Kaoru Adachi (安é "ã ‹ã Šã‚‹, Adachi Kaoru, born January 27, 1956) is
a Japanese film director, producer and editor, and founder of the
Japanese documentary and adult video (AV) studio V&R Planning.Kaoru
Adachi was born Susumu Saegusa(ä¸‰æž ã€€é€², Saegusa Susumu) in Tokyo.
He initially worked in the TV industry mainly as an import agent for
foreign films and is credited by former associate Company Matsuo with
introducing Monty Python to Japan.In April 1986, Adachi founded the
film studio V&R Planning in Tokyo. The V&R stands for "Visual and
Retail". According to Matsuo, Adachi didn't know how to shoot films
but was interested in "weird documentaries", especially those
involving death, so he just "shot documentaries the way he thought
they should be."V&R Planning, under the Mad Video label, distributed
the Japanese versions of the first three videos in the US Faces of
Death series as Janku or Junk. Around 1989, Adachi along with Company
Matsuo and a cameraman traveled to Brazil to film death scenes for
Shin janku ("New Junk"), known in the US as Faces of Death 4, for
which Adachi received co-director credit. Dark Side magazine noted his
involvement with this series in an article "A Death Dealer - Susumu
Saegusa" in issue #124 for December/January 2007. He also did a
further series of death videos called "Death File"(デスファイル)
again under the Mad Video label.
a Japanese film director, producer and editor, and founder of the
Japanese documentary and adult video (AV) studio V&R Planning.Kaoru
Adachi was born Susumu Saegusa(ä¸‰æž ã€€é€², Saegusa Susumu) in Tokyo.
He initially worked in the TV industry mainly as an import agent for
foreign films and is credited by former associate Company Matsuo with
introducing Monty Python to Japan.In April 1986, Adachi founded the
film studio V&R Planning in Tokyo. The V&R stands for "Visual and
Retail". According to Matsuo, Adachi didn't know how to shoot films
but was interested in "weird documentaries", especially those
involving death, so he just "shot documentaries the way he thought
they should be."V&R Planning, under the Mad Video label, distributed
the Japanese versions of the first three videos in the US Faces of
Death series as Janku or Junk. Around 1989, Adachi along with Company
Matsuo and a cameraman traveled to Brazil to film death scenes for
Shin janku ("New Junk"), known in the US as Faces of Death 4, for
which Adachi received co-director credit. Dark Side magazine noted his
involvement with this series in an article "A Death Dealer - Susumu
Saegusa" in issue #124 for December/January 2007. He also did a
further series of death videos called "Death File"(デスファイル)
again under the Mad Video label.
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