Tura Satana

Birthday: 10 July 1938, Hokkaido, Japan

Birth Name: Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi

Height: 170 cm

Tura Satana started exotic dancing when she was only 13 years old. She integrated acrobatics, humor, and sensual beauty to her dancing art form. As a dancer, she started doing guest appearances in films such as Our Man Flint (1966) and Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) and made several films with low-budget auteur Ted V. Mikels. Her skills as a martial artist landed her small roles in TV shows such as Hawaiian Eye (1959), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966), The Greatest Show on Earth (1963) and Burke's Law (1963). Show less «

[asked what she feels is "the most important secret of all"] I've always told Ted [director Ted V. M...Show more »

[asked what she feels is "the most important secret of all"] I've always told Ted [director Ted V. Mikels]) that you can't let anything get you down. Look at the positive side. Don't sweat the small stuff. Keep the negative side buried. I come and go as I please, so I can't get in trouble. Show less «

I took a lot of my anger that had been stored inside of me for many years and let it loose. I helped...Show more »

I took a lot of my anger that had been stored inside of me for many years and let it loose. I helped to create the character Varla [in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)] and helped to make her someone that many women would love to be like. Show less «

When I was dancing burlesque was an art--classy and elegant and requiring talent. I got out of it wh...Show more »

When I was dancing burlesque was an art--classy and elegant and requiring talent. I got out of it when it started to become raunchy and lost the art. Now they call it nude dancing, but it's plain old pornography as far as I'm concerned. They do things on stage that I wouldn't have even thought of doing. Show less «

I started out as an interpretive dancer, but I was offered more money if I took my clothes off, so I...Show more »

I started out as an interpretive dancer, but I was offered more money if I took my clothes off, so I did. I started dancing at the age of 13 years old. I became a professional dancer at the age of 15 years old. If the owners of the clubs I had worked in ever knew that I was only 1, I think that they would have had a heart attack. Show less «

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