Reiko Oshida
Encyclopedia
Reiko Oshida is a Japanese actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in Toei
's action/erotic "Pinky Violence" series, which the company designed to compete with the popular independent genre
of movies known as "pink film."
, Illinois
). This led to a role in the Daiei Studios film School for Thieves (Kigeki: dôrobô gakkô, 1968). She subsequently appeared in all four of Toei Company's Delinquent Girl Boss films.
Unusually for a pink film actress, Oshida did not appear nude in any of her films. After the pink film's heyday of the 1970s passed, Oshida continued to appear in other roles. Her most recent appearance was in the 2005 film Satoru: Fourteen (Shonen to hoshi to jitensha). She also had a brief career as a J-pop
singer in the 1970s.
Toei Company
is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution corporation. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan, a modest vertically-integrated studio system by the standards of the 1930s United States; operates studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a...
's action/erotic "Pinky Violence" series, which the company designed to compete with the popular independent genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
of movies known as "pink film."
Biography
Oshida's career started after winning the 1966 International Teen Princess pageant (held in ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
). This led to a role in the Daiei Studios film School for Thieves (Kigeki: dôrobô gakkô, 1968). She subsequently appeared in all four of Toei Company's Delinquent Girl Boss films.
Unusually for a pink film actress, Oshida did not appear nude in any of her films. After the pink film's heyday of the 1970s passed, Oshida continued to appear in other roles. Her most recent appearance was in the 2005 film Satoru: Fourteen (Shonen to hoshi to jitensha). She also had a brief career as a J-pop
J-pop
, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...
singer in the 1970s.
Selected filmography
- School for Thieves (Kigeki: dôrobô gakkô, 1968)
- Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Mekurano Oichi inochi moraimasu, 1970)
- Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (Yume Wa Yoru Hirakua aka Tokyo Bad Girls / ずべ公番長 夢は夜ひらく, 1970)
- Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters (Zubekô banchô: Tokyo Nagaremono aka Girl Vagrants of Tokyo / ずべ公番長 東京流れ者, 1970)
- Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad Of Yokohama Hoods (Zubekô banchô: Hamagure Kazoe Uta / ずべ公番長 はまぐれ数え唄, 1971)
- Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai / ずべ公番長 ざんげの値打もない, 1971)
- Jealousy Game (1982)
- Mayumi: Virgin TerroristMayumi (film)Mayumi is a 1990 South Korean film directed by Shin Sang-ok.-Plot:Two North Koreans carrying Japanese passports bearing the names "Shin Ichi" and "Ma Yumi" plan to explode a Seoul-bound plane in mid-air. They are diverted to another plane after they have planted the bomb. When the plane crashes,...
(Mayumi, 1990) - Jigoru koppu: roppongi Akasaka bishoinen kurabu (1990)
- Satoru: Fourteen (Shonen to hoshi to jitensha, 2005)