:Kyōko Hashimoto

Hashimoto was born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan on February 15, 1964.{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n0082|title=Kyoko Hashimoto 橋本杏子 Profile|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-23}} She entered the adult video (AV) industry as early as 1984 with the video 3 Sisters Live Performance for the Boxland company.{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/?p=mcard&id=8541|title=3 Sisters Live Performance|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-23}} She also performed in a second Boxland video in 1984, Honban gāru anzu, chomechome sarechatta no Hashimoto Kyōko.{{cite web|url=http://www.arzon.jp/item_482735.html|script-title=ja:本番ガール 杏子、チョメチョメされちゃったの 橋本杏子|publisher=arzon.jp|accessdate=2013-10-23|language=Japanese}} Another early work was the 1986 Sexy Video Club 16 for the pioneering AV studio Cosmos Plan.{{cite web|url=http://www.arzon.jp/item_496198.html|script-title=ja:ビデオＳＥＸＹ倶楽部 １６ |publisher=arzon.jp|accessdate=2013-10-23|language=Japanese}}

In the mid to late 1980s she also appeared in a number of hardcore uncensored underground ("urabon") photobooks.{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n0082&mode=books|title=Kyoko Hashimoto 橋本杏子 Books|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-23}}

By late 1985, she was working in pink film, with a role in director Sachi Hamano's {{nihongo|Misshitsuhen Taichōkyō|密室変態調教}} which was released in October 1985 by Million Film.{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1985/di003080.htm|script-title=ja:密室変態調教|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-23|language=Japanese}} Two months later she appeared in the Nikkatsu Roman Porno film Zetsurin gal: Yaruki mun mun directed by Yōjirō Takita.{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv29162/|script-title=ja:絶倫ギャル やる気ムンムン|publisher= MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-25|language=Japanese}} Hashimoto again worked with director Takita in the March 1986 Nikkatsu Roman Porno production Za mania: Kaikan seitai jikken with a screenplay by Shirō Yumeno.{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv29180/|script-title=ja:ザ・マニア 快感生体実験|publisher=MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-25|language=Japanese}} In June 1986, Hashimoto had the starring role in Sexy Battle Girls for Shintōhō Eiga, a takeoff on the mid-1980s television show Sukeban Deka, where she plays a high-school girl who battles an evil headmaster using her special sexual ability, the "Venus Crush".{{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|url=https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis|url-access=registration|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis/page/n426 425]–426}} At the 8th Zoom-Up Film Festival in 1987, Hashimoto won the Best Actress award for her films in 1986.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/24_pinkfes/50th_schedule_new.html|title=PINK FILM CHRONICLE 1962-2012 -午後８時の映画祭|publisher=biglobe.ne.jp|accessdate=2013-10-28|language=Japanese|archive-date=2013-10-30|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131030094720/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/24_pinkfes/50th_schedule_new.html|url-status=dead}}

In another Shintōhō Eiga film, the 1987 Lesbian Harem directed by Tomoaki Hosoyama, Hashimoto played a lesbian who with her lover have decided to commit suicide but are instead enslaved by the queen of a lesbian realm.Weisser, p. 241 In 1989, Hashimoto received further recognition for her pink film performances, garnering a Best Supporting Actress award at the first Pink Grand Prix ceremony for her work in the 1988 Genuine Masturbation: Finger Play and other films.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1988.htm|title=Best Ten of 1988 1988年度ベストテン ＜第1回ピンク大賞＞|accessdate=2010-04-16|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese|archive-date=2012-08-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805233715/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1988.htm|url-status=dead}} Among her other 1988 films was Last Cabaret, the second to last of Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series. The film, about a cabaret forced to close and the owner's daughter, who, depressed over the situation, searches for the club's former hostesses (Hashimoto among them), has been taken as a metaphor for the demise of the studio itself.Weisser, p. 227{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=150440|script-title=ja:ラスト・キャバレー(1988)|publisher=AllCinema|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}

In 1989, Hashimoto performed in two pink film projects for director Masahiro Kasai and Cinema Ark. The first was the supernatural themed Abnormal Excitement: Nao Saejima in October,{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1989/dm002330.htm|script-title=ja:冴島奈緒 異常昂奮|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}} which won Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1989.htm|title=Best Ten of 1989, 2nd Ceremony 1989年度ベストテン ＜第2回ピンク大賞＞|accessdate=2010-04-16|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese|archive-date=2012-08-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805232140/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1989.htm|url-status=dead}} Then she appeared in the November 1989 release Molester's Train: Get On from The Back!,{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1989/dm002690.htm|script-title=ja:痴漢電車 後ろから乗って！|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}} part of the long-running Molester's Train series.Weisser, pp. 276-279

Hashimoto took one of the Best Actress awards for 1991 films at the Pink Grand Prix for her starring role in The Masturbating Lesbians,{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1991.htm|title=Best Ten of 1991, 4th Ceremony 1991年度ベストテン ＜第4回ピンク大賞＞|accessdate=2010-04-16|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese|archive-date=2012-08-06|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120806001750/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1991.htm|url-status=dead}} which was directed by Yutaka Ikejima and distributed by Xces.{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7|page=345}} In the six years from late 1985 to the end of 1991, Hashimoto appeared in at least 90 films, many of them for the Shintōhō Eiga studio.{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0085070.htm|script-title=ja:橋本杏子|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}} This was a period of crisis for the pink film industry largely caused by the advent of adult videos in Japan and Hashimoto was known as "the last pink actress" ({{nihongo2|最後のピンク女優}}), with the meaning that she was likely to be the last successful actress in the genre.{{cite web|url=http://xcity.jp/archives/free/shin-toho/HISTORY/K_HASHIMOTO/index.html|title=File 0012 橋本杏子|publisher=Shintoho Official Website|accessdate=2013-10-28|language=Japanese}}

In November 1992, Hashimoto had a featured role in a mainstream film, the superhero comedy {{nihongo|Daikansho kamen|大感傷仮面}},{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv27434/|script-title=ja:大感傷仮面|publisher=MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}} and in 1995 she had a small role as a reporter in the video (and later film) Weather Woman for director Tomoaki Hosoyama, with whom she had earlier worked in Lesbian Harem.{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv27854/|script-title=ja:お天気お姉さん|publisher= MovieWalker|accessdate=2013-10-29|language=Japanese}}

Hashimoto had retired from the pink film scene but returned in September 2002 when she once again teamed up with director Yutaka Ikejima in his Delivery Health Girl: The Moisture of Silken Skin where she played Akino, a delivery health girl (call girl).{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2002/dz003240.htm|script-title=ja:デリヘル嬢 絹肌のうるおい|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}} In November 2003, she starred in another pink film, Lesbian Mother-in-Law: Son Exchange with Motoko Sasaki.{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2003/ea004140.htm|script-title=ja:義母レズ 息子交換|publisher=Japanese Movie Database|accessdate=2013-10-26|language=Japanese}}Sharp, p. 359

Hashimoto also resumed work in adult videos in 2002 co-starring with Madoka Ozawa and Yumika Hayashi in the Moodyz production Shitamachi Mixed Bathouse Story.{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/?p=mcard&id=5058|title=Shitamachi Mixed Bathouse Story|publisher=Urabon Navigator|accessdate=2013-10-28}} Then from 2009 to 2012, she appeared in five videos for Attackers (including two entries in their "Slave Castle" series), all directed by Shinichi Kawamura.{{cite web|url=http://www.attackers.net/actress/-/detail/=/id=3305/|script-title=ja:橋本杏子 ( はしもときょうこ )|publisher=attackers.net|accessdate=2013-10-28|language=Japanese|archive-date=2013-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226035454/http://www.attackers.net/actress/-/detail/=/id=3305/|url-status=dead}}

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