Banmei Takahashi (高橋伴明, Takahashi Banmei) (or Tomoaki
Takahashi) 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. He joined pink
film pioneer KÅ ji 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.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. 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. With the success of this
film, Takahashi dissolved Takahashi Productions to focus on mainstream
filmmaking. Takahashi's 1994 film Ai no Shinsekai, inspired by
photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's work, is significant as the first
Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.
Takahashi) 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. He joined pink
film pioneer KÅ ji 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.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. 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. With the success of this
film, Takahashi dissolved Takahashi Productions to focus on mainstream
filmmaking. Takahashi's 1994 film Ai no Shinsekai, inspired by
photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's work, is significant as the first
Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.
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