Biography

Miki Sugimoto is almost inseparable from fellow 70's Toei film star Reiko Ike. Both stared in numerous sukeban films throughout the 1970's and helped build a generation of "Toei porn". Although a fashion model and star of Go Go Girl in All Night Fuji (a Japanese TV program), she made her film debut in Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (Onsen Mimizu Geisha, 1972) and was later best known for her film Zero Woman - Red Handcuffs (Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa, 1974), possibly the most psychotically over-the-top Japanese crime film from the 1970s. It perfectly illustrates the uncanny versatility she had honed and brought to perfection in her earlier sukeban roles. She left the film industry in 1978 to marry a former classmate-turned-businessman and become a nursery school teacher.

Selected Filmography:

• Violent Panic – The Big Crash (Boso Panikku – Dai Geki Totsu, 1976)
• Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa, 1974)
• Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School (Sukeban – Kankain Dasso, 1973)
• Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (Zenka onna: koroshi-bushi, 1973)
• Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (Kyôfu joshikôkô: bôkô rinchi kyôshitsu, 1973)
• Girl Boss: Escape from Reform School (Sukeban: Kankain Dasso, 1973)
• Girl Boss (Sukeban, 1973)
• Terrifying Girls High School: Women’s Violent Classroom (Kyofu Joshi Koko – Boryoku Kyoshitsu, 1972)
• Bullet Aesthetics (Teppo Dama No Bigaku, 1972)
• Girl Boss Guerilla (Sukeban gerira, 1972)
• Hot Springs Kiss Geisha (Onsen suppon geisha, 1972)
• Tokugawa Sex Ban: Lustful Lord (Tokugawa sekkusu kinshi-rei: shikijô daimyô, 1972)
• Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (Onsen mimizu geisha, 1972)