Rena Murakami

Rena Murakami
Born	November 25, 1967 (1967-11-25) (age 43)[1] Tokyo, Japan
Alias(es)	Tomoko Ino
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Eye colour	Brown
Hair colour	Black
Ethnicity	Japanese

Rena Murakami (村上 麗奈, Murakami Rena^?, Cantonese Yale: Chyun1 Seung5 Lai6 Noi6) is a Japanese actress and former AV idol.

Life and career

After beginning her career as a gravure idol, Murakami made her AV debut in the March 1988 h.m.p. Miss Christine release, Hatsujō Kansen (発情感染^?).^[2] In December of her debut year she had a role in Toei's mainstream drama release, Koiko no mainichi (恋子の毎日^?).^[3] She had another role in a mainstream drama, appearing in Bandai'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.^[4] 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^?).^[5] In addition, she had roles in a number of softcore V-Cinema films during this period.^[6]

Following her adult videos' popularity in Hong Kong, she moved there around 1990 or 1991 to work as a stripper.^[7] 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".^[8] 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.^[9][10]

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.^[11][12] The film was distributed theatrically by XCes, scripted by pink film actress Kiyomi Itō, and directed by Satoru Kobayashi,^[13] director of the first pink film, Flesh Market (1962).^[14] The film was re-issued in June 2003 as 村上麗奈　極上けいれん妻.^[15] Most recently, Murakami appeared in the November 2008 Japanese release, Serial Dad (小森生活向上クラブ, Komori seikatsu kōjō kurabu^?).^[16]

Partial filmography

Adult Videos (AV)

Title[17]	Release date	Director	Studio	Notes
Hatsujō Kansen 発情感染	1988-03		h.m.p. Miss Christine	AV Debut
Private 私小説　彩られた肉肌	1988-06-17		VIP 5C-034
Rena Murakami Final Ecstacy 村上麗奈ラスト・インサート　東京淫女	1988	Ryuichi Hiroki	Athena Eizou AS-113
Completely Lewd 淫熟	1989-01-10		Alice Japan KA-1221
Reiko Kiyomi Rena - Triple Horny Girls Can Not Be Patient レイコ･清美･麗奈のガマンできない娘たち トリプルエッチ	1989		h.m.p. Miss Christine SMC-016	With Reiko Hayama & Kiyomi Azuma
Rena Murakami[18] 村上麗奈	1993			Hong Kong
Kozenwaisetsu 4 Rena Murakami 口全ワイセツ ４ 村上麗奈	1993		h.m.p. Samm DSV-030
History of Rena Murakami[19] 村上麗奈HISTORY	2006-09-22	Taro Matsumoto	Atlas21 RDA06-091	Compilation of two of her VIP videos from 1988

Hong Kong films

Title[20]	Release date	Director	Studio	Notes
Hidden Desire 我為卿狂	1991-11-15	Ho Fan 何藩	Golden Harvest
Sex and Zen 玉蒲團之偷情寶鑑	1991-11-30	Michael Mak	Golden Harvest
Escape from Brothel 花街狂奔	1992-02-29	Wang Lung-wei	Chinachem Cinema Circuit 華懋
Unforgetful Holiday 三級七日情	1992-10-01	Sherman Wong 黃靖華	Imperial 京都
All Over the World 大昅野	1993-01-07		Regal 永高	cameo/herself
1/3 Lover 1/3情人	1993	Tommy Wong 王振仰
Dream Lovers 青春夢裡人	1994

Japanese non-AV filmography

Title[21]	Release date	Director	Studio	Notes
Koiko no mainichi 恋子の毎日	1988-12-17	Kanji Amao	Tōei
Strawberry Times 2: Santa ga koishi niyattekita ストロベリータイムス２　サンタが恋しにやってきた	1989-11	Kazuhiro Onohara	Bandai Visual	V-Cinema
Shin dōtei monogatari: Hong Kong virgin boy 新・童貞物語　ホンコンバージンボーイ	1990-03-10	Tomioka Tadahumi	Bandai Visual
Code Name 348: Onna keiji sashiba コードネーム３４８　女刑事　サシバ	1990-12-10	Kan Mukai	Shochiku Video	V-Cinema
Kyonyū Hunter 2: Adventure Summer 巨乳ハンター２　アドベンチャー・サマー	1990-12-25	Toshio Kobayashi	Tohokushinsha Film	V-Cinema
Kedamono kemono ＫＥＤＡＭＯＮＯ　獣	1993	Yukari Ōshima	ＩＳＥＭＯＴＯ	V-Cinema
Murakami Rena: kyūkyoku meigizuma 村上麗奈　究極名器妻 　レナ・フィルム	1997-08-01	Satoru Kobayashi	Runa Films XCes	produced and starred

Magazine appearances

• Goro^[22]
  • November 24, 1988 (#23, nude, with Reiko Hayama)
  • December 8, 1988 (#24, nude)
• Heibon Punch^[23]
  • May 5, 1988 (4 p., nude)
• Weekly Playboy
  • 1988^[24]
    • April 5, 1988 (5 p., nude)
    • July 19, 1988 (3 p., swimming suit)
    • September 20, 1988 (4p., nude)
  • 1989^[25]
    • March 21, 1989 (6 p., nude)
    • August 15, 1989 (7 p., nude)
  • 1992^[26]
    • November 24, 1992 (nude)

Bibliography

English

• Rena Murakami at the Internet Movie Database
• "RENA MURAKAMI". Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/person311209.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 

Japanese

• "村上麗奈 むらかみ・れな" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=45972. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
• "村上麗奈 (Profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). www.dmm.co.jp. http://actress.dmm.co.jp/-/detail/=/actress_id=2083/. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
• "村上麗奈" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0451400.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
• "村上麗奈( 出演 )" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. http://www.kinejun.jp/people/id/96694. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
• "村上 麗奈 / むらかみ れいな / Murakami Reina" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?mrkrin00. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 

Notes

1. ^ Infobox data from "村上 麗奈 / むらかみ れいな / Murakami Reina" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?mrkrin00. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
2. ^ "1988年 （昭和63年" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). http://homepage3.nifty.com/kurokami/years/years_1988.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
3. ^ "恋子の毎日". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/14916. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
4. ^ "新・童貞物語　ホンコンバージンボーイ". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/1552. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
5. ^ "コードネーム３４８　女刑事　サシバ" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1990/ov022700.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
6. ^ "村上麗奈" (in Japanese). AllCinema. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=45972&ct=. Retrieved 2010-08-02. 
7. ^ Rena Murakami Biography
8. ^ "Sex and Zen Out On Region 2 (UK) DVD 16th April 2007". Late Mag. http://latemag.com/tag/erotica/. Retrieved 2010-03-12. 
9. ^ Murakami Rena (Japanese)
10. ^ Murakami Rena (Japanese)
11. ^ "村上麗奈　究極名器妻" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1997/du002200.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
12. ^ "村上麗奈　究極名器妻". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/16331. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
13. ^ "1997年度ピンク映画公開作品リスト" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/list/1997.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. ^{[dead link]}
14. ^ da Silva, Joaquín (2006-10-24). "Obscenity and Article 175 of the Japanese Penal Code: A Short Introduction to Japanese Censorship". Archived from the original on 2009-07-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20090723054543/http://es.geocities.com/eiga9/articulos/obscenity.html. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
15. ^ "2003" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/data/2003/newmovie2003.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
16. ^ "小森生活向上クラブ(邦画 )" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/39479. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
17. ^ Filmography from "村上麗奈（むらかみれな）" (in Japanese). www.arzon.jp. http://www.arzon.jp/cast_24165.html. Retrieved 2010-04-13.  and "村上麗奈" (in Japanese). www.alicejapan.co.jp. http://www.alicejapan.co.jp/actress.php?actress_id=f6e7fb7f95d2493fe02c8b33038056ae. Retrieved 2010-04-13. 
18. ^ HKMDB entry
19. ^ "Ex-AV Idol Comes Back". AV Idol Directory. http://xxx.xcity.jp/release/detail/?id=17609. Retrieved 2010-08-02. 
20. ^ Filmography from "Murakami Rena". Hong Kong Movie Database. http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=8675&display_set=eng. Retrieved 2010-04-13. 
21. ^ "村上麗奈 むらかみ・れな" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=45972. Retrieved 2009-08-08. ; "村上麗奈" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0451400.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-08. ; "村上麗奈( 出演 )" (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. http://www.kinejun.jp/people/id/96694. Retrieved 2009-08-08.  and "Japanese Cinema Database". Agency for Cultural Affairs. http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/index.php. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
22. ^ "GORO1988" (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. http://tisen.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?GORO1988. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
23. ^ "平凡パンチ1988" (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. http://tisen.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?%CA%BF%CB%DE%A5%D1%A5%F3%A5%C11988. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
24. ^ "週プレ1988" (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. http://tisen.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?%BD%B5%A5%D7%A5%EC1988. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
25. ^ "週プレ1989" (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. http://tisen.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?%BD%B5%A5%D7%A5%EC1989. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 
26. ^ "週プレ1992" (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. http://tisen.jp/pukiwiki/index.php?%BD%B5%A5%D7%A5%EC1992. Retrieved 2009-08-08. 

External links

• unofficial fan page to Rena Murakami (in Japanese only)
• Rena Murakami at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Murakami, Rena
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Date of birth	November 25, 1967
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
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