Director

Tetsuji Takechi

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Directed movies: 10Directed series: 0All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 1028527

IMDb ID: nm0847463

Known for: Directing

Born: December 10, 1912

Died: July 26, 1988

Age: 75

Place of birth: Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: Yes

Career span: 1963 - 1987

Years active: 25

Average TMDB rating: 7.08

Wikidata: Q7706872

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Biography

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. In the 1980s he again started pushing boundaries by featuring real unsimulated sex in the 4 movies he directed during this period.

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