There are several Reikos in the realm of pinku but we’ve talked about only two—Pulp Intl. favorite Reiko Ike, who we featured a few days ago, and action star Reiko Oshida. Time for some new blood. Above you see a beautiful image of Reiko Ohara, who was also a big star in Japanese filmdom, appearing in dozens of action and comedy flicks beginning in 1965, including Furyo bancho te haccho kuchi haccho, aka Wolves of the City: Blue Soldiers, and Yagyû ichizoku no inbô aka Shogun’s Samurai. She has an unusually large gun here, or perhaps is an unusually small person. We don’t know which. But we know the photo originally appeared in a large art book called 大原麗子メモリーずっと好きでいて, which translates as something like, “Reiko Ohara Memory I’ve Always Liked.” The book was published in 2010, but Ohara was born in 1946, so we’d say the image was originally shot way back around 1970. She died in 2009, so it’s possible the book was published as a tribute, but we aren’t sure about that. We have other images of her and she’s posing with a massive gun in many of those too. Like below, for example. We figure she thought she needed it around at all times for protection from the other Reikos.
