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Rena Murakami (Japanese: 村上 麗奈, Hepburn: Murakami Rena, Cantonese Yale: Chyun1 Seung5 Lai6 Noi6) is a Japanese actress and former AV idol.

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). 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).

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. 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). She also had roles in a number of V-Cinema films.

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. 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". 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. 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. The film was distributed theatrically by XCes, scripted by pink film actress Kiyomi Itō, and directed by Satoru Kobayashi, director of the first pink film, Flesh Market (1962). The film was re-issued in June 2003 as 村上麗奈 極上けいれん妻.

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)

Hong Kong films

Japanese V-cinema and films

Magazine appearances

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

• Erotica and pornography
• Japan

• 1967 births
• Living people
• Japanese female erotic dancers
• Japanese female adult models
• Japanese gravure models
• Japanese film actresses
• Japanese pornographic film actresses
• Pink film actors
• Hong Kong film actresses
• Actresses from Tokyo