Kumi Taguchi (actress)

Kumi Taguchi
Born	Japan
Occupation	Actress

Kumi Taguchi (田口久美^?, Taguchi Kumi) is a Japanese actress of mixed ancestry who is best known for her roles in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series in the 1970s.

Taguchi, half Japanese and half American, was scouted by the film studio Toei while working in a beauty parlour, and soon afterwards appeared in a small part in Toei's 1975 film Wolf Guy: Burning Wolf Man directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi. That same year also marked her first starring role in Tokyo Emmanuelle for Nikkatsu where according to critic Jasper Sharp, her "figure and smouldering dark looks ... could be readily appreciated by viewers both in and outside Japan". There is a reference to Taguchi and the film in Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta 2003 novel The Dancer and the Thief where the lead character refers to a movie poster and remarks "A film with Kumi Taguchi, Mitsuyaso Mainu and Katsunori Hirose can't be all bad." She also starred in the film's sequel released by Nikkatsu in November 1975, Tokyo Emmanuelle: Private Instruction (東京エマニエル夫人　個人教授^?, Tōkyō emenueru fujin: kojin kyōju) directed by Katsuhiko Fujii.

At the end of 1975, Taguchi starred in another Japanese film which took its inspiration from a foreign sex movie, Deep Throat in Tokyo, directed by Kan Mukai and released by Toei. In early 1976, she joined fellow mixed-race performer Runa Takamura in director Masaru Konuma's Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession for Nikkatsu. Later in 1976 she starred in two other Roman Pornos: Shōgorō Nishimura's A Call Girl's Testimony: Exposure and Katsuhiko Fujii's International Stewardess: Erotic Flight.

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