Hotaru Hazuki (葉月螢 or 葉月蛍, Hazuki Hotaru?) is a Japanese actress known for her work on the stage and in pink films. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given "Best Actress" awards at the Pink Grand Prix for her work in this genre two years in a row: in 1995 and 1996. Including second-place awards, Hazuki has won five awards in the Best Actress category and one Best New Actress award, a record at the Pink Grand Prix.[3] Due to her high recognition in the pink film, she has been given the nicknames, "Queen of Pink Eiga" and the "Last Pink Actress."[3]
[edit] Life and career
Hotaru Hazuki was born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1970 as Sayoko Ishii (石井佐代子, Ishii Sayoko?).[2] She joined the Suizokukan Gekijō (Aquarium Theater) theatrical group while still in university.[3] Besides performing in the groups' productions, she works as co-organizer.[2] She uses her birth name in her stage career.[2]
Hazuki made her screen debut in director Takahisa Zeze's 1993 film Modern Story About Bandits aka The Legend of the Thief.[2][3] Her role in Toshiya Ueno's Keep on Masturbating: Non-Stop Pleasure (1994) won her the Best New Actress, 2nd Place at the Pink Grand Prix.[4] To pink film audiences she is known less for her beauty than for her strong stage presence and unique vocal performance.[3] Anglophone pink film scholar Jasper Sharp notes her "aloof, composed and slightly melancholic figure."[5] She became closely associated with the work of Toshiki Satō, starring in some of his highest-regarded films,[6] including the Pink Grand Prix Best Film-winners, Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration! (1995) and Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet (1996). Hazuki was given the Best Actress award for her work in both these films.[7][8] Her work in Satō's Apartment Wife: Midday Adultery (1997), Ueno's The Lustful Sister-in-Law 2: Erotic Games (1999) and pink film actor-director Yutaka Ikejima's Obscene Stalker: Hugging in the Dark! (2002) won her the Best Actress Silver Prize in three more of the annual ceremonies.[9][10][11] In recent years Hazuki has appeared in mainstream films such as Man Walking on Snow, screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[3] Her cast listing in this film gives her name as Sayoko Ishii.[12]
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- ^ Infobox data from "石井佐代子" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0368780.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ^ a b c d e Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
- ^ a b c d e f "Hotaru Hazuki". pinkeiga.com. http://pinkeiga.com/HTML/Actresses/hotaru_hazuki.html. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ^ "Best Ten of 1994 (１９９４年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/best10/1994.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ^ Sharp, p. 273.
- ^ Sharp, p. 265.
- ^ "Best Ten of 1995 (１９９５年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/best10/1995.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ^ "Best Ten of 1996 (１９９６年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/best10/1996.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ^ "Best Ten of 1997 (１９９７年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/best10/1997.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ^ "Best Ten of 1999 (１９９９年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/best10/1999.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ^ "Best Ten of 2002 (２００２年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/best10/2002.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009.
- ^ "キャスト・スタッフ - 歩く、人(2001) (Cast listing, "Walking Man")" (in Japanese). movie.goo.ne.jp. http://movie.goo.ne.jp/movies/PMVWKPD34461/cast.html. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
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