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Tura Satana (July 10, 1938〔Some sources give her birth year as 1935, i.e. Dave Itzkoff, ("Tura Satana, Cult Actress, Is Dead" ), ''New York Times'', February 5, 2011; accessed January 8, 2014.〕 – February 4, 2011) was an American actress and former exotic dancer. From 13 film and television credits, some of her work includes the exploitation film ''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'' (1965), and the science fiction horror film ''The Astro-Zombies'' (1968). ==Early life== Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a silent movie actor of Japanese and Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of American Indian (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background.〔 After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, she and her family moved to Chicago. Walking home from school just before her 10th birthday, she was reportedly gang raped by five men.〔 According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted, and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off. She tells how this prompted her to learn martial arts, such as aikido and karate. Over the next 15 years, she tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge.〔McDonough pg. 159〕 "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them."〔 Around this time, she formed a gang, "the Angeles", with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her neighborhood. In an interview with ''Psychotronic Video'', she said, "We had leather motorcycle jackets, jeans and boots...and we kicked butt." Because of frequent delinquency, she was sent to reform school.〔 When she was 13, her parents arranged her marriage to 17-year-old John Satana in Hernando, Mississippi, which lasted nine months.〔 Satana moved to Los Angeles and by 15, using fake identification to hide the fact she was a minor, began burlesque dancing. She was hired to perform at the Trocadero nightclub on the Sunset Strip, and became a photographic model for, among others, silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, whose photos of her appear in ''Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3-D''.〔 She returned to Chicago to live with her parents and started dancing at the Club Rendevouz in Calumet City, Illinois, where she was known as Galatea, "the Statue that Came to Life." She was offered a raise to become a stripper. After singer Elvis Presley saw her perform at Chicago's Follies Theater, the two began a romantic relationship that some reports say ended in a marriage proposal she declined.〔 She eventually became a successful exotic dancer, traveling from city to city. She credited Lloyd with giving her the confidence to pursue a career in show business: "I saw myself as an ugly child. Mr. Lloyd said, 'You have such a symmetrical face. The camera loves your face...You should be seen.'"〔McDonough, pp 160-61〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tura Satana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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