TOKYO — It’s 11 p.m. and Eiko Koike has just finished a music variety ... so I took up the offer.” Since then, Koike has appeared in numerous magazines and photo albums, movies, TV commercials ...

Eiko Koike is a leggy, lushly upholstered Japanese ... was put together by fashion photographer Kaoru Izima, who has been taking photos of beautiful corpses since 1993. Now 50, the Tokyo native ...

In “The Kiss,” popular Japanese actress Eiko Koike portrays a lonely office worker who marries a man on death row. A woman takes a bath with live eels. Another becomes a death-row bride.

Izima Kaoru, Koike Eiko wears Gianni Versace (424), 2004. C-print under diasec, 71 x 59 in., 180 x 150 cm. Edition 2 of 5. Since 1993, Japanese fashion photographer and artist, Izima Kaoru, has been ...

Izima Kaoru, Koike Eiko wears Gianni Versace, #424, 2004. C-print under diasec, 71 x 59 in., 180 x 150 cm. Edition 2 of 5. Since 1993, Japanese fashion photographer and artist, Izima Kaoru, has been ...