# Kyōko Aizome

Kyōko Aizome (pronunciation) (Japanese: 愛染 恭子, Hepburn: Aizome Kyōko, born February 9, 1958) is a Japanese erotic actress, singer, writer, and AV and film director. She has been called "the first hard-core porn actress in Japan".

## Life and career
### Early life

Kyōko Aizome was born in Noda, Chiba Prefecture. She grew up in a troubled household, her father was a police officer who beat his wife, and her parents divorced about 1974, when Aizome was 16 years old. Soon after graduation from high school, Aizome was scouted in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood by a photographer for nude magazines. She saw nude modeling as a stepping-stone into a career in entertainment.

### Daydream

Pioneer pink film director Tetsuji Takechi noticed Aizome in one of her nude photo magazine appearances. Pinku eiga, or "pink films", are the softcore genre of sex-film which dominated Japan's domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. Tetsuji had made Daydream (1964), the first big-budget pink film. He chose Aizome to star in his hardcore remake of this film, also called Daydream (1981), giving the actress her leading-role debut. Japan's first theatrically released film featuring hardcore sex, Aizome added to the controversy surrounding the film by admitting to having performed actual sexual intercourse on camera. Though, as Japanese law required, sexual organs and pubic hair were fogged on screen, the Asahi Shimbun calls it Japan's first hardcore pornographic movie. By 1981, hardcore AVs (adult videos) were already starting to win over the adult entertainment audience in Japan, but the film became a hit with theatrical audiences. Uncensored copies of the film were also circulated illegally.

### After Daydream

After Daydream, Aizome became active in Japan's prolific adult video and pink film industries. She made her debut in the still-young AV industry in November 1981 with April of Lust for director Tadashi Yoyogi, making her one of Japan's earliest AV idols. Her name became a marketing tool and was used in the titles of such later theatrical releases as Yoyogi's Kyōko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence (Aizome Kyōko Kareinaru Tsuioku) (1983) and Shin'ya Yamamoto's Kyōko Aizome's Widow's Boarding House (Aizome Kyōko no Mibōjin Geshuku) (1984).
Aizome's fame also led her to embark on a successful live-performance career in striptease, which lasted until her retirement in July 1994. While engaged in stripping, she was arrested twice in 1983 for indecent exposure. She used her jail time to review her career and rededicate herself to a life in adult entertainment. She also resolved to build a two-story, six-bedroom house in Chiba Prefecture, which she gave to her mother.
About 1986, in one of her more remarkable performances, Aizome had her hymen surgically restored so that it could be broken during the film. Previously a common procedure, hymen restorations went out of favor in Japan about the time of Aizome's use of it. The doctor who performed the restoration reports that the last time he did this surgery was on a couple in their 50s who, after seeing Aizome's film, wished to undergo the operation for their second honeymoon. In an article on the procedure, Aizome told Shukan Bunshun, "They strung a thread almost like a piano wire through the entrance to my vagina and pulled it like a drawstring to recreate the hymen. They give your privates a local anesthetic, so the operation itself doesn't really hurt. I really felt like a virgin again."
Aizome gained an international audience in the 1986 Traci Lords film, Traci Takes Tokyo. With her name mis-credited as "Kyōko Izoma", the porn-video was shot in Tokyo before Lords' scandal, and is therefore now illegal in the U.S.
Takechi Tetsuji filmed Daydream for the third time in 1987, as Daydream 2 (Hakujitsumu Zoku), and again hired Aizome for the lead role. According to the Weissers, each filming of Daydream had become progressively more exploitive, with the last, imported to the United States under the title Captured For Sex having the lowest production values and focusing most on sex and a torture orgy.

### Later career

She retired from regular performances in pornography in 1994, but continued to act in erotic films occasionally in later years. She would also work behind the camera in the industry in various capacities including writing and directing. In 2001 Aizome was writing a sex- and health-advice column for women in Japan, titled "Auntie Agony".
She teamed up with "AV Queen" Hitomi Kobayashi in the February 2001 theatrical release, Kyōko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition (愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ). Aizome both starred in and directed the film, which was released by Nikkatsu's post-Roman porn distributor of theatrical pornography, Excess films. An adult video starring the two actresses and also directed by Aizome followed in March. Entitled Lesbian Wives, the video had Aizome and Kobayashi playing the wives of two yakuza bosses who become engaged in a lesbian relationship. Two years later, she directed the AV Lesbian Politicians (2003), in which she also co-starred with the popular award-winning AV actress Ai Kurosawa. In late 2003, she directed and co-starred with another "mature" AV actress, Eri Kikuchi, in the softcore film Double G-Spot: Kyôko Aizome vs. Eri Kikuchi.
In October 2005, she starred in the Madonna hardcore AV Widow's Obscene Desire (愛欲の未亡人), which won her a Madonna Best Actress Award at the 2005 Moodyz Awards. She also appeared in a further video for Madonna, Mother and Son Incest (近親相姦 母と息子) with Yume Imano in May 2006 when Aizome was 48 years old.
Aizome's name was in the news again in 2007 when she was arrested for beating her niece. Aizome admitted to the allegations and was fined 500,000 yen. She explained, "I hit my niece to punish her for dating my boyfriend. But it went too far."
Co-directing with Shinji Imaoka, Aizome filmed a fourth version of Tanizaki and Takechi's Daydream, which was released on September 5, 2009. In March 2010, she played the female lead as Kikue, a masochistic elderly woman in The Slave Ship, an adaptation of Oniroku Dan novella Dorei-bune (奴隷船). Six months later she starred in her retirement adult video Retirement, the Last Production for Moodyz at age 52.

## Selected filmography

| Film title | Release date | Studio | Director | Notes |
| Theatrical films |||||
| Daydream 白日夢 Hakujitsumu | 1981-09-12 | | Tetsuji Takechi | Debut role With Kei Satō & Takemi Katsushika |
| 華麗なる愛の遍歴　愛染恭子 Karei Naru ai no Henreki Aizome Kyōko | 1982-08-14 | Joy Pack | Tadashi Yoyogi | With Masayoshi Nogami |
| Kyōko Aizome's Somber Reminiscence 愛染恭子 華麗なる追憶 Aizome Kyōko Kareinaru Tsuioku | 1983-03-11 | Joy Pack | Tadashi Yoyogi | With Masayoshi Nogami & Matsu Takada |
| Kyōko Aizome's Widow's Boarding House 愛染恭子の未亡人下宿 Aizome Kyōko no Mibōjin Geshuku | 1984-12-22 | Nikkatsu | Shin'ya Yamamoto (director) | With Kate Asabuki |
| Daydream 2 白日夢２ Hakujitsumu Zoku | 1987-02-07 | | Tetsuji Takechi | With Kei Satō & Kenji Hayami |
| Early Afternoon Love Affair 昼下りの情事 Hirusagari no Jōji | 1993-12-23 | Excess | Yukio Kitazawa | With Manami Ogawa |
| Kyōko Aizome vs. Hitomi Kobayashi: Sexual Excitement Competition 愛染恭子ＶＳ小林ひとみ　発情くらべ Aizome Kyōko VS Kobayashi Hitomi Hatsujō Kurabe | 2001-02-02 | Excess | Kyōko Aizome | With Hitomi Kobayashi |
| Double G-Spot: Kyôko Aizome vs. Eri Kikuchi 愛染恭子ＶＳ菊池えり　ダブルＧスポット Aizome Kyōko vs Kikuchi Eri: Daburu G Supotto | 2003-12-26 | Shintōhō Eiga | Kyōko Aizome | With Eri Kikuchi & Kyōko Kazama Also released as a DVD by Japan Home Video |
| The Slave Ship 奴隷船 Dorei-sen | 2010–03-10 | Shintōhō Eiga | Satoshi Kaneda | With Tarō Suwa |
| Video title | Release date | Studio | Director | Notes |
| Adult videos (AV) |||||
| April of Lust 淫欲のうずき Inyoku no Uzuki | 1981-11 | Japan Video (日本ビデオ映像) | Tadashi Yoyogi | Debut AV |
| Dizziness Kyoko Aizome 愛染恭子のめまい | 1982-01-01 | Athena Eizou | Tadashi Yoyogi | |
| Secret Sexual Technique Part 1: Soaking Wet 性感極秘テクニック　１　「ぐしょぐしょなの…」 | 1983 | Athena Eizou / Mimizuku Video Pack MV-9063 | Tadashi Yoyogi | |
| Secret Sexual Technique Special 性感極秘テクニックスペシャル | 1984 | Athena Eizou AV-T905 | Tadashi Yoyogi | |
| Psycho Hypnotic Ecstasy Part 1 サイコ催眠エクスタシー PART-1 驚異のマインド・オーガズム | 1985 | Athena Eizou AS-603 | Tadashi Yoyogi | |
| Traci Takes Tokyo | 1986 | | Steven Cartier Tadashi Yoyogi | With Traci Lords & Don Fernando |
| Three Mature Sisters Chapter 1 熟女三姉妹　第一章 | 1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-022 | Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka |
| Three Mature Sisters Chapter 2 熟女三姉妹　第二章 | 1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-023 | Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka |
| Three Mature Sisters Chapter 3 熟女三姉妹　第三章 | 1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-024 | Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka |
| Three Mature Sisters Chapter 4 熟女三姉妹　第四章 | 1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-025 | Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka |
| Three Mature Sisters Chapter 5 熟女三姉妹　第五章 | 1999-07-15 | V&R Planning Ume SER-026 | Eitaro Haga | With Junko Misaki, Yuka Takemura & Midori Ōtsuka |
| Lesbian Wives 極妻レズ | 2001-03-16 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9144 | Kyōko Aizome | With Hitomi Kobayashi |
| Mellow Sales Lady 熟女セールスレディ | 2001-04-21 | Shy Plan Bold BL-068 | Satoru Kobayashi | |
| Molester In A Hospital 痴漢病棟 | 2002-10-25 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9172 | Kyōko Aizome | With Yuri Komuro & Mayumi Sawaki |
| G Pleasure Gの快感 | 2002-12-24 | Alice Japan Erotica KS-8562 | Kyōko Aizome | |
| Crimson Sisters 紅姉妹 | 2003-01-24 | CineMagic Collect DD-052 | Oniroku Dan | With Minako Ogawa & Mayumi Sawaki |
| Princess Hunting 姫狩り | 2003-02-25 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9178 | Kenichi Fujiwara | With Kyōko Kazama & Moe Nishimura |
| Kyoko Aizome Special 愛染恭子スペシャル | 2003-04-18 | Alice Japan DV-235 (DVD) | | Compilation DVD |
| 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 Ai Kurosawa, Hitomi Shimizu & Mariko Kawana |
| Kyōko Aizome vs Eri Kikuchi Double G-spot 愛染恭子VS菊池えり ダブルGスポット | 2004-09-30 | Alice Japan Babylon KR-9217 (VHS) DV-396 (DVD) | Kyōko Aizome | With Eri Kikuchi |
| Love Sexuality あいぞめ | 2005-02-25 | Kazoo Planning Sizzle SCS-01 | | Gravure video (non-sex) |
| Widow's Obscene Desire 愛欲の未亡人 | 2005-10-25 | Madonna JUKD-284 | | |
| Mother and Son Incest 近親相姦 母と息子 | 2006-05-25 | Madonna JUKD-400 | | |
| Retirement, the Last Production 引退、最後の本番… 愛染恭子 | 2010-09-13 | Moodyz Gati MIGD-356 | Hara Ichigo | |

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