--- name: "Tura Satana" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tura-satana" fi1m_id: "tura-satana" imdb_id: "nm0766100" tmdb_id: 4592 wikidata_id: "Q260869" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 July 1938" died: "4 February 2011" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T15:54:53.582141+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Tura Satana ## Identity Tura Satana - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tura-satana - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tura-satana - **IMDb ID:** nm0766100 - **TMDB ID:** 4592 - **Wikidata ID:** Q260869 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tura_Satana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4592 Actor. Born 10 July 1938 in Hokkaido, Japan. Died 4 February 2011. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 July 1938, Hokkaido, Japan - **Died:** 4 February 2011 - **Also known as:** Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, Miss Japan Beautiful - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tura_Satana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4592 ## Biography Tura Satana was a Japanese-American actress and exotic dancer. Born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi on 10 July 1938 in Hokkaido, Japan, she moved with her family to the United States and spent time in the Manzanar internment camp during the Second World War before growing up in Chicago. She appeared in a small role in *Irma la Douce* (1963) and guest roles in television series including *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964). Satana is best known for playing Varla in the 1965 film *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!*. Her other film credits include *Our Man Flint* (1966) and *The Astro-Zombies* (1968), and she voiced the character Varla in *The Haunted World of El Superbeasto* (2009). She died on 4 February 2011 in Reno, Nevada. *Sources: latimes.com, en.wikipedia.org, variety.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), Fi1m 75, as Varla — [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md) ## Complete filmography (18) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Famous T&A 2* (2022), as Varla (archive footage) (uncredited) - *Astro-Zombies M3: Cloned* (2010), as Malvina - *The Haunted World of El Superbeasto* (2009), as Varla (voice) - *Sugar Boxx* (2009), as Judge #1 - *Bump & Grind: The Making of a Burlesque Diva* (2008), series, Actor - *Phone Sex* (2006), as Caller - *Mark of the Astro-Zombies* (2004), as Malvira Satana - *Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation* (2004), Actor - *Cleavage* (2002), Actor - *The Doll Squad* (1973), as Lavelle Sumara - *The Astro-Zombies* (1968), as Satana - *The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.* (1966), series, as Rabbit - *Our Man Flint* (1966), as Stripper (uncredited) - *Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!* (1965), as Varla — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/faster-pussycat-kill-kill.md) - *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964), series, as Tomo - *Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?* (1963), as Stripper(uncredited) - *Burke's Law* (1963), series, as Peach Petal - *Irma la Douce* (1963), as Suzette Wong ## Gallery - ![Tura Santana at Horrobles Store in Berwyn, IL, USA, October 31, 2008. Photo by Adam Bielawski](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-4cecc13a333c.jpg) Tura Santana at Horrobles Store in Berwyn, IL, USA, October 31, 2008. Photo by Adam Bielawski — PhotobraAdam Bielawski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Tura-Satana_2008-10-31_photoby_Adam-Bielawski.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) promotional photo.From left to right: Lori Williams, Haji, Tura Satana.](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-b385d1c006d3.jpg) Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) promotional photo.From left to right: Lori Williams, Haji, Tura Satana. — Russ Meyer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Faster%2C_Pussycat%21_Kill%21_Kill%21_%28promo_photo%2C_1965%29_-_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Tura Satana](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-7a7c0627a160.jpg) Tura Satana — WolfgangRieger, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Tura_Satana_Detail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Tura Satana](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-fb6d1c875c16.jpg) Tura Satana — Image via TMDB - ![Tura Satana](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-6c0a732e7d41.jpg) Tura Satana — Image via TMDB - ![Tura Satana](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-2ad27310b5a9.jpg) Tura Satana — Image via TMDB - ![Tura Satana](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-22538eb92d9e.jpg) Tura Satana — Image via TMDB - ![Tura Satana](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-5501bd8b7e96.jpg) Tura Satana — Image via TMDB - ![Tura Satana](https://film.one/media/person/3911670/gallery-8a1eebd59e18.jpg) Tura Satana — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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