Reiko Ike


Reiko Ike is a Japanese actress, singer, and entertainer. She is best known for her roles in the genre of action/erotic movies known as pink films. Ike also released an album of songs in 1971, Kōkotsu No Sekai. After a drug-related arrest, and another arrest for illegal gambling in the 1970s, Ike dropped out of the entertainment business.

Life and career

Ike's career was launched with the fourth entry in Toei's Hot Springs Geisha series, Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha. A media frenzy erupted following the release of this film when Ike claimed to have lied about her age to gain a part in the movie. Claiming to have in fact been sixteen years of age when she starred in this softcore sex film, Ike caused a scandal. The publicity only served to make the film one of Toei's most profitable films of the 1970s.
In her third film, director Norifumi Suzuki's Modern Porno Tale: Inherited Sex Mania, Ike co-starred with French erotic actress, Sandra Julien. Eirin, the Japanese film-rating board, objected to the graphic lesbian scenes between the two actresses, and this film had to be severely cut before it could be released theatrically. Ike starred in five of Toei's seven Sukeban films made between 1971 and 1974. Patrick Macias describes this series as, "bare-chested, shotgun-packing chicks Miki Sugimoto and Ike Reiko getting into one catfight after another." She also starred in all four of Toei's Terror Female High School films made in 1972 and 1973. Ike's later films would include appearances in Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity series and Graveyard of Honor, and the second sequel to Sonny Chiba's The Street Fighter.
Yuko Mihara Weisser calls Ike one of the "icons of Pinky Violence," and in a review of Sex and Fury, DVDManiacs.net called Ike, "the very epitome the cinematic bad girl, playing her role with a sense of collected cool and tough attitude that can rival that of even better known North American tough gals such as Tura Satana from Faster Pussycat… Kill! Kill! or Pam Grier in Foxy Brown."

Selected filmography

  • Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
  • Girl Boss Blues – Queen Bee’s Counterattack
  • Modern Porno Tale: Inherited Sex Mania
  • Girl Boss Blues – Queen Bee’s Challenge
  • Girl Boss Guerilla
  • Terrifying Girls High School: Women’s Violent Classroom
  • Lustful shogun and his twentyone mistresses
  • Girl Boss Revenge
  • Sex and Fury
  • Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
  • Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture
  • Terrifying Girls High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
  • Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
  • Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
  • Terrifying Girls High School: Animal Courage
  • Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
  • Bohachi Bushido Saburai
  • The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
  • New Battles Without Honor and Humanity
  • The Bedevilled
  • Graveyard of Honor
  • Cops vs. Thugs
  • ''The Golden Dog''