# Rena Murakami

Rena Murakami (Japanese: 村上 麗奈, Hepburn: 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, which included modeling for Akira Gomi, 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). She also had roles in a number of V-Cinema films.
Her work became popular in Hong Kong, and led to her getting roles in several Category III films of Hong Kong cinema, starting around 1991. Her most significant film there was the 1991 cult favorite, Sex and Zen. In a review of the DVD release of Sex and Zen, a reviewer described her as one of "Asian cinema's most beautiful actresses". Her last film in Hong Kong, 1/3 Lover, was released in 1993.
There was a minor scandal when news leaked that she might have had sex with the Sultan of Brunei during his visit to Japan in 1993. For several years starting in the late 1990s, she toured various strip theaters around Japan, such as the famous Asakusa Rokku-za (ロック座).
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.
Later, Murakami had a small part in the 2008 Japanese comedy, Serial Dad.
Since 2018, Rena Murakami has been a radio personality on a talk radio program in Osaka.

## Partial filmography
### Adult Videos (AV)

| Title | 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 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 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 | 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 | | Released in Japan as KEDAMONO 獣 |
| Dream Lovers 青春夢裡人 | 1994 | | | |

### Japanese V-cinema and films

| Title | Release date | Director | Studio | Notes |
| Koiko no mainichi 恋子の毎日 | 1988-12-17 | Kanji Amao | Toei | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Serial Dad 小森生活向上クラブ Komori seikatsu kōjō kurabu | 2008-11-08 | Ikki Katashima | Phantom Film (ファントム・フィルム) | |

## Magazine appearances

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