Miki Sugimoto

January 28, 1953 — Kanagawa, Japan

Miki Sugimoto (杉本美樹, Sugimoto Miki?) is a Japanese actress born on January 28, 1953, in Chigasaki. Miki Sugimoto mainly plays roles in erotic action films featuring delinquents, known in English as Pinky violence. In 1975, the film L'aubergine est farcie (The Eggplant is Stuffed)—a remake by René Vianet of Yukio Noda's film Les Menottes rouges (The Red Handcuffs)—was banned by Michel Guy, Secretary of State for Culture, before it could be screened. Miki Sugimoto appeared in about twenty films between 1971 and 1977.