Tura Satana was a Japanese American actress, vedette, and exotic dancer who died on February 4, 2011. She was born on July 10, 1938.
The exploitation picture Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) and the science fiction horror movie The Astro-Zombies are only two of the 13 movies and television shows she has appeared in (1968).
Tura Satana early years
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Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Satana, was born in Hokkaido, Japan. Her mother was a circus artist with Native American (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish ancestry, while her father was a Japanese silent film actor of Filipino descent.
Tura and her family relocated to Chicago following the end of World War II and a stay in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California.
Just before turning 10, she was reportedly gang raped by five guys while returning home from school.
Just before turning 10, she was reportedly gang raped by five guys while returning home from school.
Satana claimed that the judge had allegedly been bribed and that her attackers had never been put on trial. She claims that as a result, she started studying aikido and karate.
Satana found each rapist over the course of the following fifteen years and exacted vengeance.
Years later, she admitted, “I made a pledge to myself that I would eventually, somehow get even with all of them.” “Until I told them, they had no idea who I was.”
She started a group called “the Angeles” at about this time with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her area. Satana stated, “We had leather motorcycle jackets, jeans, and boots…and we kicked butt,” in an interview with Psychotronic Video.
She was sent to a reform school as a result of her persistent criminality. Her parents arranged her nine-month marriage to John Satana, then 17, in Hernando, Mississippi, when she was 13 years old.
Tura Satana acting profession
Satana made her acting debut in the cameo role of Suzette Wong, a Parisian prostitute, in the Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine movie Irma la Douce.
The next year, in 1963, she appeared as a dancer in the Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery film Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? Soon after, Satana had guest appearances on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Burke’s Law (1964).
Later, Satana appeared in the 1965 movie Faster, Pussycat! as “Varla” She performed all of her own stunts and battle scenes for the character Kill! Kill!, a very sexual and aggressive girl. [8] Richard Corliss, a renowned film reviewer, praised her performance as “the most honest, possibly the only honest portrayal in the Meyer canon, and without a doubt the terrifying.”
The movie, which was first known as The Leather Girls, is a tribute to female aggression and was based on an idea conceived by Russ Meyer and screenwriter Jack Moran.
At her initial audition, both thought Satana was “absolutely Varla.”
Satana frequently clashed with her teenage co-star Susan Bernard because Bernard’s mother allegedly engaged in disruptive behavior on the set during the film’s on-location shooting in the desert outside of Los Angeles during days when the temperature exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit and below-freezing nights.
Meyer claimed that Satana “very competent She was capable of managing herself. Avoid messing with her! And if you must fuck her, make it count! She could turn on you!”
Tura Satana husband
Elvis Presley reportedly proposed marriage to Satana, but she declined and retained the ring.
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