Lemon Hanazawa
Also Known As: Remon Hanazawa
Biography: Lemon Hanazawa, a.k.a. Remon Hanazawa, is a Japanese pink film actress who has also performed in adult videos. She has appeared in award-winning pink films such as Lunch Box and Molester's Train: Sensitive Fingers. She was named "Best New Actress" for her work in this genre in 2004, and "Best Actress" second place in 2005 at the Pink Grand Prix. The Kansai region Pinky Ribbon Awards chose Hanazawa for Best Supporting Actress in 2005, and Outstanding Performance by an Actress in 2007. Hanazawa began working in adult videos at least as early as December 2003 when she took part in the "train molester" video Chikan deruta haji tai for the Starboard studio. In May 2004, she appeared with Sakura Sakurada in the lesbian-themed Female-Littered Lesbian Neruton for the Moodyz studio and has also performed in a number of other adult videos for various studios. Hanazawa made her pink film debut in Shinji Imaoka's Lunch Box, which was selected as Best Film at the 2004 Pink Grand Prix. In the film, Hanazawa plays the role of one of star Yumika Hayashi's co-workers and sexual rivals. Her performance in this film earned her a "Best New Actress" award at the 2004 Pink Grand Prix, beating popular AV idol Sora Aoi, who had also made her pink film debut that year. During 2004 Hanazawa performed in 20 of these theatrical pink film releases. Her performance in Akira Katō's Teacher with Beautiful Skin: Big Tit Vibe-Torture, earned her the Best Actress, 2nd place award at the 2005 Pink Grand Prix ceremony. In his book Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema, Jasper Sharp uses one of Hanazawa's scenes in Yutaka Ikejima's Family Gets Rude Chapter 1: Perverts' Fun to illustrate the creative means pink film directors employ to suggest more than is legally possible in Japanese softcore pornography. Hanazawa masturbates in a scene that Sharp characterizes as "pretty lewd", yet she is seen only in soft focus in the background. The foreground focus of the camera is a bouquet of flowers, behind which the masturbating Hanazawa moans, "Look at my flower!" Besides Imaoka and Ikejima, other major pink film directors in whose films Hanazawa has appeared include Toshiki Satō, Tetsuya Takehora, Yumi Yoshiyuki, Sachi Hamano, and Yoshikazu Katō. Katō's Molester's Train: Sensitive Fingers gave Hanazawa a second appearance in a Pink Grand Prix Best Film-winner. The film was also given the Gold Prize at the Pinky Ribbon Awards. Hanazawa also appeared with Kyōko Kazama, Akiho Yoshizawa and Mihiro in the Edo period historical costume drama, The Inner Palace: Indecent War, in July 2006. A sequel The Inner Palace: Flower of War came out in August of the same year. The two videos were released by AV studio Max-A in hardcore versions under their DoraMax label and also shorter softcore R-15 rated versions for the Pure Max label. In February 2008, Hanazawa had a supporting role in the mainstream horror film Rika: The Zombie Killer starring Risa Kudō. The movie, described by one reviewer as an "outrageously silly film", was released on DVD with English subtitles in September 2009. Hanazawa was one of several colleagues and friends who appeared in Korean-Japanese director Tetsuaki Matsue's 2009 documentary on Yumika Hayashi, Annyeong Yumika.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: July 17, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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八つ墓村
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Genres: Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Zombie Hunter Rika
Overview: When typical Japanese high school student Rika skips school to visit her grandfather, she fails to take into account the fact that his remote village is infested with the living dead.
Genres: Horror Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-18
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Sensual Ward: Wet Red Lips
Overview: The Slit-Mouthed Woman is a striking example of Pink Cinema that mixes horror with eroticism in a way that is both unsettling and genuinely original. A young couple enter a hospital after rumours that a demonic spirit known as the slit mouthed woman had been seen there. Once inside, they are possessed by an overwhelming desire to have sex and sneak off into an empty room to satiate their lusts. Then out of the darkness a perverse and disfigured woman appears and confronts them.The Slit-Mouthed Woman, a.k.a Kuchisake, is an original hybrid of pink erotica and horror from the controversial J-sploitation director Takuaki Hashiguchi whose previous films include the disturbingly nasty Woman Prisoner Torture. The Slit-Mouthed Woman features impressive special make-up effects from Takashi Oda, who worked alongside the acclaimed actor/director Beat Takeshi Kitano on his Yakuza action film Sonatine.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-28
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The Japanese Wife Next Door
Overview: Office worker Takashi shares a drink one night with two women: Ryoko and Sakura. Fate intervenes and he subsequently ends up marrying Sakura. The newlywed couple move into Takashi’s family home (shared with his sister, father and grandfather), but Sakura’s nymphomaniac sex drive soon starts to cause tensions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-23
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隣の未亡人 ～幼妻エプロン日和～
Overview: Asako is a widow who manages a small apartment building. The film gives us a glimpse into the lives of her tenants, as well as Asako herself, who must decide whether she is ready or not to find new love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-24
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The Japanese Wife Next Door: Part 2
Overview: A businessman’s life is almost complete; all he needs is a wife. He meets two women… and this time he marries the rich one — whose family just happens to be a bunch of sadomasochistic sociopaths!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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Educating Yuna 2
Overview: After becoming the professor's human BDSM play thing, Yuna yearns for a more traditional life. She is now happily married, but still there is something deep inside her that makes it difficult to keep up her vanilla life. Eventually, she returns to the professors estate to feel the sensual grip of the rope again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-03
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Apartment Wife Orgy: Swap Club
Overview: Akiko, Haruka, and Fuyumi, all married women living in a housing complex, are living unsatisfied lives as a married couple. The three of them learn about each other's existence after Haruka posts something on the internet. Haruka suggests swapping to Akiko, but Akiko's husband, Kuriichi, doesn't understand, so she goes out alone to play with Haruka and his wife, where she awakens to a new self...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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Lunch Box
Overview: The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-20
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Targeted Girls’ Dormitory 3: My Senior is a Lesbian
Overview: Misaki has been attending a women's university in Tokyo since this spring, and has been living with her boyfriend, Kenji, who is her senior in high school. However, one night she discoveres that he cheated on her and leaves him. She has no money and no place to go Misaki is in the women's dormitory at the university. She decided to enter the "Shirayuri Dormitory". The people who gently called out to Misaki were Shizuka, a fourth-year student and dormitory director, and Saori, a third-year student. A welcome party was held in Shizuka's room, and when Misaki returned to the room, Shizuka and her friends were in a mysterious atmosphere. The two were lesbians. Shizuka then taught Misaki about her university life, and she said that she thought of herself as her real sister and that she could talk to her about anything.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-25
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Landscape of Love: LOVE at Camp
Overview: Hideaki is a straight college student. He also has a girlfriend named Juri, and she sometimes recalls a young man she met when she was a high school student who aspired to be a painter...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-22
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The Con Artist
Overview: In a small village in the Japanese countryside, Jed the farmer and Biff the local cop are best friends who always compete over the hearts of the local women. One day, a mysteriously hot stranger comes to town and both of them fall for her. The plot thickens as they independently propose marriage to her, and she in turn agrees to both proposals! A comedy of errors from Japan’s most prolific Pink films director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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Tokyo Booty Nights
Overview: Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him to have sex with the actress. Akiko goes to her high school reunion and is raped by a drunken guy, and then hooks up with her ex-high school love. A dark and comedic look at contemporary relationships and the pitfalls of married life. The story was written by Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard Prize Winner, Masahiro Kobayashi. (Pink Eiga)
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-01
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Annyeong Yumika
Overview: Don't get it twisted: Yumika Hayashi is way more than just a porn star. She's a Rorschach test, film theory with curves, her screen image throwing off endless refractions within the hearts of those who knew her, loved her, or just got off to her. The "iron woman" of Japanese erotic film, best known for critically-acclaimed pink eiga LUNCHBOX, Hayashi died in 2005 at age 35, but in ANNYONG YUMIKA, the new documentary by Tetsuaki Matsue (LIVE TAPE), Yumika's legend is reborn, her passion made immortal. (Description by Subway Cinema)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-11
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Broadcast Girl
Overview: Aya Hirai was a unsuccessful news reporter. One day someone took a snapshot of her kissing the director. She was then blackmailed by someone but her career changed dramatically after that… 2 years later, Aya replayed Yuko Fujisaki’s position as the main anchor. Yuko would by al means take back whatever belonged to her. Yuko could not lose her position as the main anchor because her boyfriend was killed by a gun shot in Palestine 6 years ago. She was then…
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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Ninja She-Devil
Overview: A female assassin has a special gift. While receiving a secret mission, that will require her special skill, she embarks on a very dangerous mission that forces her to encounter many dangerous enemies.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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The Strawberries and the Gun
Overview: Older brother Kenichi and younger brother Takashi had not seen each other for a while, but they meet at their estranged father's funeral. The father had moved to a small town and remarried and has a daughter, who is supposed to be their half-sister. Her whereabouts are unknown, as she left home at a very young age. One of the brothers mistakenly meets her, under very strange and disturbing circumstances...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Aiyoku: Love Desire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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I Was A Teenage Ninja
Overview: It's hard enough being a teenager, but being a 19 year old ninja with an impossible assignment is even worse! Unfortunately for Sora, she is and she's got one... impossible mission that is. As Japan is torn apart by warring factions, it falls ... Full Descriptionupon the master assassins to carry out the tasks at which even great armies have failed. There just aren't enough ninja to go around, so when a plot to eliminate a rising shaman becomes known, the ninja who gets dropped into the frying tempura batter is Sora. Sora may not know which end of a ninjaken to stick her sheath on, but she's young, willing and her skills at seduction are just fine! Famed AV girl Saki Ninomiya gives it all she's got in I WAS A TEENAGE NINJA!
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-25
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Love Play Behind Closed Door, Make Me Wild
Overview: A mysterious erotic drama depicting the love affairs woven by the successive residents of a certain room. Director Fukamachi Akira, who knows pink films inside and out, has created an ambitious work depicting the ties of life and sex through the love stories of three couples who share the same room. A bird kept in a certain locked room has been watching over the residents. Ryuji (Shirato Katsunori) pressures his newly dating Miki (Tanigawa Aya) into living with him, but he has debts. A married woman ends up in the room after an affair with a university student. Saburo (Nakamitsu Seiji), whose wife and child have run away from him, enjoys life with Haruka (Hanazawa Lemon), who looks after him, but...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-16
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美肌の湿り 牝臭で誘う
Overview: Rinko begins working at a small cinema owned by the widower Kentarou. The two love watching movies together, but various issues arise.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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Physical secretary, wet pantyhose
Overview: This sensual drama depicts the consequences of love between a woman who has had a traumatic experience and falsifies her background, and a lawyer. Director Yutaka Ikeshima, who also stars in this thrilling suspense film, depicts a tumultuous development reminiscent of Hitchcock's works. Fuyumi (Ikeda Kozue), who repeatedly steals money to raise funds for a mysterious organization, infiltrates the office of lawyer Sakisaka (Honda Kikujiro) as his secretary, steals a large sum of money from his safe while he is on a business trip, and makes her escape. Sakisaka is concerned about Fuyumi's emotional instability, and he learns a surprising truth from her former lover, detective Yui (Mayuko Sasaki).
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-29
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