Ryūichi Hiroki (廣木 隆一, Hiroki Ryūichi, born January 1, 1954)
is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap
Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described
Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent
students of character".Hiroki is one of several Japanese film
directors who got their start in the Japanese softcore pornographic
film genre of pink film. He said in an interview that in the late
1970s when he wanted to get into directing, he wrote a script for a
pink film and brought it to the ÅŒkura Eiga studio but they told him
he needed to start as an assistant director. At this time he met
prolific pink film director Genji Nakamura and during the next three
years, Hiroki worked as an assistant director, editor, and manager for
Nakamura's company YÅ« Pro. Hiroki made his first film as a director
with Sexual Abuse! Exposed Woman for Million Film in 1982. His debut
met with poor reviews and was "terrible" according to Hiroki and he
went back to being an assistant director for a time.Hiroki's next
excursion into directing, beginning in November 1983, was more
successful, a trio of homoerotic pink films for ENK, a new company
with links to Nikkatsu, which specialized in gay pink film. Our
Season, Our Generation and Our Moment were frank depictions of the
tribulations of gay couples in 1980s Japan. All three films starred
veteran pink film actor TÅ ru Nakane and Our Season, considered the
best of the trio by the pink film historians Thomas and Yuko Weisser,
had a screenplay by future director RokurÅ Mochizuki.The Weissers dub
Hiroki "the prince of youth porn" for his 1984 film produced by YÅ«
Pro and distributed by Nikkatsu, Teacher, Don't Turn Me On!, once
again scripted by RokurÅ Mochizuki and featuring TÅ ru Nakane as the
college-age tutor of a high-school girl. His most notorious works for
Nakamura's YÅ« Pro were a series of brutal S&M movies directed under
the pseudonym GŠIjūin (伊集院剛), which was also sometimes used
by scriptwriter Hitoshi Ishikawa and Nakamura himself. According to
Hiroki, using a pseudonym gave him greater freedom to describe S&M
relationships in a new way. The GŠIjūin films directed by Hiroki
were the 1984 The SM, distributed by Million Film, The Sexual Abuse
from February 1985 and The Sacrifice from February 1986, with the
latter two films being released by Nikkatsu.
is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap
Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described
Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent
students of character".Hiroki is one of several Japanese film
directors who got their start in the Japanese softcore pornographic
film genre of pink film. He said in an interview that in the late
1970s when he wanted to get into directing, he wrote a script for a
pink film and brought it to the ÅŒkura Eiga studio but they told him
he needed to start as an assistant director. At this time he met
prolific pink film director Genji Nakamura and during the next three
years, Hiroki worked as an assistant director, editor, and manager for
Nakamura's company YÅ« Pro. Hiroki made his first film as a director
with Sexual Abuse! Exposed Woman for Million Film in 1982. His debut
met with poor reviews and was "terrible" according to Hiroki and he
went back to being an assistant director for a time.Hiroki's next
excursion into directing, beginning in November 1983, was more
successful, a trio of homoerotic pink films for ENK, a new company
with links to Nikkatsu, which specialized in gay pink film. Our
Season, Our Generation and Our Moment were frank depictions of the
tribulations of gay couples in 1980s Japan. All three films starred
veteran pink film actor TÅ ru Nakane and Our Season, considered the
best of the trio by the pink film historians Thomas and Yuko Weisser,
had a screenplay by future director RokurÅ Mochizuki.The Weissers dub
Hiroki "the prince of youth porn" for his 1984 film produced by YÅ«
Pro and distributed by Nikkatsu, Teacher, Don't Turn Me On!, once
again scripted by RokurÅ Mochizuki and featuring TÅ ru Nakane as the
college-age tutor of a high-school girl. His most notorious works for
Nakamura's YÅ« Pro were a series of brutal S&M movies directed under
the pseudonym GŠIjūin (伊集院剛), which was also sometimes used
by scriptwriter Hitoshi Ishikawa and Nakamura himself. According to
Hiroki, using a pseudonym gave him greater freedom to describe S&M
relationships in a new way. The GŠIjūin films directed by Hiroki
were the 1984 The SM, distributed by Million Film, The Sexual Abuse
from February 1985 and The Sacrifice from February 1986, with the
latter two films being released by Nikkatsu.
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