Kurumi Morishita

Kurumi Morishita
Born (1979-07-29) July 29, 1979[1]
Akita, Akita, Japan
Ethnicity Japanese
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Website http://blog.livedoor.jp/morisitakurumi/

Kurumi Morishita (森下くるみ Morishita Kurumi) is an actress, writer and a former adult video actress. She has been described as a legendary AV Idol and an "AV Queen".[2] She retired from the adult entertainment industry in 2009.

Life and career

Morishita was born on July 29, 1979 in Akita, Japan. In an interview from early in her career she describes her difficult family life. Her father was a physically abusive alcoholic who terrorized her and her brother until her parents' divorce when Morishita was in her junior year in high school. Although she considered her mother her only parent, she remained in touch with her father. She says that her early need for self-reliance caused her not to trust others or be able to open up to people. The interviewer describes her as having an "unusually cold and solitary personality."[3] Morishita attended the Akita Technical High School and then worked as a shop girl in Tokyo. She was recruited into the AV industry in Tokyo's Shinjuku district.[4]

AV debut - SOD

Morishita began her adult video career in September 1998 at age nineteen with the Soft On Demand studio where she began her long association with the director TOHJIRO.[4][5] For the next three years under an exclusive contract[6] she continued to make videos for SOD, an "indie" studio known for more hardcore activities than some of the more mainstream studios. Morishita has said that she did not think SOD was making her do hardcore scenes, but that her work was more risque than most other AV actresses and "I think the way I do them is better befitting an AV actress."[3] Morishita was considered the studio's most prominent actress during her tenure with SOD when she was called "The Queen of Independent AVs", a title which she says she did not like.[3] In 2002, SOD celebrated her career by issuing a four volume retrospective of her work with the studio Kurumi Morishita - History (森下くるみヒストリー). Each of the 2-hour compilations contained scenes from six (five for Vol. 4) of her SOD videos.[7]

While at SOD, Murishita also starred in an SOD produced V-Cinema production Patty the High School Fighter of Love (恋身女子校生パティ Renshin Joshikousei Patty) directed by Kazuhiko Matsumoto and co-starring another noted director, Toru Muranishi.[8] The video, based on the manga of the same name, was released in joint adult (90 min) and softcore (60 min.) versions by SOD in July 2000.[9]

Dogma

Dogma studio was founded by director TOHJIRO in 2001 as part of SOD but in 2002 broke off to become an independent company. At that time Morishita left SOD to join Dogma and TOHJIRO as a contract actress.[10] Morishita has starred in most of the genres popular at Dogma which is known for its extreme and sometimes bizarre fetish videos which include bondage, forced fellatio and various S&M themes.[10]

Morishita has won acclaim for her lesbian-themed videos including the December 2002 title for Dogma, Mourning Dress Sisters, Close Relative Lesbian. In this fictional melodrama about two sisters experimenting with lesbian sex after the death of their mother, one reviewer comments that the performances are carried off with such conviction that the scenes become love scenes rather than sex scenes.[11] She also co-starred in a June 2003 production by KMP entitled Forest in Nude. Directed by TOHJIRO, a reviewer call this a "soft, bittersweet story of two friends who remember the days of their youth and the sexual experiences they had".[12] In December 2005 she and director TOHJIRO returned to make peace at their old studio SOD with Stripper, a lesbian love story with SOD star Nana Natsume.[13]

Her popularity as an actress continued at Dogma, in 2003 the major Japanese video distributor DMM ranked her No. 4 in its list of the 100 top actresses by sales.[14] She made the top 10 again in 2004, being ranked No. 9.[15] She is known as "the goddess of Dogma"[16] Morishita also received one of the Channel Actress Performance Awards at the 2005 Adult Broadcasting Awards for the 2004 broadcast season on the Non Stop channel.[17][18]

She made her first interracial video in November 2006, BLACK・KURUMI, admitting according to the Dogma blurb "I am a bit apprehensive but you have to push your limits to keep going further."[19] In a later video Killer Kurumi, released January 2007 and directed by KINGDOM, there is a rather elaborate fictional plot. In prison for murder, she is offered her freedom in exchange for working for "the company". This consists of seducing targets and then executing them after sex - until she falls in love with one of her targets.[20] She made only a few other original videos for Dogma in 2007 and 2008 and she announced her retirement in her blog in May 2009.[21][22]

When the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers in 2012 to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan, Morishita was voted in at number 64.[23]

After AV retirement

Morishita has kept a detailed blog of her life and activities since February 2003,[24] but her literary activities have extended beyond blogging. In March 2007, she published a diary-like account of her life called Subete wa 'hadaka ni naru' kara hajimatte (すべては「裸になる」から始まって). In the book she describes her longing for family love and her loneliness which led her into AV work.[25] She says she intended the book to be read by women and was "a bit embarrassed" that men would also read it.[26] The book was made into a movie of the same name in 2012 with Morishita collaborating with director-writer Saku Nakamachi on the screenplay.[27] The R-18 movie, starring former AKB48 singer Risa Narita as Morishita, was released in Japan in February 2012.[28][29]

Morishita published a second book concerning life in the AV industry in 2011 titled Rafu - in English "Nude Woman" (らふ). Since her first book involved only her views, she wanted to broaden the perspective by interviewing other AV actresses about their experiences and lives. The eight actresses included Elly Akira and Maria Ozawa.[27][30]

She has also published fiction, the story Dahlia (ダリア) in Vol. 5 of the literary magazine Esora (エソラ) in August 2008[31] and a novel, Ryuuka Suigin (硫化水銀), in the February 2008 issue of the literary monthly Contemporary Fiction (小説現代),[32] which was also published in digital form in October 2008.[33] In 2012, she wrote the screenplay for the young Japanese woman director Chihiro Amano's film Koi wa parēdo no yō ni (恋はパレードのように).[34]

Morishita made her first mainstream movie in April 2011, starring in director Yu Irie's Ringing in Their Ears (劇場版 神聖かまってちゃん／ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ Gekijouban Shinsei kamatte-chan: Rokkun rōru wa nari tomaranai), a drama about lives being changed by a rock group's upcoming concert.[2][27] In December 2012, Morishita starred in the romantic fantasy Love Me for Hundreds of Years (死んでもいいの 百年恋して Shindemoiino hyakunen koi shite) directed by Toshirō Enomoto and written by Shinji Imaoka. Her co-star in the film was another former AV actress, Sasa Handa.[35]

Filmography

Adult videos (AV)

Release date[36] Video title Company Director Notes
1998-09-18 Ubu (Simple)
うぶ 森下くるみ		 SOD Ubu
UBU-001		 TOHJIRO Debut
1998-10-16 Piku Piku Shichau
ぴくぴくしちゃう		 SOD
CBD-002		 TOHJIRO
1998-11-20 Sailor Mura Mura, Bloomer Puri Puri
セーラーむらむら、ブルマーぷるぷる		 SOD
CBD-003		 TOHJIRO
1999-01-08 Assault
暴行		 SOD
CBD-004		 TOHJIRO
1999-02-05 Azure Forest
瑠璃色の森		 SOD
CBD-005		 TOHJIRO
1999-03-05 Sex Around the Clock
四六時中SEX		 SOD
CBD-006		 TOHJIRO
1999-04-09 Nurse Hunting: Female Body Laboratory
女体実験室 ナース狩り		 SOD
SDDL-010		 TOHJIRO
1999-05-14 Lost Anal Virgin
喪失 ［アナルウ゛ァージン］		 SOD
SDDL-013		 TOHJIRO
1999-09-30 Higi Denju
喪失 ［秘技伝授］		 SOD
SDDL-051		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Yuri Komuro
2000-01-20 Kurumi's Fan Gratitude Day
森下くるみのファン感謝デー		 SOD
SDDL-070		 Chie Sugawara
2000-02-05 Bishoujo Kumikyoku Ingo
美少女組曲淫語		 SOD
SDDL-077		 Bunchou Yoshino
2000-03-05 Forbidden Private Garden - Kurumi Lesbian Hell
禁断の花園～くるみレズ地獄～		 SOD
SDDL-085		 Noboru Iguchi Lesbian
With Mariko Kawana & Mei Sawaga
2000-09-05 Fuckin' On
森下くるみの音 Fuckin'on		 SOD
SDDL-092
2001-02-07 Omote Kurumi, Ura Kurumi
表くるみ 裏くるみ		 SOD Hamlet
SDDM-007		 TOHJIRO Gravure (non-sex), filmed in Saipan
2001-06-07 Innocent Desire
青い性欲		 Dogma
DDT-001		 TOHJIRO
2001-11-20 Kurumi's 2nd Fan Gratitude Day
第2回森下くるみのファン感謝デー		 SOD
SDDH-013		 TOHJIRO
2002-01-10 Private
ﾌﾟﾗｲﾍﾞｰﾄ		 SOD
ANZ-003		 Tatsuya Aoki
2002-04-06 Roommate
ルームメイト		 Dogma
DDT-021		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Ai Nagase
2002-05-06 Semen Teacher
ザーメン女教師		 Dogma
DDT-026		 TOHJIRO
2002-06-06 Classmate, Best Friend
同級生BEST FRIEND		 Dogma
DDT-029		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Shinobu Kasagi
2002-07-05 Kurumi Morishita History Vol. 1 (1998.9-1999.3)
森下くるみヒストリー VOL.1		 SOD
SDDL-162		 Compilation
2002-07-19 Kurumi Morishita History Vol. 2 (1999.4-1999.12)
森下くるみヒストリー VOL.2		 SOD
SDDL-168		 Compilation
2002-08-04 Kurumi Morishita History Vol. 3 (2000.1-2000.12)
森下くるみヒストリー VOL.3		 SOD
SDDL-174		 Compilation
2002-08-10 Young Sister, the Masochist Girl
妹 M少女		 Dogma
DDT-037		 TOHJIRO
2002-08-17 Kurumi Morishita History Vol. 4 (2001.1-2001.11)
森下くるみヒストリー VOL.4		 SOD
SDDL-179		 Compilation
2002-09-10 Object Stalker, Rape Slave (Beautiful Slave)
主観ストーカー レイプ奴隷		 Dogma
DDT-043		 TOHJIRO
2002-11-10 Hammett San
ハメットさん		 Dogma
DDT-050		 TOHJIRO With Yukari Sakurada
2002-12-10 Mourning Dress Sisters, Close Relative Lesbian
喪服の姉妹 近親レズビアン		 Dogma
DDT-052		 TOHJIRO Lesbian
Co-starring Sayaka Tsutsumi
2003-02-10 Bitch Hour, The Ultimate Slut Confrontation
悪女の時間 究極の痴女対決		 Dogma
DDT-058		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Ran Asakawa
2003-03-10 Sperm Lesbian 2003
スペレズ2003		 Dogma
DDT-059		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Fuka Sakurai
2003-05-10 Beautiful Slut's Kiss and Sex Special
美しい痴女の接吻とセックス		 Dogma
DDN-039		 Hitoshi Nimura
2003-06-27 Forest in Nude
ミリオンスペシャル　ヌードの森　〜メモワール　レズビアン〜		 KMP Million
MILV-081		 TOHJIRO Lesbian
Co-starring Nao Oikawa
2003-07-10 Penis Venus
男根少女 森下くるみ 森下くるみは、ペニスが生えた夢をみるか？		 Dogma
DDN-043		 Hitoshi Nimura
2003-10-10 Confinement Chair Trance
拘束椅子トランス		 Dogma
DDT-072		 TOHJIRO
2004-04-15 Change
チェンジ 森下くるみ・桜井風		 Dogma
DDT-086		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Fuuka Sakurai
2004-05-15 Onanii Navigator
コスプレくるみのオナニー ナビゲーター 森下くるみ		 Dogma
DDT-089		 TOHJIRO
2004-07-10 Lesbian Confinement Chair
拘束椅子レズビアン 森下くるみ 三上翔子		 Dogma
DDT-093		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Shoko Mikami
2004-09-10 Tokyo Maso Lady Story
東京Ｍ女ストーリー		 Dogma
DDT-097		 TOHJIRO
2004-12-10 Normal Sex
コスプレくるみの普通のSEX4連発		 Dogma
DDT-106		 TOHJIRO
2005-01-10 Kurumi Morishita's Love and Lust
森下くるみの恋と性欲		 Dogma
DDN-088		 Hitoshi Nimura
2005-04-15 Inside a Treasure
蔵の中		 Moodyz Killer
MDED-383		 TOHJIRO Co-starring An Nanba
2005-06-19 Endless Fucker 2005
エンドレス ファッカー2005 森下くるみ		 Dogma
DDT-122		 TOHJIRO
2005-12-04 Stripper
ストリッパー		 SOD
SDDM-727		 TOHJIRO Co-starring Nana Natsume with Sakura Sakurada, Maki Tomoda & Ami Nishimura
2006-01-19 Kurumi's Blog
くるみのブログ 森下くるみ		 Dogma
ODD-006		 Company Matsuo
2006-06-19 Rope Lesbian Triangle
縄・トライアングル レズビアン		 Dogma
COT-004		 TOHJIRO Lesbian
With Mayura Hoshitsuki & Shuri Himesaki
2006-11-19 BLACK・KURUMI
ブラック・くるみ 森下くるみ		 Dogma
DDT-152		 TOHJIRO Inter-racial
2007-01-19 Killer Kurumi
KILLER KURUMI～キラーくるみ　森下くるみ		 Dogma
DKD-001		 KINGDOM
2007-07-19 Body Jack
BodyJack ボディージャック 森下くるみ		 Dogma
DWD-002		 K*WEST
2007-10-15 The Human Toilet Teacher
肉便器先生 森下くるみ		 Dogma
DDB-052		 Be-Bop Minoru
2008-01-15 Why Pussy Falls in Love With Pussy
マンコがマンコに恋をする理由 森下くるみ×松野ゆい 		Dogma
DDN-167		 Hitoshi Nimura Lesbian
Co-starring Yui Matsuno

Theatrical films

Photo books

Non-fiction

References

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  2. 1 2 劇場版 神聖かまってちゃん ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ (in Japanese). MovieWalker. Retrieved 2013-08-05. External link in |publisher= (help)
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