Mari Somei
Acting
Biography
Mari Somei is a Japanese actress, who mysteriously disappeared from the film industry in 1988 after portraying a lethal mermaid in her last movie.
Born: October 16, 1963
Place of Birth: Japan
Known For
Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole
An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies.
Flower and Snake 2: Sketch of Hell
The daughter of a wealthy family rebels when her father remarries and she becomes a leader of a girl gang. She hatches a plot to use her stepmother to get a large sum of money by pretending to be kidnapped. But the tables are turned when gangsters intervene and capture them both. They are subjected to various humiliations and sexual perversions.
Kôkô kyôshi: Shisshin!
A female teacher, Kumi Yamamoto, was raped by a man, Yuichi Kobayashi ,who failed to commit suicide after the crime. Kumi knows that Yuichi is driving a taxi in the city. She is about to collect the moral debt.
Za shōgeki
A young office lady is lured to the countrside and sadistically tortured by her supposed fiancé and his girlfriend. Left for dead she is taken in by a groom from a nearby horse farm. The country life eases her trauma until she witnesses the erotically charged sight of horses being bred.
Rabu gēmu: Wa owaranai
A young woman who runs a bar from a small truck gets in trouble with some hapless yakuza when her drunk boyfriend gets into a fight with them.
Baajin nante kowakunai
A gang of street punks attack a female radio DJ in a subway because she didn’t play their requested song. A man comes to her rescue and they run away together. She doesn’t know that he was the one who killed her older sister in a motorcycle accident.
Guinea Pig's Greatest Cuts
A 'best of' compilation comprised of V&R Planning's 73-minute Ginî piggu: Zansatsu supesharu and 19 minutes of scenes from Japan Home Video's Ginî piggu: Manhôru no naka no ningyo and The guinea pig 2: Nôtoru Damu no andoroido.
Filmography
as The Mermaid
as Marika Tsubaki
as Man's mistress
as Akemi(朱実)
as Female Debt Collector
as Eri