Kin'ichi Kusumi Explained

Kin'ichi Kusumi
Birth Date:23 September 1950
Birth Place:Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

(born September 23, 1950) is a Japanese actor who has also used the stage name .[1] He has appeared in tokusatsu kaiju productions (monster movies) and in pink films.

Life and career

Kusumi started appearing on Japanese TV as early as 1971 (under the name Mamoru Kusumi) when he played the role of Mirror Man in the Fuji TV superhero series of the same name which ran from December 1971 to November 1972.[2] In 1973 he was the giant Zone Fighter in the Nippon Television series, again using the name Mamoru Kusumi.[3] Again under the same name, he played the monsters Anguirus and King Caesar in the 1974 Toho film Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.[4]

Still as Mamoru Kusumi, by November 1977 he also started acting in the Japanese softcore pornographic genre of pink film with a starring role in the Pro Taka studio movie for director Seiji Izumi.[5] Two years later, he starred in the pink film studio Shintōhō Eiga's 1979 film directed by Kōji Seki.[6] He appeared in several more movies as Mamoru Kusumi[7] but in 1982 started acting as Kin'ichi Kasumi and according to the Japanese Movie Database, had made over 170 films by 2004.[8]

The year 1985 saw Kusumi in two films for Shintōhō Eiga,, directed Kōji Seki,[9] [10] and directed by Akifumi Kageyama and with a screenplay by Kazuyoshi Sekine.[11] [12]

Kusumi continued making films for Shintōhō Eiga in the 1990s with directed by Toshiya Ueno, one of the "Seven Lucky Gods of Pink".[13] He also worked for the budget pink film studio Tokatsu in their May 1990 release . In this movie, directed and written by Kōsuke Fujiwara, Kusumi plays a hapless newspaper salesman who receives some supernatural help in furthering his career through sexual techniques.[14] Kusumi was the subject of an interview in the August 1994 issue of PG,[15] a "[s]pecialist Japanese magazine on pink films."[16]

In May 2002, Kusumi appeared with veteran AV Idol Hitomi Kobayashi in a pink film distributed by Xces Film, .[17] Kusumi was still active in films in 2009 when he performed in with pink film actress Motoko Sasaki. The film was directed by Tarō Araki and released by OP Eiga in April 2009.[18] [19]

Films

Television

Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=243785. ja:久須美欽一 くすみきんいち. [AllCinema]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  2. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=85891. ja:ミラーマン(1971～1972). [AllCinema]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  3. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=85919. ja:流星人間ゾーン(1973). [AllCinema]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  4. Web site: ゴジラ対メカゴジラ(1974)GODZILLA VS THE BIONIC MONSTER. [AllCinema]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  5. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1977/da003410.htm. ja:異常性欲魔. [JMDB]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  6. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=87841. ja:痴漢透明人間ＰＡＲＴ３ ワイセツ？(1979). [AllCinema]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  7. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0091030.htm. ja:久須美護. [JMDB]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  8. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0079030.htm. ja:久須美欽一. [JMDB]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  9. Web site: Celebrating Together (1985) . [IMDb]. 2011-03-14.
  10. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1985/di002200.htm. ja:痴漢奥まで覗く. [JMDB]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  11. Web site: Ruff Trade (1985) . IMDb]. 2011-03-14.
  12. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1985/di003060.htm. ja:変態牝犬調教. [JMDB]. 2011-03-14. Japanese.
  13. Book: Sharp, Jasper. Behind the pink curtain: the complete history of Japanese sex cinema. 5 March 2011. November 2008. FAB Press. 978-1-903254-54-7. 364.
  14. Book: Weisser, Thomas. Yuko Mihara Weisser . Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. 1998. Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. Miami. 1-889288-52-7. 504.
  15. Web site: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/pg/pgnew.htm. ja:バックナンバーリスト. [PG Magazine]. 2011-04-15. Japanese.
  16. Book: Sharp, Jasper. Behind the pink curtain: the complete history of Japanese sex cinema. 5 March 2011. November 2008. FAB Press. 978-1-903254-54-7. 379.
  17. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=240271. ja:抱きたい女、抱かれたい女(2002). [AllCinema]. 2011-03-15. Japanese.
  18. Web site: Yatai no onêsan: Tabegoro na monojiri (2009). [IMDb]. 2011-03-15.
  19. Web site: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/data/2009/090304/090403yatai.htm. ja:屋台のお姉さん 食べごろな桃尻. PG Magazine]. 2011-04-15. Japanese.

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