Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子), of its true name Masako Ota (太田雅子) is a Japanese actress born the March 24th 1947 with Tōkyō (Japan). It is also a singer.
Biography
With little success but a great experiment of cinema industry, it signs in 1970 with the Nikkatsu, where it will play of the more or less important roles in the series of films Alleycat (or Stray Cat ) Rock . These films put in scene gangs of young girls clashing for various reasons but, no matter what inventive, they suffer from scenarios without value and a low quality. In 1971 Nikkatsu launched out in the financially lucrative industry of the erotic film, which makes its reputation today, while launching its series of " Romance Porn " softwares. To avoid becoming a starlet of the Pinku eiga , Kaji joined the Toei where it meets the realizer Shunya Ito and plays in four films of prison of women, in the series of the Joshuu Sasori (literally Prisonnière Scorpion ), which made it famous in all Japan. These films were adapted of a famous Manga of Toru Shinohara. For the fourth episode, Toei replaced the realizer Shunya Ito by Yasuharu Hasebe, a decision which dissatisfied Kaji and made it leave the series, which continued until in 1998 with six after-effects of quite less quality.
In 1973 it took the role of Yuki in film with the topic of revenge Lady Snowblood , which became a film worship in Occident. It was based on a manga Kazuo Koike, the creator of Crying Freeman and Baby Cart . The film was one of the inspirations of the Kill Bill of Quentin Tarantino. It had a continuation, Lady Snowblood 2: Coil Song off Revenge .
Kaji appeared then in several films of Kinji Fukasaku, in particular Tombe of yakuza and flower of gardénia (1976).
Its career of singer is mainly related to her cinematographic career, because she often sang on the original soundtracks of the films in which she played. Thanks to that, she knew an renewed interest with the exit of the Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2 and of their original soundtrack. Topics of Lady Snowblood , " Flower off Carnage" (Shura No Hana), and the topic of the Sasori series, " Urami Bushi" (literally " Song of Ressentiment"), all two sung by Kaji, were used in films of Tarantino.
Catalog of films
- 1967 : Hana O kuu mushi , of Shōgorō Nishimura
- 1967: The Endless Duel ( Ketto ), of Toshio Masuda
- 1968: Ah himeyuri No to , of Toshio Masuda
- 1968: Shima wa moratta , of Yasuharu Hasebe
- 1969: 100 Gamblers ( Bakuto hyakunin ), of Takashi Nomura
- 1970: Step one the Gas ( Shinjuku outlaw: Buttobase ), of Toshiya Fujita
- 1970: Stray Cat Rock'n'roll: Sex Hunter ( Nora-neko rokku: Sekkusu haunted ), of Yasuharu Hasebe
- 1970: The Blind Woman' S Curse ( Kaidan nobori ryu ), of Teruo Ishii
- 1971: Happy '71 ( Nora-neko rokku: Bôsô shudan '71 ), of Toshiya Fujita
- 1972: the Woman scorpion ( Joshuu 701-gô: Sasori ), of Shunya Ito
- 1972: It was called Scorpion ( Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô ), of Shunya Ito
- 1973: Lady Snowblood ( Shurayukihime ), of Toshiya Fujita
- 1973: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deathmatch in Hiroshima ( Jingi naki tatakai: Hiroshima shito hen ), of Kinji Fukasaku
- 1973: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Stable Beast ( Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya ), of Shunya Ito
- 1973: Gendai ninkyô-shi , of Teruo Ishii
- 1973: Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701' S Grudge Song ( Joshuu sasori: 701-gô urami-bushi ), of Yasuharu Hasebe
- 1974: Lady Snowblood 2: Coil Song off Revenge ( Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga ), of Toshiya Fujita
- 1975: Shin jingi naki tatakai: Kumicho No kubi , of Kinji Fukasaku
- 1975: the Archipelago of the arteries ( Dômyaku rettô ), of Yasuzo Masumura
- 1976: Tomb of yakuza and flower of gardénia ( Yakuza No hakaba: Kuchinashi No hana ), of Kinji Fukasaku
- 1976: Between the wife and the woman ( Tsuma to onna No helped ), of Kon Ichikawa and Shirô Toyoda
- 1976: Lullaby off the Earth ( Daichi No komoriuta ), of Yasuzo Masumura
- 1978: Double Suicide off Sonezaki ( Sonezaki shinju ), of Yasuzo Masumura
- 1980: Bad Fates ( Warui will yatsura ), of Yoshitaro Nomura
- 1981: Kodomo No koro senso ga atta , of Sadao Saito
- 1986: Deciduous trees ( Raku-yo-ju ), of Kaneto Shindô
- 1995: Onihei Hankacho , of Yoshiki Onoda
- 2003: Kaseifu ha mita! 21 , of Hiroshi Okamoto (telefilm)
Rewards
- Price of the best actress at the time of the Hochi Film Awards 1978, for Double Suicide off Sonezaki .
- Nomination at the price of the best actress at the time of the Awards off the Japanese Academy 1979, for Double Suicide off Sonezaki .
- Price of the best actress at the time of the Blue Ribbon Awards 1979, for Double Suicide off Sonezaki .
- Price of the best actress at the time of the Kinema Junpo Awards 1979, for Double Suicide off Sonezaki .
- Price of the best actress at the time of the Mainichi Film Contest 1979, for Double Suicide off Sonezaki .
- Nomination at the price of the female best supporting role at the time of the Awards off the Japanese Academy 1981, for Bad Fates .
- Price of the female best supporting role at the time of the Hochi Film Awards 1995, for Onihei Hankacho .
External bonds
- a Card on JMDB
- a biography on Cult Sirens
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