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.

Rena Murakami
村上 麗奈
Born	(1967-11-25) 25 November 1967 (age 57)[1] Tokyo, Japan
Other names	Tomoko Ino
Occupations	Actress AV idol gravure idol radio personality
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)

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).^[2] 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).^[3]

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.^[4] 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).^[5] She also had roles in a number of V-Cinema films.^[6]

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.^[7] 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".^[8] 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.^[9][10] 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.^[11][12] The film was distributed theatrically by XCes, scripted by pink film actress Kiyomi Itō, and directed by Satoru Kobayashi,^[13] director of the first pink film, Flesh Market (1962).^[14] The film was re-issued in June 2003 as 村上麗奈 極上けいれん妻.^[15]

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[16]	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[17] 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[18] 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[19]	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[20]	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^[21]
  • November 24, 1988 (#23, nude, with Reiko Hayama)
  • December 8, 1988 (#24, nude)
• Heibon Punch^[22]
  • May 5, 1988 (4 p., nude)
• Weekly Playboy
  • 1988^[23]
    • April 5, 1988 (5 p., nude)
    • July 19, 1988 (3 p., swimming suit)
    • September 20, 1988 (4p., nude)
  • 1989^[24]
    • March 21, 1989 (6 p., nude)
    • August 15, 1989 (7 p., nude)
  • 1992^[25]
    • November 24, 1992 (nude)

Bibliography

English

• Rena Murakami at IMDb
• "RENA MURAKAMI". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-08-08.

Japanese

• 村上麗奈 むらかみ・れな (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
• "村上麗奈 (Profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). dmm.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
• 村上麗奈 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
• 村上麗奈( 出演 ) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
• "村上麗奈/むらかみれいな/Murakami Rina" (in Japanese). i-dic.dorachan.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2009-08-08.

Notes

1. Infobox data from "Rena Murakami profile" (in Japanese). i-dic.dorachan.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
2. 1988年 （昭和63年 (in Japanese). AV Research Laboratory. Archived from the original on 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
3. 恋子の毎日 (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
4. "新・童貞物語 ホンコンバージンボーイ". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2009-08-08.
5. コードネーム348 女刑事 サシバ (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
6. 村上麗奈 (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
7. Rena Murakami Biography, imdb.com; accessed December 28, 2017.
8. "Sex and Zen Out On Region 2 (UK) DVD April 16, 2007". latemag.com. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
9. Murakami Rena, onisukebb.h.fc2.com; accessed December 28, 2017.(in Japanese)
10. Murakami Rena profile, videoboy.tv; accessed December 28, 2017.(in Japanese)
11. 村上麗奈 究極名器妻 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
12. 村上麗奈 究極名器妻 (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2009-08-08.
13. 1997年度ピンク映画公開作品リスト (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
14. DaSilva, Joaquín (2006-10-24). "Obscenity and Article 175 of the Japanese Penal Code: A Short Introduction to Japanese Censorship". Archived from the original on 2009-07-23. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
15. "2003" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Archived from the original on 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
16. Filmography from 村上麗奈（むらかみれな） (in Japanese). arzon.jp. Retrieved 2010-04-13. and 村上麗奈 (in Japanese). alicejapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
17. Profile, HKMDB.com; accessed December 28, 2017.
18. "Ex-AV Idol Comes Back" (in Japanese). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
19. Filmography from "Murakami Rena". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
20. 村上麗奈 むらかみ・れな (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-08-08.; 村上麗奈 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-08.; 村上麗奈 (出演) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 2009-08-08. and "Japanese Cinema Database". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
21. "GORO1988" (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
22. 平凡パンチ1988 (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
23. 週プレ1988 (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
24. 週プレ1989 (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
25. 週プレ1992 (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki. Retrieved 2009-08-08.

External links

• unofficial fan page to Rena Murakami (in Japanese only)
• Rena Murakami at IMDb