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Banmei Takahashi is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Japonais born on 10 may 1949 at Nara (Japon)
Banmei Takahashi (高橋伴明, Takahashi Banmei) (or Tomoaki Takahashi) is a Japanese film director. Takashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with Escaped Rapist Criminal. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years. He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979.
Takahashi married Nikkatsu Roman Porno and pink film actress Keiko Sekine who then changed her name to Keiko Takahashi and starred in several of Takashi's films. Sekine appeared in Takahashi's Tattoo Ari (1982), a mainstream box-office hit which won Takahashi the award for Best Director at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival. With the success of this film, Takahashi dissolved Takahashi Productions to focus on mainstream filmmaking. Takahashi's 1994 film New World of Love, inspired by photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's work, is significant as the first Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.
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Banmei Takahashi
Banmei Takahashi (高橋伴明, Takahashi Banmei) (or Tomoaki Takahashi) is a Japanese film director. Takashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with Escaped Rapist Criminal. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years. He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979.
Takahashi married Nikkatsu Roman Porno and pink film actress Keiko Sekine who then changed her name to Keiko Takahashi and starred in several of Takashi's films. Sekine appeared in Takahashi's Tattoo Ari (1982), a mainstream box-office hit which won Takahashi the award for Best Director at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival. With the success of this film, Takahashi dissolved Takahashi Productions to focus on mainstream filmmaking. Takahashi's 1994 film New World of Love, inspired by photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's work, is significant as the first Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.
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Filmography of Banmei Takahashi (7 films)
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Directed by Banmei Takahashi
Actors Bae Soo-bin, Yuma Ishigaki, Yōji Tanaka, Tomoka Kurokawa, Ren Osugi, Shun Shioya
Rating58%
Made in Japan: Kora! (2011)
Directed by Banmei Takahashi
Genres Drama
Actors Miyuki Matsuda, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Chieko Matsubara, Reina Asami
Zen (2009)
Directed by Banmei Takahashi
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Buddhism
Actors Yuki Uchida, Nakamura Kankurō VI, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kengo Kora, Jun Murakami, Keiko Takahashi
Rating72%
Le film raconte l'histoire vraie du jeune moine japonais Dōgen qui s'initia au bouddhisme zen en Chine au XIII siècle et l'importa au Japon.
Tattoo (1982)
Directed by Banmei Takahashi
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Keiko Takahashi, Misako Watanabe, Shirō Shimomoto, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Maiko Kazama, Yoshio Harada
Rating62%
Girl Mistress (1980)
, 1hDirected by Banmei Takahashi
Genres Romance, Pornographic
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Shirō Shimomoto, Ren Osugi
Rating32%
An older yakuza man falls in love with Seru, a high school girl. When he is put in prison, Seru begins working as a prostitute to earn money for the gangster's parole. During her yakuza lover's incarceration, Seru gains a new, young boyfriend. The yakuza discovers the new boyfriend after he is released from prison. Realizing that she will have a better life with her new boyfriend who is not associated with the yakuza, he sacrifices his love for Seru and gives her up.
Scriptwriter
Zen (2009)
Directed by Banmei Takahashi
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Buddhism
Actors Yuki Uchida, Nakamura Kankurō VI, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kengo Kora, Jun Murakami, Keiko Takahashi
Roles Responsable de l'adaptation
Rating72%
Le film raconte l'histoire vraie du jeune moine japonais Dōgen qui s'initia au bouddhisme zen en Chine au XIII siècle et l'importa au Japon.
Virgin Rope Makeover (1979)
, 1hDirected by Mamoru Watanabe
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Shirō Shimomoto
In this Meiji period erotic costume drama, Shino (Mayuko Hino) has seen her step-mother Aya (Naomi Oka) take over the family inheritance and invite her petty criminal lover (Masayoshi Nogami) into the family home after the death of her father (Kōji Kokonoe). Shino leaves to go on the traditional temple pilgrimage around the island of Shikoku. During her pilgrimage, she is assaulted several times by bandits but eventually returns home disguised as a geisha to take her revenge
Producer
The Crazy Family (1984)
, 1h46Directed by Gakuryū Ishii
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Yūki Kudō, Mitsuko Baishō, Hitoshi Ueki, Akira Ogata
Roles Producer
Rating70%
La famille Kobayashi décide de réaliser leur rêve et d'emménager dans une maison moderne en banlieue. Chacun à sa propre occupation. Le père Katsuhiko se consacre à son travail, la mère Saeko occupe sa place de femme au foyer, la fille Erika prend des cours de chant et le fils Masaki prépare ses examens. Tout va bien dans la maison jusqu'au jour où le grand-père Yasukune arrive et décide de s'y installer. Malheureusement, la maison est déjà complète. C'est alors que Katsuhiko et Yasukune se mettent à faire de gros travaux dans la maison, afin que ce dernier ait une chambre. Cela va perturber toute la famille et fera beaucoup de dégât.