Rumi Tama aka Rumi Kimata is a Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter, known for her work in the pink film genre.
17 Facts About Rumi Tama
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Rumi Tama began directing in 1981, helming at least 80 films as of 2002.
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Rumi Tama was born Rumi Otani on January 15,1949 in Tokyo's Setagaya neighborhood.
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Rumi Tama's family had close ties to the film industry.
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Rumi Tama's father was a set designer at Daiei Film, and her uncle was the cinematographer Kimio Watanabe at the same studio.
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Rumi Tama's brother was employed at Toei as a lighting technician.
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Rumi Tama's sister became a pink film actress, following Tama's entry into the field, appearing in Masao Adachi's Rebel Woman: Dream Hell.
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Rumi Tama made her film debut as an actress in the 1965 Tokyo Eiga pink film release, Naked Girl Mountain Range.
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Rumi Tama starred in many of these independent softcore theatrical films throughout the rest of the decade, appearing often in films by Akitaka Kimata and his son Akiyoshi, who was born in 1946 and directed under the stagename Seiji Izumi.
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Typical of the films Rumi Tama made with her future husband was Pervert, in which she was cast as one of the victims of a college professor who enjoys capturing women for torture.
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Rumi Tama retired from the film industry for a time in the early 1970s to devote time to her family.
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Rumi Tama came out of retirement to act for the major film studio Nikkatsu in 1975, and appeared in their Roman Porno films for the next six years.
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Nikkatsu chose Rumi Tama to be Miyashita's successor in the series, and her debut film for the studio was Nishimura's New Apartment Wife: Prostitution Group Building 13.
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Rumi Tama refused to act in the next entry in the Apartment Wife series, director Shinichi Shiratori's New Apartment Wife: Swapping, complaining that the script was inferior.
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Rumi Tama played pop-singer-turned-Roman Porno-actress Runa Takamura's mother in Koyu Ohara's 1976 Roman Porno, Runa's Confession: The Men Who Flocked Around Me, based on Takamura's life.
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Rumi Tama returned to the Apartment Wife series in 1978, for Apartment Wife: Night By Ourselves.
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Rumi Tama debuted in 1971 and founded her own studio in 1984.