Biography

Reiko Oshida, (b 1948) while not as prolific as other Sukeban stars like Miki Sugimoto and Reiko Ike, got her career started early, winning the 1966 International Teen Princess pageant (held in Chicago, Illinois) and appearing in the Daiei Studios film School for Thieves (Kigeki: dôrobô gakkô, 1968), a crime comedy that highlighted her talents as a sexy, sweet-natured comedienne, as well as having a recurring role in the proto Charlie's Angels Japanese television show Playgirl (1969-1974). She took top billing in Toei's Deliquent Girl Boss series, staring in all four films. A beautiful, sweet-natured Amazon, Oshida embodies a big-boned klutziness and an alternately wistful/whimsical action star persona that is very charming and most unusual for the time period. Unlike her contemporaries, who quickly faded from sight after the 1970s, Oshida kept working, appearing sporadically in films, last appearing in Susumu Fukuhara's Satoru: Fourteen (Shonen to hoshi to jitensha, 2005). She also had a brief career as a J-Pop Idol, releasing several records on Sony Music label in the early 70s.

Selected Filmography:

• Satoru: Fourteen (Shonen to hoshi to jitensha, 2005)
• Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist (Mayumi, 1990)
• Jealousy Game (1982)
• Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai, 1971)
• Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad Of Yokohama Hoods (Zubekô banchô: Hamagure Kazoe Uta, 1971)
• Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters (Zubekô banchô: Tokyo Nagaremono aka Girl Vagrants of Tokyo, 1970)
• Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (Yume Wa Yoru Hirakua aka Tokyo Bad Girls, 1970)
• Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive (Mekurano Oichi inochi moraimasu, 1970)
• Playgirl (TV, 1969 - 1974)
• School for Thieves (Kigeki: dôrobô gakkô, 1968)