RokurÅ Mochizuki (望月å…郎, Mochizuki RokurÅ ) is a Japanese film
director who has worked in pink film, adult videos and mainstream
cinema. He won the award for Best Director at the 19th Yokohama Film
Festival for Onibi and A Yakuza in Love.Mochizuki was born in 1957 in
the Shinjuku, Tokyo area of Tokyo. He attended Keio University in
Tokyo but dropped out in his freshman year. After a round of
bad-paying jobs, he eventually enrolled to study film at Tokyo's Image
Forum. After graduating in the early 1980s, Mochizuki briefly worked
at the Nikkatsu studio which was exclusively producing its Roman porno
line of films at that time. Nikkatsu's fortunes were in decline,
however, and Mochizuki was soon out of work. Mochizuki had been
encouraged to write scripts by one of his teachers at Image Forum and
in 1983, one of his screenplays was made into the pink film Virgin
Rope Doll by Genji Nakamura for his YÅ« Pro company.He continued
working with Nakamura as a screenwriter and assistant director,
including writing two gay-themed pink films, Beautiful Mystery: The
Legend of Big Horn (a parody of Yukio Mishima's right-wing activities)
and Our Season (a.k.a. Male Season) starring TÅ ru Nakane. He made his
debut as a director in 1985 with two pink films for Million Film, Real
Performance Video: To Strip and Miss Masturbation: My Steamy Private
Life. He also directed his first film for Nikkatsu in 1986, the
melodramatic pink film Love Slave Doll: Make Me Come.However, the pink
film industry was in decline due to the rise of the adult video (AV)
and Mochizuki decided to join the AV market, starting up his own
production company, E-Staff Union (イースタッフユニオン).
With the difficulties of surviving in the Japanese film industry of
the time, Mochizuki went into the AV business primarily to make some
money while directing films and although he expressed some doubts
about his choice he has said that if he "wanted to keep making them
[films], it was either the sexy stuff or nothing." In 1987, Mochizuki
was directing AVs for Alice Japan, a company founded in 1986 as the
adult video arm of Japan Home Video. He started the "Flashback"
(フラッシュムック) series for Alice Japan in August 1987 and
had produced Volume 30 in the series by December 1990 including one
with the 1980s AV Idol Nao Saejima. In April 1990, he directed another
early AV Idol, Yumika Hayashi, in the Alice Japan video The Contrary
Soap Heaven 5 and he remained very active with Alice Japan through
1991.
director who has worked in pink film, adult videos and mainstream
cinema. He won the award for Best Director at the 19th Yokohama Film
Festival for Onibi and A Yakuza in Love.Mochizuki was born in 1957 in
the Shinjuku, Tokyo area of Tokyo. He attended Keio University in
Tokyo but dropped out in his freshman year. After a round of
bad-paying jobs, he eventually enrolled to study film at Tokyo's Image
Forum. After graduating in the early 1980s, Mochizuki briefly worked
at the Nikkatsu studio which was exclusively producing its Roman porno
line of films at that time. Nikkatsu's fortunes were in decline,
however, and Mochizuki was soon out of work. Mochizuki had been
encouraged to write scripts by one of his teachers at Image Forum and
in 1983, one of his screenplays was made into the pink film Virgin
Rope Doll by Genji Nakamura for his YÅ« Pro company.He continued
working with Nakamura as a screenwriter and assistant director,
including writing two gay-themed pink films, Beautiful Mystery: The
Legend of Big Horn (a parody of Yukio Mishima's right-wing activities)
and Our Season (a.k.a. Male Season) starring TÅ ru Nakane. He made his
debut as a director in 1985 with two pink films for Million Film, Real
Performance Video: To Strip and Miss Masturbation: My Steamy Private
Life. He also directed his first film for Nikkatsu in 1986, the
melodramatic pink film Love Slave Doll: Make Me Come.However, the pink
film industry was in decline due to the rise of the adult video (AV)
and Mochizuki decided to join the AV market, starting up his own
production company, E-Staff Union (イースタッフユニオン).
With the difficulties of surviving in the Japanese film industry of
the time, Mochizuki went into the AV business primarily to make some
money while directing films and although he expressed some doubts
about his choice he has said that if he "wanted to keep making them
[films], it was either the sexy stuff or nothing." In 1987, Mochizuki
was directing AVs for Alice Japan, a company founded in 1986 as the
adult video arm of Japan Home Video. He started the "Flashback"
(フラッシュムック) series for Alice Japan in August 1987 and
had produced Volume 30 in the series by December 1990 including one
with the 1980s AV Idol Nao Saejima. In April 1990, he directed another
early AV Idol, Yumika Hayashi, in the Alice Japan video The Contrary
Soap Heaven 5 and he remained very active with Alice Japan through
1991.
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