Murasaki&#039;s evil stepmother.  She abused Murasaki&#039;s real mother.

He's only a teenager, but Kurenai Shinkurou is already both a master of an arcane martial art and an experienced professional mediator with a long track record of resolving disputes. Not bad for someone who's just sixteen and still in school, but everyone has their limits and Kurenai may have met his when his boss and role model, Benika, responds to his request for a more challenging assignment by giving him the task of protecting young Murasaki Kuhoin. Never mind that she's only seven, the fact that the people Kurenai's supposed to protect her from are her own very rich and extremely powerful family is guaranteed to take this job into the danger zone. Now the heat is on and Kurenai's scrambling to put out as many fires as he can, even as the secrets surrounding his young charge bring everything else to a flashpoint. 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Other roles include Helena in the video game series "Dead or Alive" and Niki in "Dead or Alive Xtreme 1&2".

Kurenai Shinkurou, a 16-year-old dispute mediator, is one day approached by the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family asking him to be her bodyguard.


Kure-nai is about the adventures and misadventures of 16-year-old Kurenai Shinkurou. Shinkurou is an authority in settling disputes between people, and finds his life turned upside down one day when he is assigned as a bodyguard for Kuhouin Murasaki, the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)
 
1. Kure-nai (紅); 2005/12/20 
2. Kure-nai: Guillotine (紅 〜ギロチン〜); 2006/7/25 
3. Kure-nai: Shuuakusai Part 1 (紅 〜醜悪祭〜（上）); 2007/11/22 
4. Kure-nai: Shuuakusai Part 2 (紅 〜醜悪祭〜（下）); 2008/4/25 
5. Kure-nai: Yugamisora no Hime (紅 〜歪空の姫〜); 2014/12/19

Kazuko Kuhouin