Yumi Yoshiyuki | |
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Born |
Japan |
August 19, 1965
Occupation |
Film director Actress Screenwriter |
Years active | 1993 – |
Yumi Yoshiyuki (吉行由実 or 吉行由美 Yoshiyuki Yumi?) is a Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter best known for her work in the pink film genre.
While studying economics at Dokkyo University, Yoshiyuki developed a love of film. She debuted as an actress in the pink film genre in 1993 in director Toshiki Satō's Petting Lesbians: Sensitive Zone (ペッティング・レズ 性感帯 Petting lez: seikan-tai?). By the time of her directorial debut three years later, she had appeared in over 100 pink productions. Among the prominent pink film directors she has acted for is Satoru Kobayashi, the director of the first pink film, Flesh Market (1962). She appeared in Kobayashi's Erotic Ghost Story: Female Ghost in Heat (色欲怪談 発情女ゆうれい Shikiyoku Kaidan: Hatsujo Onna Yurei?) (1995), starring AV idol, Nao Saejima. The mainstream Yokohama Film Festival awarded Yoshiyuki with the Best Supporting Actress title for her work in director Akio Jissoji's Rampo Edogawa adaptation, The D-Slope Murder Case (D坂の殺人事件 D-Zaka no satsujin jiken?).