Motoko Sasaki is a Japanese pink film actress and striptease performer.
13 Facts About Motoko Sasaki
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Motoko Sasaki entered the pink film profession at the advanced age of 29, became a star in the field at 31, and won a Best Actress award for her work in this genre in 2003 at the age of 36.
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Motoko Sasaki became interested in the stage in middle school, and first began acting in her high school drama club.
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Motoko Sasaki had an invitation to pursue the study of acting after graduation from high school, but her father believed that a girl should not attend college.
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Motoko Sasaki continued acting in community theater at this time, gaining acting experience in the Shingeki style.
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Motoko Sasaki was 22 years of age at the time, and she decided to reject the typical life of marriage and raising children; with 1.5 million yen saved from her salary, she moved to Tokyo to pursue an acting career.
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In Tokyo Motoko Sasaki was recruited to perform as a stripper.
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Motoko Sasaki invested her earnings into her wardrobe and put effort into her interpretations of the songs to which she danced.
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Motoko Sasaki made her pink film debut in 1996 at the unusually advanced age of 29.
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Motoko Sasaki later joked that since young actresses are not abundant in pink films, she felt confident in her new line of work.
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Motoko Sasaki's acting training and experience has given her versatility in her pink film career, in which she is competent in both serious and comic roles.
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In Nopan Amadera: Ureta Shigemi Motoko Sasaki actually shaved her head for the role of a teacher who becomes a Buddhist nun.
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Motoko Sasaki won the Best Actress award at the Pink Grand Prix for her performance in Yutaka Ikejima's Adulterous Wife's Dirty Afternoon, which was given the Silver Prize for Best Film at the ceremony.