Yōko Satomi

Yōko Satomi (里見瑤子, Satomi Yōko) is a Japanese pink film actress who has also used the name Saki Shiratori (白鳥 さき, Shiratori Saki).^[2] Variations on the spelling of her name include 里見瑶子, 里見瑤子, and 里美瑤子.^[3] She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Actress" award for her work in this genre in 1999 and 2001.

Life and career

In 1998 Satomi was given the Best New Actress, Third Place award at the Pink Grand Prix for her role in the Kokuei pink film 人妻と愛人　不倫ハメ覗き.^[4][5] The following year, her role in Yutaka Ikejima's Wolf Teacher 3: The Smell of School Uniforms (ザ・痴漢教師３　制服の匂い, Za chikan kyōshi 3: seifuku no nioi) (1999)^[6] earned her the Best Actress award at the ceremony.^[7] An interview with Satomi was the main feature of the September 1999 issue of P*G magazine, the leading journal covering the pink film genre.^[8]

Also in 1999 she appeared (as Saki Shiratori) with male AV-star Chocoball Mukai in Shungo Kaji's mock documentary film, Ekiben, a spoof of the AV industry which was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival.^[9][10] In a review of the film the U.S. publication Variety noted that Shiratori's performance as the director's "discovery" was especially good.^[10] AllRovi calls it a "funny and oddly poignant film".^[11] Satomi won her second Best Actress award for her performance in Mamoru Watanabe's Young Wive's Pleasure Lessons: Enslaved (若妻快楽レッスン　虜, Wakazuma kairaku ressun: toriko) (2001).^[12] Satomi was again the lead feature of P*G magazine in October 2002. This issue devoted a 57-page article to the five-year span of her career up to that time, and included another interview.^[13]

Partial filmography

Bibliography

English

• "Yoko Satomi". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• Saki Shiratori at the Internet Movie Database
• Yôko Satomi at the Internet Movie Database
• "SAKI SHIRATORI". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-07-15. 
• Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 335, 341, 161, 352, 364. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 

Japanese

• 里見瑶子 さとみ・ようこ (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-07-15.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• "里見 瑶子 (Satomi Youko )" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Retrieved 2009-07-14.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• "白鳥 さき (Shiratori Saki )" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Retrieved 2009-07-14.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• "里見瑤子（さとみようこ） (Profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). www.dmm.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-07-15.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• 里見遙子 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-07-15. 
• 白鳥さき (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-07-15. 
• 白鳥さき (in Japanese). Variety Japan. Retrieved 2009-07-15. 

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