Nao Saejima

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Nao Saejima (冴島奈緒 - Saejima Nao; 1968-2012) was a Japanese AV idol and model of the 1980s and 1990s who also starred in photobooks, V-Cinema, and feature films, including Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.

Life and career

AV career

Nao Saejima was born in Tokyo on March 23, 1968. She began appearing as a gravure idol in 1985 and appeared on the nighttime TV variety show, 11 P.M. in 1987. She made her AV debut the same year[3] with No.1 F-Cup, Nao Saejima - Saejima's Awakening (冴島奈緒/FカップNo.1 奈緒の目覚め - Saejima Nao/F Kappu No. 1 Saejima no Mezame).[4] With her slim figure and large breasts she quickly became a popular AV performer, appearing in at least 40 adult videos within two years of her debut.[5] She ceased AV appearances for five years beginning in 1991. During this time she worked as a nude model while travelling between the United States and Japan. Her AV career resumed in 1996 and concluded with her retirement in 2002.

Theatrical career

Saejima appeared in one of Nikkatsu's last Roman Porno films in 1988. The studio ceased production of this long-running series of theatrical softcore porn films in 1988, and declared bankruptcy soon afterwards.[6] Through its Excess Films line, the studio continued to release theatrical pornography for several more years.[7] Nao Saejima was hired by Excess Films to star in her own theatrical release, Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima (冴島奈緒 異常昂奮 - Saejima Nao: Ijo Kofun) in 1989. Critical reaction to Saejima's performance was surprisingly positive, since AV performers were not thought capable of any genuine acting necessary for performing roles in theatrical films. This film has Saejima as a woman with the ability to communicate with the spirit world. She and her husband use this ability to swindle money out of grieving families of recently deceased. When the king of the spirit world learns of these shady practises, he kidnaps Saejima. Saejima's husband and a Chinese monk travel to the underworld to rescue her, encountering various bizarre sexual escapades on the way.[8]

Among several other starring pink film and V-cinema roles in the 1990s, Saejima starred in Okura studio's Erotic Ghost Story: Female Ghost in Heat (色欲怪談 発情女ゆうれい - Shikiyoku Kaidan: Hatsujo Onna Yurei, 1995). In this supernatural sex-thriller she plays the role of the wife of a doctor who is haunted by a sex-hungry female spirit.[9] The film was directed by Satoru Kobayashi, the director of the first pink film, Flesh Market (1962).[10] As a result of Saejima's proven acting ability in these theatrical pink films, cult director Hisayasu Sato chose her for a major role in his second mainstream film, Meet Me In The Dream: Wonderland (1996).[8] The prolific Sato's last film for over a year, it was based on Naoki Yamamoto's manga about a woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder.[11]

Retirement

A woman of many talents, during her AV and acting career Saejima also worked as a writer, a rock group vocalist, and a beauty counselor. After her retirement from public appearances in 2002 it was reported that she was working as an artist.[12] In a sign of Saejima's international popularity, the Taiwan rock band, Goodbye!Nao! was named in tribute to her.[13] Saejima died on September 29, 2012, after a five-year battle with cancer.[14]


Selected filmography

Video title[15] Release date Company Director Notes Video cover
Flashback
フラッシュバック
October 1987 Video Maker ID# KA-1128
異常性欲 1987 Miss Christine ID# DMC-001
乳白色があふれて 1987 VIP ID# FV-8728
Milky White
乳白色があふれて
1987 VIP ID# 3C-024
Breasts (Titties)
乳房(オッパイ)
Chibusa (Oppai)
1987 Kuki Jackie
冴島奈緒 アクメ記念日 January 23, 1988 Nikkatsu 瀬川正仁
冴島奈緒 監禁 May 1988 Million Films 浜野佐知
いまどきの天使たち
Imadoki no tenshitachi
1988 VIP
Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima
冴島奈緒 異常昂奮
Saejima Nao: Ijo Kofun
October 13, 1989 Excess Films Masahiro Kasai Pink film thriller
Blue Film
ブルーフィルム
1989 V&R Planning Tohjiro ID# VR-154
急所攻撃 Samm / Miss Christine January 1999 ID# DMC-019
Erotic Ghost Story: Female Ghost in Heat
色欲怪談 発情女ゆうれい
Shikiyoku Kaidan: Hatsujo Onna Yurei
August 25, 1995 Okura Satoru Kobayashi supernatural sex-thriller
BEST 4 Hours / Nao Saejima
BEST 4時間 冴島奈緒
December 28, 2005 Atlas21 Taro Matsumoto Compilation containing 5 works
Alice Memories Vol. 1
アリスメモリーズVol.1
December 28, 2005 Alice Japan Compilation VCD
Saipan Story
サイパンストーリー
Five Star ID# FV-8728
Sexy Mate 1
セクシーメイツ1女優紹介のところにノイズあり
Athena Adolfo ID# AS-70
Sexy Mate 3
セクシーメイツ3
Athena Adolfo ID# AS-80
セクシーメイツ4KOKAN艶ジェル Athena Adolfo ID# AS-85

Sources

References

  1. Infobox data from: 冴島奈緒 - Nao Saejima (Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
  2. C.J."’80s AV actress Nao Saejima dies at 44, star of ‘roman porno’ and ‘pink’ films The Tokyo Reporter 2012-10-25.
  3. BEST 4 Hours / Nao Saejima (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2007-06-04. “'Nao Saejima' who debuted in 1987”
  4. 1987. AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Retrieved on 2007-07-21.
  5. For a filmography of Saejima's Adult Videos, and theatrical and TV appearances, see the Japanese Wikipedia article
  6. Macias, Patrick (2001). "Nikkatsu's Roman Porno", TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion (English). San Francisco: Cadence Books, 187-188. ISBN 1-56931-681-3. 
  7. Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications, p.63. ISBN 1-88928-852-7. “Nikkatsu... dumped money into a new "B" variation of the pinku eiga called Excess Films. With some exceptions, Excess was never taken seriously by the critics, although it managed to survive as an intermittent porn production studio - proudly lensing 35 mm pink films for at least another decade.” 
  8. 8.0 8.1 Weisser, p.35.
  9. Weisser, p.130.
  10. Nao Saejima at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

  11. Firsching, Robert. Apartment Wife: Mid-Afternoon Love Affair (English). All Movie Guide. Retrieved on 2007-09-11.
  12. Porn starlets move on to inspiring second careers (English). Mainichi Shimbun (January 7, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
  13. "Events & Entertainment", Taipei Times, June 23, 2006, p. p.14. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
  14. C.J."’80s AV actress Nao Saejima dies at 44, star of ‘roman porno’ and ‘pink’ films The Tokyo Reporter 2012-10-25.
  15. Filmography from Nao (Saejima Nao) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on March 4, 2007.; 冴島奈緒 (Saejima Nao) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on March 4, 2007. (Google translation); Discography / Video (Japanese). www.saejima.com. Retrieved on June 29, 2008. (Google translation); and 冴島奈緒 (Saejima Nao) (Japanese). www.e-walkjp.com/. Retrieved on June 29, 2008. (Google translation)



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