{{Short description|Japanese adult video star (born 1964)}} {{Infobox person | name = Kyōko Hashimoto | native_name = 橋本杏子 | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|2|15}} | birth_place = Saitama Prefecture, Japan | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = | spouse = | website = | awards = }}
{{nihongo|'''Kyōko Hashimoto'''|橋本杏子|Hashimoto Kyōko|lead=yes}} is a Japanese model, ''pink film'' actress and an early adult video (AV) star.
==Life and career==
===AV debut=== Hashimoto was born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan on February 15, 1964.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n0082|title=Kyoko Hashimoto 橋本杏子 Profile|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-23}}</ref> She entered the adult video (AV) industry as early as 1984 with the video ''3 Sisters Live Performance'' for the Boxland company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/?p=mcard&id=8541|title=3 Sisters Live Performance|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-23}}</ref> She also performed in a second Boxland video in 1984, ''Honban gāru anzu, chomechome sarechatta no Hashimoto Kyōko''.<ref name=arz1>{{cite web|url=http://www.arzon.jp/item_482735.html|script-title=ja:本番ガール 杏子、チョメチョメされちゃったの 橋本杏子|publisher=arzon.jp|accessdate=2013-10-23|language=Japanese}}</ref> Another early work was the 1986 ''Sexy Video Club 16'' for the pioneering AV studio Cosmos Plan.<ref name=arz2>{{cite web|url=http://www.arzon.jp/item_496198.html|script-title=ja:ビデオＳＥＸＹ倶楽部 １６ |publisher=arzon.jp|accessdate=2013-10-23|language=Japanese}}</ref>
In the mid to late 1980s she also appeared in a number of hardcore uncensored underground ("urabon") photobooks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n0082&mode=books|title=Kyoko Hashimoto 橋本杏子 Books|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-23}}</ref>
===Pink film=== By late 1985, she was working in ''pink film'', with a role in director Sachi Hamano's {{nihongo|''Misshitsuhen Taichōkyō''|密室変態調教}} which was released in October 1985 by Million Film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1985/di003080.htm|script-title=ja:密室変態調教|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-23|language=Japanese}}</ref> Two months later she appeared in the Nikkatsu ''Roman Porno'' film ''Zetsurin gal: Yaruki mun mun'' directed by Yōjirō Takita.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv29162/|script-title=ja:絶倫ギャル やる気ムンムン|publisher=MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-25|language=Japanese|archive-date=2013-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102154119/http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv29162/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hashimoto again worked with director Takita in the March 1986 Nikkatsu ''Roman Porno'' production ''Za mania: Kaikan seitai jikken'' with a screenplay by Shirō Yumeno.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv29180/|script-title=ja:ザ・マニア 快感生体実験|publisher=MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-25|language=Japanese|archive-date=2013-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102154220/http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv29180/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In June 1986, Hashimoto had the starring role in ''Sexy Battle Girls'' for Shintōhō Eiga, a takeoff on the mid-1980s television show ''Sukeban Deka'', where she plays a high-school girl who battles an evil headmaster using her special sexual ability, the "Venus Crush".<ref>{{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|url=https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis|url-access=registration|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis/page/n426 425]–426}}</ref> At the 8th Zoom-Up Film Festival in 1987, Hashimoto won the Best Actress award for her films in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/24_pinkfes/50th_schedule_new.html|title=PINK FILM CHRONICLE 1962-2012 -午後８時の映画祭|publisher=biglobe.ne.jp|accessdate=2013-10-28|language=Japanese|archive-date=2013-10-30|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131030094720/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/24_pinkfes/50th_schedule_new.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In another Shintōhō Eiga film, the 1987 ''Lesbian Harem'' directed by Tomoaki Hosoyama, Hashimoto played a lesbian who with her lover have decided to commit suicide but are instead enslaved by the queen of a lesbian realm.<ref>Weisser, p. 241</ref> In 1989, Hashimoto received further recognition for her ''pink film'' performances, garnering a Best Supporting Actress award at the first Pink Grand Prix ceremony for her work in the 1988 ''Genuine Masturbation: Finger Play'' and other films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1988.htm|title=Best Ten of 1988 1988年度ベストテン ＜第1回ピンク大賞＞|accessdate=2010-04-16|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese|archive-date=2012-08-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805233715/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1988.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Among her other 1988 films was ''Last Cabaret'', the second to last of Nikkatsu's ''Roman Porno'' series. The film, about a cabaret forced to close and the owner's daughter, who, depressed over the situation, searches for the club's former hostesses (Hashimoto among them), has been taken as a metaphor for the demise of the studio itself.<ref>Weisser, p. 227</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=150440|script-title=ja:ラスト・キャバレー(1988)|publisher=AllCinema|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}</ref>
In 1989, Hashimoto performed in two ''pink film'' projects for director Masahiro Kasai and Cinema Ark. The first was the supernatural themed ''Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima'' in October,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1989/dm002330.htm|script-title=ja:冴島奈緒 異常昂奮|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}</ref> which won Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1989.htm|title=Best Ten of 1989, 2nd Ceremony 1989年度ベストテン ＜第2回ピンク大賞＞|accessdate=2010-04-16|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese|archive-date=2012-08-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805232140/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1989.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Then she appeared in the November 1989 release ''Molester's Train: Get On from The Back!'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1989/dm002690.htm|script-title=ja:痴漢電車 後ろから乗って！|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}</ref> part of the long-running ''Molester's Train'' series.<ref>Weisser, pp. 276-279</ref>
Hashimoto took one of the Best Actress awards for 1991 films at the Pink Grand Prix for her starring role in ''The Masturbating Lesbians'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1991.htm|title=Best Ten of 1991, 4th Ceremony 1991年度ベストテン ＜第4回ピンク大賞＞|accessdate=2010-04-16|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese|archive-date=2012-08-06|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120806001750/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1991.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> which was directed by Yutaka Ikejima and distributed by Xces.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7|page=345}}</ref> In the six years from late 1985 to the end of 1991, Hashimoto appeared in at least 90 films, many of them for the Shintōhō Eiga studio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0085070.htm|script-title=ja:橋本杏子|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}</ref> This was a period of crisis for the ''pink film'' industry largely caused by the advent of adult videos in Japan and Hashimoto was known as "the last pink actress" ({{nihongo2|最後のピンク女優}}), with the meaning that she was likely to be the last successful actress in the genre.<ref name=shintoho>{{cite web|url=http://xcity.jp/archives/free/shin-toho/HISTORY/K_HASHIMOTO/index.html|title=File 0012 橋本杏子|publisher=Shintoho Official Website|accessdate=2013-10-28|language=Japanese}}</ref>
===Later career=== In November 1992, Hashimoto had a featured role in a mainstream film, the superhero comedy {{nihongo|''Daikansho kamen''|大感傷仮面}},<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv27434/|script-title=ja:大感傷仮面|publisher=MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040020/http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv27434/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and in 1995 she had a small role as a reporter in the video (and later film) Weather Woman for director Tomoaki Hosoyama, with whom she had earlier worked in Lesbian Harem.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv27854/|script-title=ja:お天気お姉さん|publisher=MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-29|language=Japanese|archive-date=2012-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012173434/http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv27854/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Hashimoto had retired from the ''pink film'' scene<ref name=shintoho/> but returned in September 2002 when she once again teamed up with director Yutaka Ikejima in his ''Delivery Health Girl: The Moisture of Silken Skin'' where she played Akino, a delivery health girl (call girl).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2002/dz003240.htm|script-title=ja:デリヘル嬢 絹肌のうるおい|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}</ref> In November 2003, she starred in another ''pink film'', ''Lesbian Mother-in-Law: Son Exchange'' with Motoko Sasaki.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2003/ea004140.htm|script-title=ja:義母レズ 息子交換|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>Sharp, p. 359</ref>
Hashimoto also resumed work in adult videos in 2002 co-starring with Madoka Ozawa and Yumika Hayashi in the Moodyz production ''Shitamachi Mixed Bathouse Story''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/?p=mcard&id=5058|title=Shitamachi Mixed Bathouse Story|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-28}}</ref> Then from 2009 to 2012, she appeared in five videos for Attackers (including two entries in their "Slave Castle" series), all directed by Shinichi Kawamura.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.attackers.net/actress/-/detail/=/id=3305/|script-title=ja:橋本杏子 ( はしもときょうこ )|publisher=attackers.net|accessdate=2013-10-28|language=Japanese|archive-date=2013-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226035454/http://www.attackers.net/actress/-/detail/=/id=3305/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Pink films== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Release date<ref>Filmography based on {{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n0082|title=Kyoko Hashimoto 橋本杏子 Profile|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-23}}, {{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0085070.htm|script-title=ja:橋本杏子|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-25|language=Japanese}} and {{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/person/90349/|script-title=ja:橋本杏子(ハシモトキョウコ)の映画作品|publisher=MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-25|language=Japanese|archive-date=2013-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103201811/http://movie.walkerplus.com/person/90349/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ! Film title ! Studio ! Director ! Notes |- | 1986-06 | ''Sexy Battle Girls'' | Shintōhō Eiga | Mototsugu Watanabe | With Yukijiro Hotaru and Yutaka Ikejima |- | 1987-04-18 | ''Lesbian Harem'' | Shintōhō Eiga | Tomoaki Hosoyama | With Reika Kano and Chiemi Akimoto |- | 1989-10-13 | ''Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima'' | Cinema Ark / Xces | Masahiro Kasai | With Nao Saejima |- | 1989-11-24 | ''Molester's Train: Get On from The Back!'' | Cinema Ark / Xces | Masahiro Kasai | With Yuka Ishihara |- |}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0999206|name=Kyōko Hashimoto}} * {{jmdb name|0085070|name=橋本杏子}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hashimoto, Kyoko}} Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Japanese female adult models Category:Japanese pornographic film actresses Category:Pink film actors Category:Actresses from Saitama Prefecture