| Japanese Porn Directors: Tetsuji Takechi, Tohjiro, KYōko Aizome, Kan Mukai, Noboru Tanaka, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Giichi Nishihara, Masaru Kon Contributor(s): Books, LLC (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1155836251 ISBN-13: 9781155836256 Publisher: Books LLC OUR PRICE: $33.38 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 198 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 197. Not illustrated. Chapters: Tetsuji Takechi, Tohjiro, Kyōko Aizome, Kan Mukai, Noboru Tanaka, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Giichi Nishihara, Masaru Konuma, Katsuyuki Hirano, Satoru Kobayashi, Noboru Iguchi, Yumi Yoshiyuki, Toshiki Satō, Yutaka Ikejima, Takahisa Zeze, Rumi Tama, Kōji Seki, Kōyū Ohara, Kaoru Adachi, Mamoru Watanabe, Kōji Wakamatsu, Naoyuki Tomomatsu, Shinji Imaoka, Kazuhiro Sano, Sachi Hamano, Tarō Araki, Company Matsuo, Mitsuru Meike, Yūji Tajiri, Hideto Aki, Tetsuya Takehora, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Minoru Kunizawa, Yoshikazu Katō, Shuji Kataoka, Toshiya Ueno. Excerpt: Tetsuji Takechi Takechi Tetsuji, December 10, 1912 July 26, 1988) was a Japanese theatrical and film director, critic and author. First coming to prominence for his theatrical criticism, in the 1940s and 1950s he produced influential and popular experimental kabuki plays. Beginning in the mid-1950s, he continued his innovative theatrical work in noh, kygen and modern theater. In late 1956 and early 1957 he hosted a popular TV program, The Tetsuji Takechi Hour, which featured his reinterpretations of Japanese stage classics. In the 1960s, Takechi entered the film industry by producing controversial soft-core theatrical pornography. His 1964 film Daydream was the first big-budget, mainstream pink film released in Japan. After the release of his 1965 film Black Snow, the government arrested him on indecency charges. The trial became a public battle over censorship between Japan's intellectuals and the government. Takechi won the lawsuit, enabling the wave of softcore pink films which dominated Japan's domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. In the later 1960s, Takechi produced three more pink films. Takechi did not work in film during most of the 1970s. In the 1980s, he remade Daydream twice, starring actress Kyko Aizome in both films. The first Daydream re... |
