Miki Sugimoto is almost inseparable from fellow 1970s Toei film star
Reiko Ike. Both stared in numerous "sukeban"
films throughout the 1970s and helped build a generation of "Toei
porn".
A fashion model and star of "Go Go Girl in All Night Fuji" (a Japanese
TV program), she made her film debut in "Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha"
(
Onsen mimizu geisha (1971))
and was later known for her film "Zero Woman - Red Handcuffs"
(
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)),
one of the most over-the-top Japanese crime films of the 1970s. She
left the film industry in 1978 to marry a former
classmate-turned-businessman and become a nursery school teacher.