Junko Miyashita


Junko Miyashita is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema.

Career

Junko Miyashita was born in Tokyo on January 29, 1949. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films.
Her debut film was in July 1971 with That's How I Lost. Her work in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno genre included eight entries in the Apartment Wife series from 1972 until 1974. She worked with leading pink film director Kōji Wakamatsu, and some of the best directors in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno films, including Noboru Tanaka, and Tatsumi Kumashiro. Among the highlights of her early career were starring roles in Tanaka's Showa Trilogy, Watcher in the Attic, and Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! ). An exceptionally good actress for the genre, she was nominated for a Japanese Academy Award for best new actress in her roles in Kihachi Okamoto's film Dynamite Bang Bang and Hideo Gosha's Bandit vs. Samurai Squad. She was awarded the Blue Ribbon Award for both of these roles. She was again nominated for a Japanese Academy Award in 1979 for best actress for her role in Woman with Red Hair, and won the Hochi News award for both this role and for Wet Weekend. The following year, she was given a special award for her career at the Yokohama Film Festival.
From the 1980s, she began working more in mainstream films, including two award-winning films for Mitsuo Yanagimachi: Fire Festival and About Love, Tokyo . Commenting on his work with Miyashita, director Noboru Tanaka later said, "I liked her natural manner. She always looks very natural, but you can feel the great power and strength that she has. She had a very traditional and conservative Japanese style, but her determination could be seen on the screen... she was a traditional Japanese beauty who also had energy and strength, and that was what I liked about her."

Filmography

1970s

Sex Family Apartment Wife: Unforgettable Night Afternoon Affair: Rear Window Office Lady Journal: Poaching Afternoon Affair: Kyoto Holy Tapestry Apartment Wife: Scent of a Woman Love Affair on Rainy Night Apartment Wife: Playing with Fire Erotic Journey: Love Affair in Hong Kong Sex Report From a Female Private Detective: Housewife Prostitution Legend of Sex Thief in Edo Married Woman: Smoldering Fire The World of Geisha The Vanity of the Shogun's Mistress Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction Man & Woman Behind Fusuma Screen II / Man & Woman Behind Fusuma Screen: Enduring Skin Sukeban Deka: Dirty Mary Last Day of Red Light District: March 31, 1958 Secret Book series: Turbulent Cloud New Apartment Wife: Afternoon Beast Female Ninja Magic: 100 Trampled Flowers Secret Chronicle: She-Beast Market Street of Joy / Red Light District: Gonna Get Out Secret Book: Sleeve and Sleeve Secret Book: Peeled Egg A Woman Called Sada Abe / Sada Abe: Docu-Drama Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment Housewife's Experience: The Sequel Office Lady Journal: Indecent Relations Lady Kamakura: Cherry Boy Club Great Edo: Secret Story of a Female Doctor in Trouble Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Documentary on High School Girls Prostitution Ring Competition: Married Couples Technique Cage of Lust: Wives' Afternoon Watcher in the Attic Getting Raped Student Mistress: Taste of a Virgin Tissue Paper by the Geisha's Pillow The Alaska Story Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! Dannoura Pillow War Wet and Crying Showtime! Apartment Wife: Rainy Day Affair Gate of Flesh Teacher's Mark Card Tenement Apartment: Obscene Affair Junko's Bliss Bandit vs. Samurai Squad / Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron Panic in High School Dynamite Bang Bang Woman's Bedroom: Lusty Competition The Woman with Red Hair Rope and Skin Wet Weekend Faraway Tomorrow Hell Worms
  • ''The Golden Dog''

1980s

Bad Sorts Koichiro Uno's Shell Competition Pleasure Campus: Secret Games Island of the Evil Spirits
  • Ekisutora The Living Koheiji
  • Namidabashi Mermaid Legend Fire Festival Tracked Early Spring Story Magino Village: A Tale Shinran: Path to Purity Lady Camellia or Princess Tsubuki A Festival of Dreams''

1990s

Skinless Night Scorpion Woman Prisoner: Death Threat About Love, Tokyo Alone in the Night Female Teacher's Diary: Forbidden Sex
  • Zakuro Yakata

2000s

Kamome Closed Ward Sea Cat A Boy's Summer in 1945 Portrait of the Wind Dekotora no Shu: Koino Hanasaku Shimizuko One Night in Ruder
  • ''Dekotora no shu: Hinokuni kumamoto''

2010s

Maestro!

2020s

The Voice of Sin
  • ''The Stars and Moon are Holes in the Sky''