Kikuchi was born in
Nagoya,
Aichi Prefecture, Japan on April 5, 1965. She started as a
fuzoku (sex industry) girl in hotels and
soaplands and also made appearances in several underground pornographic films. Her official AV debut was at age twenty in the video
Beautiful D-Cup Girl, Sister L, released in September 1985 by
CineMagic. Kikuchi has been called the first adult video performer whose career was built around her exceptionally large breasts for that time in Japan. Kikuchi's pink film debut was with
Million Film in their in 1986. In August of the same year, she starred in a
pink film for Shintoho Eiga, . This film has Kikuchi playing "Eri", a nude model and AV actress who becomes romantically involved with her manager. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kikuchi also appeared in a number of photobooks, mostly with the
BDSM theme of
rope bondage. In 2003, she was working as a lecturer/demonstrator at the AV Cultures School, a school started by male AV actor, Shinji Kubo, to train future AV directors. By December 2004 Kikuchi, aged 39, had returned to AV with a series of videos for
Madonna, a studio specializing in "mature" actresses. She also performed in
Mourning Dress Slave / Eri Kikuchi in July 2005 for
CineMagic, the AV company she had made her début with 20 years previously. As of 2013, Eri Kikuchi was billed at the
Nagoya fashion health Nishiki VIP Toshima. ==Partial videography==