Konatsu (向夏) is a Japanesepink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Actress" award for her work in this genre in 2005.
Life and career
Konatsu was born in Japan's Nagano Prefecture in 1982.[2][3] After graduating from junior college, she moved to Tokyo where she worked in the beauty industry and did some gravure modeling in 2003.[3] She made her acting debut in the July 2004 V-cinema production Forbidden Fruit (禁断の果実, Kindan no kajitsu) directed by Yuji Tajiri.[3][4]
Konatsu had her film debut in director Mototsugu Watanabe's Beppin kyōshi: toiki no aibu (べっぴん教師 吐息の愛撫) (2004).[2] Her first leading role was later that same year, in Mitsuru Meike's Bitter Sweet.[2][5]
January 14, 2006, the premiere date of Shinji Imaoka's Paid Companionship Story: Girls Who Want to Do It (援助交際物語 したがるオンナたち, Enjo-kōsai monogatari: shitagaru onna-tachi) aka Frog Song, was also Konatsu's birthday. The director and staff presented Konatsu with a surprise birthday cake on stage at the occasion.[6][7] The film was named the best pink release for 2005, and Konatsu was given the award for Best Actress for her performance.[8]
She gave birth to her first child in February 2007; as of 2011, she was working for a "well-known clothing company".[3]
Filmography
Beppin kyōshi: toiki no aibu (べっぴん教師 吐息の愛撫) (September 2004)
