Banmei Takahashi
| Banmei Takahashi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 10, 1949 Nara, Nara, Japan |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Spouse(s) | Keiko Takahashi |
Banmei Takahashi (高橋伴明 Takahashi Banmei) (or Tomoaki Takahashi)[1] is a Japanese film director. Takahashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with Escaped Rapist Criminal. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years.[2] He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979.[2]
Takahashi married Nikkatsu Roman Porno and pink film actress Keiko Sekine who then changed her name to Keiko Takahashi and starred in several of Takahashi's films.[3] Sekine appeared in Takahashi's Tattoo Ari (1982), a mainstream box-office hit which won Takahashi the award for Best Director at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival.[4][5] With the success of this film, Takahashi dissolved Takahashi Productions to focus on mainstream filmmaking.[2] Takahashi's 1994 film New World of Love, inspired by photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's work, is significant as the first Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.[6]
Filmography
- Escaped Rapist Criminal (1972)
- Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976)
- Girl Mistress (1980)
- Wolf (狼 Ōkami) (1982)
- Tattoo Ari (1982)
- New World of Love (1994)
- Zen (2009)
- BOX: The Hakamada Case (2010)
- Hakuji no Hito (2012)
- Akai Tama (2015)
References
- ↑ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 183, 234. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
- 1 2 3 Weisser, p. 234.
- ↑ Weisser, pp. 253, 234.
- ↑ 第４回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８２年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
- ↑ Weisser, p.427.
- ↑ Weisser, pp. 291-292.