Konatsu (向夏^?) is a Japanese pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Actress" award for her work in this genre in 2005.

[edit] Life and career

Konatsu was born in Japan's Nagano Prefecture in 1982.^[2][3] She made her film debut in director Mototsugu Watanabe's Beppin kyōshi: toiki no aibu (べっぴん教師 吐息の愛撫^?) (2004).^[2] Her first leading role was the same year, in Mitsuru Meike's Bitter Sweet.^[2][4]

January 14, 2006, the premiere date of Shinji Imaoka's Paid Companionship Story: Girls Who Want to Do It (援助交際物語　したがるオンナたち, Enjo-kōsai monogatari: shitagaru onna-tachi^?) aka Frog Song, was also Konatsu's birthday. The director and staff presented Konatsu with a surprise birthday cake on stage at the occasion.^[5][6] The film was named the best pink release for 2005, and Konatsu was given the award for Best Actress for her performance.^[7]

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] English

• Konatsu at Allmovie
• Konatsu at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] Japanese

• "向夏 こなつ" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=760500&ct=. Retrieved 2009-07-10. 
• "進化する女優・向夏と傑作ピンクの甘い誘惑 (Evolving Actress: Konatsu and the Sweet Temptation of Pink Art)" (in Japanese). www.walkerplus.com. 2005-11-30. http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report4141.html. Retrieved 2009-07-10. 
• "新着情報―ピンク映画女優　向夏さんに独占インタビュー (Interview with Konatsu)" (in Japanese). www.otoshin.jp. 2005-11-25. Archived from the original on 2007-01-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20070124105214/http://www.otoshin.jp/topnews/20051125.html. Retrieved 2009-07-12. 

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