Motoko Sasaki

Motoko Sasaki
Born	February 15, 1967 (1967-02-15) (age 44)[1] Japan
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)[1]
Ethnicity	Japanese

Motoko Sasaki (佐々木基子, Sasaki Motoko^?) is a Japanese pink film actress and striptease performer. She entered the pink film profession at the advanced age of 29, became a star in the field at 31, and won a Best Actress award for her work in this genre in 2003 at the age of 36.^[2][3]

Life and career

Early life

Motoko Sasaki was born on February 15, 1967.^[1] She became interested in the stage in middle school, and first began acting in her high school drama club. She had an invitation to pursue the study of acting after graduation from high school, but her father believed that a girl should not attend college. Sasaki wound up working as a civil servant in the same government district as her father.^[2] She continued acting in community theater at this time, gaining acting experience in the Shingeki style.^[2] She reports that the turning point in her life came when a traveling drama troupe visited her community. The director told her that if she were serious about acting, she would have to learn the basics at training school. 22 years of age at the time, she decided to reject the typical life of marriage and raising children, and, with 1.5 million yen saved from her salary, moved to Tokyo to pursue an acting career.^[2]

Stripping career

In Tokyo Sasaki was recruited to perform as a stripper.^[4] To cover the cost of living, Sasaki accepted the job.^[2] Since she had never seen a strip show, she attended a performance in Ueno. By the end of the performance she had determined to look at the experience as a form of "training school" in dialogue-free body acting.^[2] Performing four times a day for a relatively modest 20 million yen a month, Sasaki feels she could have made more money at a hostess bar. But Sasaki stuck with this profession, as it did not require she have physical contact with the audience, and it allowed her to experiment and expand on her craft with each performance. She invested her earnings into her wardrobe and put effort into her interpretations of the songs to which she danced. For three years she studied acting during the day and stripped in the evenings. Recalling the devotion of her fans, including grandfathers who would give her gifts after the show, she remembers this career with fondness.^[2]

Film career

Sasaki made her pink film debut in 1996 at the unusually advanced age of 29.^[4] She later joked that since young actresses are not abundant in pink films, she felt confident in her new line of work.^[2] Sasaki's first film was Kōshoku joruizukan: oishii hitozuma (好色女類図鑑　美味しい人妻たち^?), directed by respected pink film veteran actor-director Yutaka Ikejima.^[4] Her second film for Ikejima, Beautiful Secretary: Rip Off the Panty Hose (1997), won Sasaki the Best New Actress, Third Place award at the Pink Grand Prix. The film was named fourth best pink release of the year.^[5]

Sasaki's acting training and experience has given her versatility in her pink film career, in which she is competent in both serious and comic roles.^[4] Her sensual and charming performance style recalls that of the classic Nikkatsu Roman Porno Queens.^[4]

Director Sachio Kitazawa's The Horny Widow (1998) was a light erotic film starring Sasaki as the widow of a jeweler, having an affair and suffering at the hands of a rapist and blackmailer.^[6] The film became a hit in its video release, bringing Sasaki, then 31, late-comer stardom in the pink profession.^[2]

The main feature of the December 2000 issue of P*G magazine was an interview with Sasaki on the fourth anniversary of her pink film debut.^[7] Since 1994 P*G has been the leading journal on the pink film, and is the host of the Pink Grand Prix, the major awards ceremony for the genre.^[8][9] Sasaki won the Best Actress award at the Pink Grand Prix for her performance in Yutaka Ikejima's Adulterous Wife's Dirty Afternoon (2003), which was given the Silver Prize for Best Film at the ceremony.^[3]

Partial filmography

Main article: Motoko Sasaki filmography

Films

Title[10]	Release date	Director	Studio	Notes
1990s
好色女類図鑑　美味しい人妻たち Kōshoku joruizukan: oishii hitozuma	1996-12-27	Yutaka Ikejima	Cement Match Shintōhō	59 min. Sasaki's debut With Satomi Shinozaki
Beautiful Secretary: Rip Off the Panty Hose 美人秘書　パンストを剥ぐ Bijinhisho: pansuto wo hagu	1997-02-17	Yutaka Ikejima	Cement Match OP Eiga	60 min. Sasaki: Best New Actress, 3rd Place 4th Best Film, Pink Grand Prix[5]
The Horny Widow[6] 好きもの喪服妻　濡れた初七日 Sukimono mofukuzuma: nureta shonanoka	1998-06-26	Sachio Kitazawa	Iizumi Productions Shintōhō	60 min. A hit in video release
A Widow at the Inn - Hot Spring Innkeeper[11] 未亡人旅館　したがる若女将 Mibōjin yokan: shitagaru waka okami	1999-08-13	Akira Fukamachi	Shintōhō	57 min. With Satomi Shinozaki
2000s
Housekeeper Wife/Breathless Affair[12] 人妻家政婦　情事のあえぎ Hitozuma kaseifu: jōji no aegi	2000-09-29	Takuaki Higuchi	Shintōhō	61 min.
Pink Salon Hospital 4: Naked Nurses[13] ピンサロ病院4　ノーパン看護 Pinsaro byōin fō: nōpan kango	2001-08-07	Chise Matoba (Sachi Hamano)	Tantansha Shintōhō	59 min. With Nene Mochizuki and Kyōko Kazama
Over-Thirty Alumnus Association 三十路同窓会　ハメをはずせ！ Misojidō sōkai: hame o hazuse	2001-11-17	Kazue Nakamura	Cine Ark Exces	60 min. 10th Best Film, Pink Grand Prix[14]
牝監房　汚された人妻 Mesukanbō: kegasareta hitozuma	2002-01-26	Yoshikazu Katō	Katō Film Studio OP Eiga	60 min. Yoshikazu Katō's directorial debut With Kyōko Kazama and Yumika Hayashi
Shameless Family ハレンチ・ファミリー　寝ワザで一発 Harenchi*famirii	2002-03-01	Mitsuru Meike	Kokuei Shintōhō	65 min. Best Director, Best Actor 2nd Place, & Fifth Best Film, Pink Grand Prix[15]
Married Women's Boutique[16] 人妻ブティック　不倫生下着 Hitozuma butikku: furinna mashitagi	2002-06-28	Hajime Satō	Shintōhō	62 min. Director Satō's debut With Satomi Shinozaki
Adulterous Wife's Dirty Afternoon 不倫妻の淫らな午後 Furin-zuma no midara na gogo	2003-09-29	Yutaka Ikejima	Cement Match OP Eiga	Sasaki: Best Actress 2nd Best Film, Pink Grand Prix[3] With Yutaka Ikejima
Huge Tits G-Cup: Rapturous Valley 爆乳Ｇカップ　とろける谷間 Bakunyū G kappu: torokeru tanima	2005-06-02	Tarō Araki	Tarō Productions OP Eiga	60 min. Silver prize, Pinky Ribbon Awards[17]
Company President's Secretary: Hunting Big Tit Sexual Harassment 社長秘書　巨乳セクハラ狩り Shachō Hisho: Kyonyū Sekuharakari	2007-06-22	Kuninori Yamazaki	Tantansha OP Eiga	60 min. Sixth Best Film Best Actor: Yutaka Ikejima, Pink Grand Prix With Yumi Yoshiyuki and Tarō Araki

Bibliography

English

• Motoko Sasaki at the Internet Movie Database

Japanese

• "佐々木基子 ささき・もとこ" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=272598. Retrieved 2009-08-19. 
• "佐々木基子（ささきもとこ） (Profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). www.dmm.co.jp. http://actress.dmm.co.jp/-/detail/=/actress_id=12697/. Retrieved 2009-08-19. 
• "佐々木基子" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0448210.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-19. 
• "佐々木基子 (Profile)" (in Japanese). www.videoboy.tv. http://www.videoboy.tv/actress/a1000007990001.html. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
• "素顔のピンク女優／寄り道の確信犯 ― 佐々木基子さん [Bare-Faced Pink Actress]". 記録 (Recording Monthly). September 2000. http://nikkankiroku.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2007/11/post_f0c0.html. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} "佐々木基子のパーソナルデータ" (in Japanese). AV Actress Database. http://actress.douhou.com/actress/3059.html. Retrieved 2009-08-19. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} "素顔のピンク女優／寄り道の確信犯 ― 佐々木基子さん [Bare-Faced Pink Actress]". 記録 (Recording Monthly). September 2000. http://nikkankiroku.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2007/11/post_f0c0.html. Retrieved 2009-08-20. "ピンク映画への初出演は、なんと29歳である。 - "When she first appearned in a pink film she was already at the age of 29." / 特に彼女が主演した『好きもの喪服妻・濡れた初七日』は、ビデオリリースで記録的なヒットとなる。 - "Particularly, ['The Horny Widow'], in which she starred, became a record-breaking hit in its video release."" 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Best Ten of 2003 (２００３年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2003.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009. "女優賞　　佐々木基子 - "Actress award: Sasaki Motoko"" 
4. ^ ^{a b c d e} "佐々木基子 (Profile)" (in Japanese). www.videoboy.tv. http://www.videoboy.tv/actress/a1000007990001.html. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
5. ^ ^{a b} "Best Ten of 1997 (１９９７年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1997.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "好きもの喪服妻 濡れた初七日" (in Japanese). DMM. http://www.dmm.co.jp/digital/nikkatsu/-/detail/=/cid=186_9812/. Retrieved 2010-11-26. 
7. ^ "NO.78" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Archived from the original on 2007-02-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070228065600/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/bnlist/pg78.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-19. 
8. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008-12-04). "Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global". The Japan Times. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20081204r1.html. Retrieved January 23, 2009. "...the high point of the pink fan's calendar has to be the annual Pink Taisho Awards..." 
9. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 
10. ^ Filmography based on "佐々木基子" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0448210.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-19.  and "Japanese Cinema Database". Agency for Cultural Affairs. http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/. Retrieved 2009-08-19. 
11. ^ "A Widow at the Inn - Hot Spring Innkeeper Exclusive Report". Shintoho at XCity.jp. Archived from the original on 2003-03-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20030326212426/http://xxx.xcity.jp/shin-toho/SERISE/waka-okami/waka-okami01/index.html. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
12. ^ "Housekeeper Wife/Breathless Affair". Shintōhō at XCity.jp. Archived from the original on 2008-03-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20080308215200/http://xxx.xcity.jp/shin-toho/ROADSHOW/0020/index.html. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
13. ^ "Pink Salon Hospital 4: Naked Nurses". Shintōhō at XCity.jp. Archived from the original on 2008-03-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20080314222605/http://xxx.xcity.jp/shin-toho/ROADSHOW/0115/index.html. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
14. ^ "Best Ten of 2001 (２００１年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2001.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009. 
15. ^ "Best Ten of 2002 (２００２年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2002.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009. 
16. ^ "Married Women's Boutique". Shintōhō at XCity.jp. Archived from the original on 2008-03-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20080328040310/http://xxx.xcity.jp/shin-toho/ROADSHOW/0211/index.html. Retrieved 2009-08-22. 
17. ^ "もろもろ告知 (Various notices)" (in Japanese). Pinky Ribbon Award site. http://homepage3.nifty.com/a-sp/kokuchii.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-22. 

External links

• Motoko Sasaki at the Internet Movie Database

Awards and achievements
Pink Grand Prix
Preceded by Koharu Yamasaki for A Saloon Wet with Beautiful Women	Pink Grand Prix for Best Actress Motoko Sasaki 2003 for Adulterous Wife's Dirty Afternoon	Succeeded by Yumika Hayashi for Lunch Box

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