Kei Marimura (Japanese: 真梨邑ケイ, Hepburn: Marimura Kei) is a Japanese Jazz singer, actress, author, gravure model and AV actress.

Life and career

Kei Marimura was born on August 29, 1957, in Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. Graduated from the Shōei Joshi Gakuin Junior and Senior High School, she made her debut as jazz singer in 1982 through the Toho College of Music.^[1]

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 AV actress with the label Alice Japan.^[3]

In 2011 she released her first novel, Intimacy (インティマシー).^[4]

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: Beautiful Prey (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)

Gravure video

• Shangai Rapsodhy (Bauhaus, 2002)
• Aventure (2004)

Adult video

• Jyoji (September 25, 2009, Alice JAPAN)
• Jyoji II (March 12, 2010, Alice JAPAN)
• Lady Stockings (November 12, 2010, Alice JAPAN)
• Tokyo nightclub – Jyoji Beginning (November 11, 2011, Alice JAPAN)

Web series

• Easy seeing (I have seen!) (見参楽（みさんが！）, 2011, DOUGA/Fuji TV)

Television

• At night the mood (夜は気分で, 1982–1983) – Host
• We're funny family (オレたちひょうきん族, 1982–1983)
• Our first experience of wives (妻たちの初体験, 1986)
• Metropolitan at 25 (大都会25時, 1987)
• Tetsuko Room (徹子の部屋, 1987)
• One photograph (一枚の写真, 1991)
• Autumn murderer (秋の殺人者, 1995)
• Good Luck (グッドラック, 1996)
• Witch legend (鬼女伝説, 2003)
• Stay at the countryside! (田舎に泊まろう!, 2008)
• BS-TBS Imperial Jazz 2009 (2009)

Radio

• Jazz Monthly wide (マンスリージャズワイド, TBS Radio)
• I Love NY