Kichitaro Negishi (æ ¹å²¸å ‰å¤ªéƒŽ, Negishi KichitarÅ ) is a Japanese
film director. Although his films are admired by critics in Japan for
their intelligence, Negishi has received little international
recognition for his work. He has not been credited with a distinctive
style but he has been called a subtle director who often elicits
strong performances from his actors. He won the award for Best
Director at the 3rd Yokohama Film Festival for Enrai and Crazy
Fruit.Negishi graduated from Waseda University in the Faculty of
Theatre and Film Arts, and as with several other filmmakers of his
generation, began his career directing Roman porno films for the
Nikkatsu studio. He worked as Assistant Director on Toshiya Fujita's
March 1978 Dangerous Liaisons (å ±é™ºã ªé–¢ä¿‚, Kiken na kankei),
based on the French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, but his debut as a
director for Nikkatsu was with the June 1978 erotic thriller From
Orion's Testimony: Formula For Murder. The young Negishi's success
with this film was a factor in Nikkatsu's decision to focus more on
projects emphasizing story.After a disappointing second feature High
School Girl, Negishi returned to form with the box office hit Wet
Weekend, which won the 9th Best Film award at the 1979 Yokohama Film
Festival. Negishi's next film for Nikkatsu, Rape Ceremony was a tale
of disaffected youth concerning a feud between former motorcycle gang
members and the high school boys who once idolized them and now accuse
them of selling out to the system. In the June 1980 "Never in the
Morning" Negishi uses the office romance sex-farce plot to poke fun at
contemporary morality and sexual double standards.Negishi began 1981
with Female Teacher: Dirty After School, the third entry in the 8
episode "Female Teacher" series from Nikkatsu, all based loosely on
Noboru Tanaka's 1973 hit film for Nikkatsu, Female Teacher: Private
Life. Negishi's film is considered to be one of the best in the series
and he was by this time one of Nikkatsu's top directors. His second
film in 1981, Crazy Fruit, another story of alienated youth, was based
on a 1956 Nikkatsu film Crazed Fruit, made before the studio's Roman
porno period.
film director. Although his films are admired by critics in Japan for
their intelligence, Negishi has received little international
recognition for his work. He has not been credited with a distinctive
style but he has been called a subtle director who often elicits
strong performances from his actors. He won the award for Best
Director at the 3rd Yokohama Film Festival for Enrai and Crazy
Fruit.Negishi graduated from Waseda University in the Faculty of
Theatre and Film Arts, and as with several other filmmakers of his
generation, began his career directing Roman porno films for the
Nikkatsu studio. He worked as Assistant Director on Toshiya Fujita's
March 1978 Dangerous Liaisons (å ±é™ºã ªé–¢ä¿‚, Kiken na kankei),
based on the French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, but his debut as a
director for Nikkatsu was with the June 1978 erotic thriller From
Orion's Testimony: Formula For Murder. The young Negishi's success
with this film was a factor in Nikkatsu's decision to focus more on
projects emphasizing story.After a disappointing second feature High
School Girl, Negishi returned to form with the box office hit Wet
Weekend, which won the 9th Best Film award at the 1979 Yokohama Film
Festival. Negishi's next film for Nikkatsu, Rape Ceremony was a tale
of disaffected youth concerning a feud between former motorcycle gang
members and the high school boys who once idolized them and now accuse
them of selling out to the system. In the June 1980 "Never in the
Morning" Negishi uses the office romance sex-farce plot to poke fun at
contemporary morality and sexual double standards.Negishi began 1981
with Female Teacher: Dirty After School, the third entry in the 8
episode "Female Teacher" series from Nikkatsu, all based loosely on
Noboru Tanaka's 1973 hit film for Nikkatsu, Female Teacher: Private
Life. Negishi's film is considered to be one of the best in the series
and he was by this time one of Nikkatsu's top directors. His second
film in 1981, Crazy Fruit, another story of alienated youth, was based
on a 1956 Nikkatsu film Crazed Fruit, made before the studio's Roman
porno period.
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