Mariko Kawana

Mariko Kawana
Born	November 9, 1967 (1967-11-09) (age 44)[1] , Japan
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Eye colour	Brown
Hair colour	Brown
Ethnicity	Japanese

Mariko Kawana (川奈まり子, Kawana Mariko^?) is a Japanese model and actress who has appeared in both softcore pink film and V-Cinema and has also been a hardcore adult video (AV) performer and director. She is now retired as an actress and has a second career as a writer.

Life and career

Mariko Kawana was born on November 9, 1967^[2] (although some sources give her birth date as August 23, 1967^[3]). After graduating college she worked as a freelance writer and in a publisher's Design Department.^[2]

AV debut

She entered the adult video (AV) industry with her release, 34 Year Old Mother Mariko, for the SOD studio in September 1999, at age thirty-one.^[4] This makes her one of the earliest AV actresses in the "mature woman" or "madame" (熟女 or jukujo) category of performers^[5] whose popularity in Japanese porn began in the mid-1990s.^[6] She appeared in two early videos for Kuki, one in the bukkake genre (Mrs. Shower No. 1)^[7] and the other (Lesbian Heaven Finger Love Vol.11), was part of a lesbian series.^[8] In the softcore field, she starred in the pink film 女医川奈まり子　熟女・タブーＳＥＸ (Joi Kawana Mariko: Jukujo Tabū Sex^?) with Yōko Satomi which was released to theatres in March 2001.^[9]

Kawana appeared in the May 2001 of the magazine Penthouse Japan^[10] and in December 2001, she received the Best Mature Actress award at the 2001 X City Grand Prix Awards.^[11] The year 2002 opened with her starring in a pink film for woman director Sachi Hamano, 川奈まり子　牝猫義母 (Kawana Mariko: Mesuneko Gibo^?)^[12] and included an S&M role in the kunoichi video Kunoichi Is Captured for the Million label.^[13] Kawana had the starring role in the pink film 川奈まり子　桜貝の甘い水 (Kawana Mariko Sakuragai No Amai Mizu^?) released by OP Eiga in March 2002,^[14] which was a posthumous release of pink film pioneer director Satoru Kobayashi who had died in November 2001.^[15]

In November 2002, she was one of three actresses in the DVD "Love simulation game" LOVE TYPE from the VIP studio.^[16] Kawana had previously been in an installment of the Wanz Factory series Performance and Direction where she starred and directed,^[17] and in January 2003, she again took up directorial duties in AV Made by Women which featured actor Taka Kato.^[18] In April 2003 she played the role of the dominant woman in the Attackers S&M video Confinement Insult and in September of that year, she appeared in the Kyōko Aizome directed Lesbian Politicians.^[19]

Retirement and later career

In August 2003, Kawana married AV director Goro Tameike, who had directed her in her debut AV and other works, and retired from the adult video industry. She says that her developing relationship with Tameike since her AV debut changed her and that he was her first true love.^[2] Her retirement video, Mariko Last Love, directed by Tameike, was released by Moodyz in March 2004.^[20] Soon after her retirement, Kawana was the MC at the 20th anniversary celebration for the Japanese magazine "Videoboy" (ビデオボーイ). Among the guests were AV stars Akiho Yoshizawa & Sora Aoi.^[21]

Kawana gave birth to a baby boy in November 2004^[2] and posed for a "very tasteful photobook", Sex Evolution - Mariko Kawana, during her pregnancy.^[22] Since then, in addition to parenting, she has been active as columnist and novelist.^[2][23] She also accompanied her husband (who had directed for SOD for 10 years) to the 4th Annual SOD Awards in December 2005.^[24] In a different area, Kawana's portrait was on the cover of rice packages produced by National Farm, a company started by Ganari Takahashi, the founder of SOD who subsequently went into the agriculture business.^[25]

Kawana and her husband Tameike were both interviewed for Misato Nakayama's study of professionals in the adult industry, 性職者の人々 あの世界の仕事師たち (Sei Shoku Sha No Hitobito Ano Sekai No Shigotoshi Tachi^?), published January 2006 by Ohzora (ISBN 4-7767-9229-X).^[26][27]

Selected filmography

Video title[28]	Release date	Studio	Director	Notes
Adult Videos (AV)
34 Year Old Mother Mariko 義母 ～まり子34歳～	1999-09 (VHS) 2002-03-09 (DVD)	SOD RGO-001 (VHS) SDDL-123 (DVD)	Goro Tameike	AV Debut
Matchless! Beautiful Mature Woman Team 絶倫！美熟女隊.	2000-01-22	h.m.p. GVA-001		With others
Forbidden Private Garden - Kurumi Lesbian Hell 禁断の花園～くるみレズ地獄～	2000-03-05	SOD SDDL-085	Noboru Iguchi	With Kurumi Morishita & Mei Sawaga
New Ofukuro San! 新・おふくろさん！	2000-05-15	V&R Planning UG-004	Eitaro Haga	With Haruna Miwa
Mrs. Shower No.1 ミセスシャワー No.01	2000-10-30	Kuki EG-053	Beat Masai
Lesbian Heaven - Finger Love Vol.11 レズ天国	2001-01-31	Kuki VF-073
Mariko Kawana - Performance and Direction 主演監督 川奈まり子	2001-05-21	Wanz Factory PD-007	Mariko Kawana
Taka Kato's Ecstatic Torture 2 加藤鷹のイカせ拷問 2	2001-07-02	Max-A Gash XG-3330	Hideyuki Gekka	With Madoka Enomoto and Taka Kato
Wives Are Often Liable To Be Done ENEMA[29] 人妻・エネマのよろめき	2001-07-06	CineMagic Memorial CS-284	Noboru Iguchi
GoGo! Ero-Hitchhikers! 2 それゆけ！痴女ヒッチハイカー!!２	2001-09-21	VIP Chao CAO-006		With Aki Sawamiya & Miku Tachibana
Spark	2001-12-27	Leo UM-009	Tadanori Usami	With Aki Sawamiya & Nori Takada
Matsuno Yukihide's Theory of Corruption 松野行秀の堕落論	2002-02-19	Cosmos Plan IG-62	Matsuno Yukihide
Kunoichi Is Captured くノ一が捕まってあんなことも！こんなことも！	2002-02-22	KMP Million MILD-010		With Kyouka Usami
Mariko Kawana in a Coffee Shop for Couples in Gotanda 川奈まり子の潜入五反田カップル喫茶	2002-02-28	VIP Chao CAO-020	Modae
Welcome Back Goddess ... 女神再光臨 ～アナタにまた逢えた～	2002-03-01 (VHS) 2002-04-15 (DVD)	Moodyz Imperial MDI-114 (VHS) MDID-114 (DVD)	Mr. Watakano	Starring Nao Saejima
Horny Women Championship 最強寸止め痴女天下一武道会	2002-03-15 (VHS) 2002-05-24 (DVD)	VIP GOD GOD-114 (VHS) VIPD-095 (DVD)	Takeshi Kase	With 9 other "mature" actresses
Married Woman - The Other Side of Noon 人妻昼顔 完全版 Hitoduma Hirugao	2002-04-19	KMP Million MILV-001 (VHS) MILD-013 (DVD)	Goro Tameike
Female Doctor 女医	2002-04-27	V&R Planning Vogue VO-221	Eitaro Haga	With Nao Saejima
Bakuretsu Mother 爆裂☆お母さんズ	2002-08-01	Moodyz Quest MDQ-031 (VHS) MDQD-031 (DVD)	Goro Tameike	With Tamaki Sakura, Yukari Sakurada & Eriko Goto
LOVE TYPE LOVEタイプ	2002-10-25	Media Bank VIP VIPD-117		With Yuna Akimoto & Kaori Shimizi
Boarding House Widow 未亡人下宿	2002-11-01	Moodyz Moderato MDM-070 (VHS) MDMD-070 (DVD)	Goro Tameike
Enema Shame Zone 13[30] 浣腸コレクション　エネマ痴帯１３	2002-11-08	CineMagic Memorial CS-323	Noboru Iguchi	With Rie Nitta & Momo Kawai
4 Hour Ecstasy イカサレ4時間	2002-11-15	KMP Million RMILD-021	Goro Tameike	With Yukari Sakurada, Aki Sawamiya & Tomoko Minami
AV Made by Women 女だらけのAV撮影隊	2003-01-19	Media Station Tong-Pher TPH-013	Mariko Kawana	With Miyu, Yumina Kujō, Ryō Fubuki, Yui Koike, Natsume Otowa, and actor Taka Kato
Very Best of Million Vol. 1 ベリーベストオブ million VOL.1	2003-02-21	KMP Million MILV-050	Hideto Aki	With Nao Oikawa, Sayaka Tsutsumi & Nin Kasagi
Confinement Insult 龍縛監禁凌辱 聖職崩壊の刻	2003-04-08	Attackers Super Special SSP-004 (VHS) SSPD-004 (DVD)		With Yuri Koizumi, Aki Sawamiya & Yui Kayama
Sexy Primavera 被虐のプリマヴェーラ	2003-04-25	VIP VIP-171	YU-JI	Starring Reika Yoshizawa
Ecstasy	2003-05-21	V&R Planning Pandore PD-002	Eitaro Haga	With Hitomi Shina and Ken Shimizu
Lesbian Politicians 政界レズビアン 女戒	2003-09-19	Alice Japan Babylon KR-9191 (VHS) DV-277 (DVD)	Kyōko Aizome	With Kyōko Aizome, Ai Kurosawa & Hitomi Shimizu
Mariko Last Love	2004-03-15	Moodyz Goro Tameike MDY-007 (VHS) MDYD-007 (DVD)	Goro Tameike	Retirement video

Movie title[31]	Release date	Director	Studio	Notes
Pink film
川奈まり子・現役熟女妻　奥まであたる・・・ Kawana Mariko: Geneki Juku Onna Tsuma Oku Made Ataru	2000-08-11	Futoshi Sakamoto	Xces Film	60 min.
女医川奈まり子　熟女・タブーＳＥＸ Joi Kawana Mariko: Jukujo Tabū Sex	2001-03-02	Noburō Sasaki	Film House Xces	59 min. With Yōko Satomi
玲子の秘密　多淫症の女 Reiko No Himitsu Tain Shō No Onna	2001-10-05	Kunihiko Matsuoka	Xces Film	61 min.
川奈まり子　牝猫義母 Kawana Mariko: Mesuneko Gibo	2002-01-18	Sachi Hamano	Tantansha Xces Film	60 min. With Motoko Sasaki, Kyōko Kazama, Kin'ichi Kusumi, Naohiro Hirakawa & Hidenori Yanagi
川奈まり子　桜貝の甘い水 Kawana Mariko Sakuragai No Amai Mizu	2002-03-09	Satoru Kobayashi	Kobayashi Pro OP Eiga	60 min.

Movie title[31]	Release date	Director	Studio	Notes
V-Cinema
奥様必見！　川奈まり子の人妻愛モード　上司の妻を辱める Okusama Hikken! Kawana Mariko no Hitozuma Ai Mōdo: Jōshi no Tsuma o Hazukashimeru	2001-03-23	Mamoru Watanabe	Engel	70 min. With Yōko Satomi
Nude Special Care Nursing Home 全裸特別○護老人ホーム	2001-09-07	Goro Tameike	SOD SDDC-002	120 min. With Nanami Nanase, Aya Ikeda & others. Kawana co-wrote the screenplay with Tameike.

Notes

1. ^ Infobox data from Videoboy
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "川奈まり子" (in Japanese). Venture-Plus. http://venture-plus.com/news/5992. Retrieved 2010-04-24. 
3. ^ "川奈まり子" (in Japanese). i-dic.dorachan.com. http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?kwnmrk01. Retrieved 2010-04-20. 
4. ^ "1999" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). http://homepage3.nifty.com/kurokami/years/years_1999.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-22. 
5. ^ Otsubo, Kemuta (July 30, 2008). "伝説熟女・牧原れい子復活！" (in Japanese). AllAbout. http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/adultvideo/closeup/CU20080730A/. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
6. ^ "Satomi Shinozaki biography". Shin-Toho History. Archived from the original on 2007-05-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20070515003453/http://xxx.xcity.jp/SHIN-TOHO/HISTORY/S_SHINOZAKI/index.html. Retrieved 2007-02-18. 
7. ^ "Mrs. Shower No.1". AV Idol Directory. http://xxx.xcity.jp/avod/detail/?id=4091. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 
8. ^ "Lesbian Heaven Finger Love Vol.11". AV Idol Directory. http://xxx.xcity.jp/release/detail/?id=4486. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 
9. ^ "女医川奈まり子　熟女・タブーＳＥＸ" (in Japanese). JMDB. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2001/dy000590.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 
10. ^ "ＰＥＮＴＯＨＯＵＳＥ　ＪＡＰＡＮ" (in Japanese). www.accesstry.com. http://www.accesstry.com/aidoru/aidoru-PENT.html. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 
11. ^ "Adult Video Grandprix 2001". X City. Archived from the original on 2005-12-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20051212142951/http://xxx.xcity.jp/CITY_ORG/grandprix2001/PRIZE/result.html. Retrieved 2010-07-28. 
12. ^ "川奈まり子　牝猫義母" (in Japanese). JMDB. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2002/dz000090.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 
13. ^ "くノ一が捕まってあんなことも！こんなことも！" (in Japanese). www.km-produce.com. http://www.km-produce.com/works/detail.php?tid=7764. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 
14. ^ "川奈まり子　桜貝の甘い水" (in Japanese). JMDB. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2002/dz000850.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-23. 
15. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 340. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 
16. ^ "LOVE TYPE". AV Idol Directory. http://xxx.xcity.jp/release/detail/?id=7348. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 
17. ^ "主演監督 川奈まり子 (VHS)" (in Japanese). DMM. http://www.dmm.co.jp/mono/vhs/-/detail/=/cid=3pd007/. Retrieved 2010-04-24. 
18. ^ "AV Made by Women". AV Idol Directory. http://xxx.xcity.jp/release/detail/?id=7733. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 
19. ^ "Lesbian Politicians". AV Idol Directory. http://xxx.xcity.jp/release/detail/?id=8980. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 
20. ^ "Mariko Last Love" (in Japanese). Moodyz. http://www.moodyz.com/shop/-/detail/=/cid=mdy007/. Retrieved 2010-04-24. 
21. ^ Otsubo, Kemuta (May 20, 2004). "女の子とＡＶファンの熱で首都炎上！　ＡＶイベント春の陣・開催！前編" (in Japanese). AllAbout. http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/adultvideo/closeup/CU20040628C/index2.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
22. ^ "Sex Evolution -- Mariko Kawana". www.peterpayne.net. 2005-01-22. http://www.peterpayne.net/2005/01/green-tea-or-bust.html. Retrieved 2010-04-24. 
23. ^ Otsubo, Kemuta. "ＡＶ女優ファンサイト(既引退)" (in Japanese). AllAbout. http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/adultvideo/subject/msubsub_jyoyufanintai.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
24. ^ Otsubo, Kemuta (December 14, 2005). "速報！ＳＯＤ大賞2005＆「AV OPEN」発表" (in Japanese). AllAbout. http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/adultvideo/closeup/CU20051214A/index2.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
25. ^ Otsubo, Kemuta (December 16, 2006). "高橋がなりの新提案・ＡＶショップで米を買おう" (in Japanese). AllAbout. http://allabout.co.jp/entertainment/adultvideo/closeup/CU20061216A/index2.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
26. ^ "性職者の人々" (in Japanese). shop.tsutaya.co.jp. http://shop.tsutaya.co.jp/book/product/9784776792291/. Retrieved 2010-04-26. 
27. ^ "性職者の人々?あの世界の仕事師たち" (in Japanese). Ohzora. http://www.ohzora.co.jp/release/detail/?format=biblio&isbn=4-7767-9229-X. Retrieved 2010-04-26. 
28. ^ Filmography from "Mariko Kawana 川奈まり子". Urabon Navigator. http://urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n1417&mode=movies. Retrieved 2010-04-22. , "Mariko Kawana". AV Idol Directory. http://xxx.xcity.jp/idol/detail/?id=2631&style=simple. Retrieved 2010-08-06.  and "AV女優 > 川奈まり子(かわなまりこ)" (in Japanese). DMM. http://www.dmm.co.jp/mono/dvd/-/list/=/article=actress/id=1952/. Retrieved 2010-04-26. 
29. ^ "メモリアルビデオ (Memorial Video) p.12" (in Japanese). www.cinemagic.co.jp/catalogue. http://www.cinemagic.co.jp/catalogue/cs0012.html. Retrieved 2010-04-26. 
30. ^ "メモリアルビデオ (Memorial Video) p.16" (in Japanese). www.cinemagic.co.jp/catalogue. http://www.cinemagic.co.jp/catalogue/cs0016.html. Retrieved 2010-04-26. 
31. ^ ^{a b} Filmography from "川奈まり子" (in Japanese). JMDB. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0786130.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-23.  and "川奈まり子 かわな・まりこ" (in Japanese). AllCinema. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=300572#1. Retrieved 2010-04-23. 

External links

• Mariko Kawana at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Kawana, Mariko
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Date of birth	1967-11-09
Place of birth	, Japan
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