Naomi Tani took her screen name "Tani" from the novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki and "Naomi" from the central character in his important early work A Fool's Love.
13 Facts About Naomi Tani
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Experiments on the Human Body was a war drama in which Naomi Tani played a nurse in China where Japanese doctors are performing experiments on Chinese POWs.
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Naomi Tani had a minor role in director Mamoru Watanabe's Slave Widow, which starred major "pink" actresses Noriko Tatsumi and Mari lwai.
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Naomi Tani worked several times with the prolific director Shinya Yamamoto in such films as Degenerate, Memoirs of Modern Love: Curious Age and Season For Rapists.
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Naomi Tani reportedly appeared in more than 200 films before her work with Nikkatsu, for which she is best known today.
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Naomi Tani manages to reverse the roles by binding and torturing the fan instead.
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Besides Konuma, Naomi Tani worked for many of the other most prominent Roman porno directors while at Nikkatsu.
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Naomi Tani was nominated for best actress by the Japanese Academy for two of her Nikkatsu Roman Porno films, Lady Black Rose, and Flesh of the Rose,.
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Naomi Tani was the ideal object for men to take their anxieties out in, like the patient mother being pummelled by her sons.
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Naomi Tani was the Mother Goddess in bondage, the passive cross-bearer of masculine inadequacy.
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Naomi Tani celebrated her retirement by issuing a vocal album entitled Modae no Heya.
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In preparation for this event, Naomi Tani was interviewed by the US publication, Asian Cult Cinema for its April, 1998 issue.
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Four of Oniroku Dan's stories, originally published in Japanese in 1997, were published in English in 2010 by Vertical, Inc The collection of these stories is titled Season of Infidelity; the collection's last story, Bewitching Bloom, is a telling of Dan's relationship with Naomi Tani, and includes notes about three subsequent Nikkatsu "Queens"; Junko Mabuki, Izumi Shima, and Miki Takakura.