is a pink film actress and an early Japanese AV idol of the 1980s.
Life and career Kikuchi was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on April 5, 1965. She started as a fuzoku (sex industry) girl in hotels and soaplands and also made appearances in several underground pornographic films. Her official AV debut was at age twenty in the video Beautiful D-Cup Girl, Sister L, released in September 1985 by CineMagic. Kikuchi has been called the first adult video performer whose career was built around her exceptionally large breasts for that time in Japan. The Big Bust genre, or , which Kikuchi pioneered would be set "on fire" at the end of the 1980s with the debut of Kimiko Matsuzaka in 1989, and become established as a major genre of adult entertainment in Japan in the 1990s.
Kikuchi's pink film debut was with Million Film in their in 1986. In August of the same year, she starred in a pink film for Shintoho Eiga, . This film has Kikuchi playing "Eri", a nude model and AV actress who becomes romantically involved with her manager. In 1988 she starred in one of Nikkatsu's last Roman Porno films, , and in 1993 she would star in another theatrical Big-Bust title (), for Excess Films, Nikkatsu's post-Roman Porno line of theatrical softcore pornography. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kikuchi also appeared in a number of photobooks, mostly with the BDSM theme of rope bondage.
In 2003, she was working as a lecturer/demonstrator at the AV Cultures School, a school started by male AV actor, Shinji Kubo, to train future AV directors.
By December 2004 Kikuchi, aged 39, had returned to AV with a series of videos for Madonna, a studio specializing in "mature" actresses. She also performed in Mourning Dress Slave / Eri Kikuchi in July 2005 for CineMagic, the AV company she had made her début with 20 years previously.
As of 2013, Eri Kikuchi was billed at the Nagoya fashion health Nishiki VIP Toshima.
Partial videography Release dateFilmography based on: , and Video title Company Director Notes 1985-09 Beautiful D-Cup Girl, Sister LD-CUPD-Cup Bishojo Sister L CineMagic AV debut 1986-02-15 Slave FlowerD-CUP CineMagicCS-01 With Yuuko Morishita 1988-05-25 Romance Collection Deluxe Athena EizouAV-15 Hikaru Kito With Keiko Nakazawa, Itsumi Shikata, Anri Inoue, Mika Kawamura, Kei Asami & Michiru Kaneko 1988-06-23 Rose Lady, The Doll 2D-CUP CineMagicVS-64 Namio Ikebe 1993-01-29 F-Cup TyphoonD-CUP KukiQX-269 Harry Sugino 2001-01-13 Lesbian Collection 10D-CUP CineMagicCS-268 With Anri Inoue & Hikari Harada 2001-08-10 Pink Cinema Paradise 3 Try HeartPKD-029 With Yasuko Yagami 2004-12-15 Madonna School - Rebellion of Mothers MadonnaJUK-125 (VHS)JUKD-125 (DVD) With Ayano Murasaki 2005-01-15 Failure As A Wife MadonnaJUK-140 (VHS)JUKD-140 (DVD) With Mai Nakagawa 2005-03-11 Abnormal Hunting: Mourning Dress Slave 27 CineMagic CollectVS-770 (VHS) Hidekazu Takahara 2005-03-15 Married Woman and Lover MadonnaJUK-170 (VHS)JUKD-170 (DVD) With Natsuko Kayama 2005-04-15 Oiran (Courtesan) MadonnaJUK-183 (VHS)JUKD-183 (DVD) With Aoi Yoshino & Hitomi Tachibana 2005-05-15 Failure as a Mother 5 MadonnaJUK-201 (VHS)JUKD-201 (DVD) With Riho Matsuoka 2005-07-22 Mourning Dress Slave / Eri Kikuchi CineMagic CollectDD-140 Hidekazu Takahara 2006-03-10 Duty Vol.64 J-SpotDT-64 Uncensored 2007-03-23 The Doll, Tortured Bride CineMagic CollectDD-238 Namio IkebeShinsuke Kawazu Compilation containing two earlier videos Rose Lady - The Doll & Tortured Bride
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