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Even though she checked “no” for “shoots nudes” at her Model Mayhem page, Korean-American actress Lena Young (aka Lena Hwang) sure made an exception for her role as the ditzy “Bibi” in this year’s comedy/horror The Coed and the Zombie Stoner ….or perhaps she was referring to only still photography.

Above (at 1:34) we see Bibi/Lena and company streaking through their college campus, unaware that a good portion of the student body have become zombies. However, the girls soon find out what it takes to sedate and subdue the flesh-eaters and make their way to safety.

Another notable Asian lady in the cast, albeit in a much smaller and fully-clothed role, is veteran B-movie actress Christine Nguyen (first featured at the old site here and then shortly thereafter here), who plays the university librarian.

I wouldn’t put The Coed and the Zombie Stoner at the top of my “to watch” list for Halloween horror, as it leans way more toward comedy than it does horror, and lame sophomoric comedy at that, but due to its gratuitous nudity and Jamie Noel as a wonderfully foul-mouthed sorority president named Bambi, it’s worth a look.

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Serial killer Jason Voorhees has never been a discriminating slayer, but to date, his only Asian female victim has been Eva Watanabe (played by a then-unknown 21-year-old Kelly Hu, first featured at the old site here) in 1989′s Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. As you can see from the above scene, Eva’s death sure wasn’t merciful, but at least it was “splatter-free.”

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Even though she was never much of a singer, top Korean actress Choi Jin-sil made quite a few appearances on the MBC show Saturday Night Music. Above is a then-24-year-old Miss Choi singing “For Our Precious Love” during an April 1993 broadcast of the show.

Exactly one week ago marked the 6th anniversary of her suicide by hanging. Her brother took his own life in March of 2010 and her ex-husband in January of 2013, both in the same manner.

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The above 1981 TV commercial for L’eggs Sheer Elegance pantyhose (back when they came in the plastic “eggs”) features little-known actress and model, Helen Selby. Besides doing commercials for L’eggs (the one that aired the year after this one would probably be deemed even more racist by today’s media standards) and a few other products, she appeared in a 1988 episode of Cosby entitled “Bookworm” and then seems to have just disappeared from the public eye. She now resides in the “Whatever Happened to..? file.

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Many pundits say that US television’s first interracial kiss was between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura (William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols) in a 1968 episode of Star Trek. Actually, that isn’t true because Lucy and Ricky Ricardo (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez) kissed many times on screen in I Love Lucy over a decade earlier, but I digress. Above is US television’s first interracial lesbian kiss, between Ling Woo and Ally McBeal (Lucy Liu and Calista Flockhart), in an episode of Ally McBeal entitled “Buried Pleasures,” which aired in November of 1999. It didn’t suck.

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Even though she’s seemed to have disappeared from the public eye over a decade ago and now resides in the “Whatever Happened to..” file (as this post at the old site covers), 90s V-Cinema queen Chieko Shiratori is still well-known and remembered by fans of the genre.

Above is a then-23-year-old Cheiko as Detective Mika Hino working up a sweat in 1998′s Tokyo Blue: Case 1, which was the first of the three “Metropolitan Police Branch 82″ films. Also in 1998, which seems to have been her banner year, Miss Shiratori was the 7th of the 10 actresses (covered here at the old site) to step into the role of Special Undercover Agent Rei in Zero Woman: Dangerous Game.

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The above scene from the 1998 black comedy Very Bad Things features a then-26-year old Kobe Tai as exotic dancer Tina, providing the entertainment for a group of five horny men (led by Christian Slater in one of his best performances) at a bachelor party in their Las Vegas hotel room. When one of the group decides to take Tina for a private “ride” in the bathroom and gets a little overzealous and inadvertently makes her a wall decoration, that’s the beginning of the very bad things that happen for the quintet. Although the above scene is the only one that features Kobe, this movie is definitely one worth seeing, especially if dark humor is your thing.

As far as Kobe; she retired from porn in 2003 but, according to a Tweet by her fellow Asian hardcore colleague Lily Thai, last February, signed with Lily’s manager and is now doing “bookings” with her.

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V-cinema queen Kei Mizutani‘s movie debut as Keiko Nakadai in the 1995 adult comedy Weather Woman, was arguably her signature role. Above we see Kei as Keiko, making her first appearance as the new weather woman at a Tokyo news station. After she raises her skirt to illustrate the depth of a recent snowfall, thus exposing her panties on the air (and bringing back an old memory for her former high school classmate viewing), Keiko becomes an overnight sensation.

As for the now 40-year-old Kei, after Weather Woman, she continued acting throughout the rest of the 90′s but passed on reprising her role as Keiko in the 1996 sequel, Weather Woman Returns. (The role went to Misa Aika, who now resides in the “Whatever Happened to..?” file.) Kei did make an appearance at the 2000 San Diego Comic Con, where Weather Woman made its US premiere, but since then, she pretty much retired from acting, save for a rare occasional part, such as her small role in 2010′s Flower and Snake 3.

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The third entry in the Zero Woman franchise, 1995′s Zero Woman: Final Mission, had actress and gravure idol Naoko Iijima as Special Undercover Agent Rei, in what was definitely not her final mission. Rei went on to tackle seven more assignments in the forms of just as many different actresses. You can see the full chronological rundown of all the Zero Woman films in the franchise and actresses who played Rei, in this piece at the old site.

As for the now-46-year-old Miss Iijima; she continued with her acting career, going from 90s V-cinema productions to television. She married a company CEO in late 2012 and her latest role was in a Japanese sitcom entitled Last Cinderella, which ended its run just last year.

 

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Based on the 1995 novel by Kim Jae-sik and shot in Vancouver, Canada by a Korean production company, the 1998 film A Night On the Water was Playboy model Sunghi Lee’s first and only starring film role. The story flashes back to follow the tale told by a recently canned hotshot investment trader who meets a hooker named Phoebe (Sunghi), who believes she’s a killer whale stuck in that Playboy model’s body.

Despite the film being considered a turkey by most B-movie pundits, the above steamy striptease Sunghi’s Phoebe character gives shortly after the pair meet, makes Melanie Griffith’s dance as “Holly” in 1984′s Body Double, seem lukewarm, at best. Sunghi’s sexy performance, combined with some awesomely bad acting from the supporting cast, is testament to why yours truly believes A Night On the Water is a movie worthy of cult status.

As many readers of this site already know, Sunghi, now 44, shut down her website in 2011 and retired from modeling and acting. She now lives a domestic life in Southern California. For those interested, the song she’s grooving to here is “Keep Me In Your Mind,” released in 1996 by Bulgarian singer Carolina, who now resides in the “Whatever Happened to..?” file.

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