Toshiharu Ikeda (æ± ç"°æ• 春, Ikeda Toshiharu) (23 February 1951 â€"
26 December 2010) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who
worked in pink film and mainstream cinema. He won the award for Best
Director at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for Mermaid Legend.Ikeda
graduated from the literature department of Waseda University in 1974,
but became involved in filmmaking while still a student. According to
Ikeda, his entry into the film industry was accidental, the result of
a drunken barroom bet. His first job was at a small independent
production company, Ishihara Productions, but he later moved to the
major studio Nikkatsu, which at the time produced only films of the
Roman porno genre, big budget versions of the pink film. At both
companies, he began working as an Assistant Director, whose duties
could include anything from cleaning floors to shaving actresses at a
time when it was illegal to show even the slightest hint of pubic hair
in Japanese media. Ikeda continued as an Assistant Director at
Nikkatsu throughout the 1970s in such films as Flower and Snake
(1974), Wife to be Sacrificed (1974) and Noble Lady: Bound Vase
(1977), all directed by Masaru Konuma.Ikeda made his debut as a
director at Nikkatsu with the 1980 film, Sukeban Mafia which the
Weissers call "satirical, rousing, sexy and character-driven." Later
in 1980, Ikeda directed his second Roman porno feature for Nikkatsu,
Sex Hunter, which the studio considered too rough and vulgar. For
"penance", Nikkatsu sent him to Okinawa and told him to include some
romance for his next film, Blue Lagoon: A Summer Experience, which had
a standard boy-girl plot. Ikeda's last project for Nikkatsu was the
1981 Angel Guts: Red Porno, the fourth film in the six part Angel Guts
series. Ikeda was brought in at the last minute when the original
director dropped out and had only a month to shoot the film. Ikeda had
a dispute with actress Jun Izumi about a nude shot in the film and
when Nikkatsu cut the scene, Ikeda left the company feeling that they
had failed to support him.
26 December 2010) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who
worked in pink film and mainstream cinema. He won the award for Best
Director at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for Mermaid Legend.Ikeda
graduated from the literature department of Waseda University in 1974,
but became involved in filmmaking while still a student. According to
Ikeda, his entry into the film industry was accidental, the result of
a drunken barroom bet. His first job was at a small independent
production company, Ishihara Productions, but he later moved to the
major studio Nikkatsu, which at the time produced only films of the
Roman porno genre, big budget versions of the pink film. At both
companies, he began working as an Assistant Director, whose duties
could include anything from cleaning floors to shaving actresses at a
time when it was illegal to show even the slightest hint of pubic hair
in Japanese media. Ikeda continued as an Assistant Director at
Nikkatsu throughout the 1970s in such films as Flower and Snake
(1974), Wife to be Sacrificed (1974) and Noble Lady: Bound Vase
(1977), all directed by Masaru Konuma.Ikeda made his debut as a
director at Nikkatsu with the 1980 film, Sukeban Mafia which the
Weissers call "satirical, rousing, sexy and character-driven." Later
in 1980, Ikeda directed his second Roman porno feature for Nikkatsu,
Sex Hunter, which the studio considered too rough and vulgar. For
"penance", Nikkatsu sent him to Okinawa and told him to include some
romance for his next film, Blue Lagoon: A Summer Experience, which had
a standard boy-girl plot. Ikeda's last project for Nikkatsu was the
1981 Angel Guts: Red Porno, the fourth film in the six part Angel Guts
series. Ikeda was brought in at the last minute when the original
director dropped out and had only a month to shoot the film. Ikeda had
a dispute with actress Jun Izumi about a nude shot in the film and
when Nikkatsu cut the scene, Ikeda left the company feeling that they
had failed to support him.
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