid (マーメイド～海から来た少女, 2001), also written and directed
• Midday Flowers (真昼の花, 2005), singing

V-Cinema

• Only evil (悪人専用, 1990)
• Symphony of the sensual wife Karuizawa (軽井沢夫人 官能の夜想曲, 1996)
• XX: Beautiful Prey
  XX: Beautiful Prey
  is a 1996 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. The film stars Kei Marimura, Makiko Watanabe and Ren Ōsugi....
  
  (ＸＸ　美しき獲物, 1996)
• Women (id., 1997)
• Another XX (アナザーXX, 1998)
• Ecstasy (エクスタシー , 2001)
• Red Spider (赤蜘蛛, 2004)

Adult Video

• Jyoji (September 25, 2009, Alice JAPAN)
• Jyoji II (March 12, 2010, Alice JAPAN)
• Lady Stockings (November 12, 2010, Alice JAPAN)
• Tokyo nightclub - Jyoji Beginning (November 11, 2011, Alice JAPAN)

Television

• At night the mood (夜は気分で, 1982–1983) - Host
• We're funny family (オレたちひょうきん族, 1982–1983)
• Our first experience of wives (妻たちの初体験, 1986)
• Metropolitan at 25 (大都会25時, 1987)
• Tetsuko Room (徹子の部屋, 1987)
• One photograph (一枚の写真, 1991)
• Autumn murderer (秋の殺人者, 1995)
• Good Luck (グッドラック, 1996)
• Witch legend (鬼女伝説, 2003)
• Stay at the countryside! (田舎に泊まろう!, 2008)
• BS-TBS Imperial Jazz 2009 (2009)

Photo Books

• ドレス
• Imprevu
• Speak Low
• Higher Self
• R指定
• 軽蔑
• BLACK BOX
• 上海ラプソディー
• Pandora

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