Kei Marimura

is a Japanese jazz singer, actress, author, gravure model, and AV idol.

Life and career

Kei Marimura was born on August 29, 1957, in Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. Graduating from the Shōei Joshi Gakuin Junior and Senior High School, she made her debut as a jazz singer in 1982 through the Toho College of Music.

She also worked as an actress, appearing in many movies, TV-dramas and V-Cinema releases. In 2009, at 52, she made her debut as an AV actress with the label Alice Japan.

In 2011 she released her first novel, Intimacy (インティマシー).

Discography

Album

• Elegance (1982, Disco-Mate, DSP-4006)
• Mood Indigo (1982, Disco-Mate, DSP-4007)
• The man I love (1983, Disco-Mate, DSP-5118)
• P.S. I Love you (1983, Teichiku / Continental, DSP-5120)
• Beautiful Dreamer (live, 1984, Disco-Mate, DSP-5121)
• Tiempo de Amor (1985, Continental, CI-40)
• La Califusa (1986, Continental, CI-41)
• Nouveau (1991, Teichiku, TECN-28082)
• Mucho Mucho (1992, Teichiku, TECN-30194)
• ブリリアント・ベスト (Best of, 2010, Teichiku, TECN-30211/2)

Filmography

Movies

• Mysterious Country Japan (ふしぎな国日本, 1982)
• Yasha (夜叉, 1985)
• The most dangerous criminal (もっともあぶない刑事, 1989)
• Death Subeshi beast (野獣死すべし, 1997)
• Moonlight Whispers (月光の囁き, 1998)
• Girl came from the sea – Mermaid (マーメイド～海から来た少女, 2001), also written and directed
• Midday Flowers (真昼の花, 2005), singing

V-Cinema

• Only evil (悪人専用, 1990)
• Symphony of the sensual wife Karuizawa (軽井沢夫人 官能の夜想曲, 1996)
• ' (XX 美しき獲物, 1996)
• Women (id., 1997)
• Another XX (アナザーXX, 1998)
• Ecstasy (エクスタシー, 2001)
• Red Spider (赤蜘蛛, 2004)