is a Japanese
adult video
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(AV) director and producer, foremost known as a director of
busty (and
chubby) as well as
kinbaku fetish genres.
Early career
Takatsuki enrolled at the
Chuo University
, commonly referred to as or , is a private flagship research university in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (the English Law School), Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country. The univer ...
in 1979 where he became a member of the film society and he found job as an
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vis ...
in 1980. He later started to work under many directors and companies, and by August 1986, he was assigned as a director for the
Nikkatsu
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distributed series written by his friend Mikito Kawabata.
[ Over the next year, Takatsuki directed six of these films.]
AV career
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Life and career
Tadas ...
's successful series ''Onanie'',CineMagic Co.
, is a Japanese adult film studio, producing and distributing its own films, usually of the bondage, S&M and simulated rape genre, as well as those produced externally.
Company information
The CineMagic company was founded on November 11, 1983, ...
production ''Kinbaku Performance'' (緊縛パフォーマンス) that featured renowned nawashi Chimuo Nureki, Haruki Yukimura, and Doji Nekura.
A major breakthrough in Takatsuki's career came with his ''bakunyū
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'' series or ''Bomber Girl'' of 49 adult videos released from 1995 to early 2000s by the VCA label D-Cup, featuring many big-bust idols of the period such as Mariko Morikawa, Miki Sawaguchi, and Maria Tachibana. Takatsuki continued to produce ''bakunyū'' videos for various labels/studios such as Alice Japan
was established on April 5, 1986, as the adult video (AV) label for Japan Home Video (JHV).
Company information
The early AVs produced by JHV went under the Penguin (ぺんぎん) label, the first title being the 30-minute-long softcore ''Asobi ...
, Madonna
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, and Atlas21
, formerly known as VIP, is a Japanese adult video company with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
Company information
VIP
The AV company was founded in June 1981 and issued its first video, titled , in December of that same year making it one of t ...
and also created for GAS an eponymous label that releases videos in the same niche, often featuring '' puranpā'' performers like Miyabi Hayama (葉山雅), Eri Hamasaki (浜咲恵利), Hana Uehara (上原花), Jun Minami (美波じゅん), Mitsuki An (杏美月), Satsuki Nayu (沙月なゆ), and Sora Nanami (七海そら). In December 2004, GAS released ''The Super Body: Kagari Manatsu'' (すごいからだ 真夏かがり) directed by Takatsuki as its first video in the big-bust gravure video series with the code GASW.
In 2003 and 2004, Takatsuki directed the series ''Why I Want to be Bound'' (私が緊縛されたい理由) that featured nawashi Akechi Denki and Chimuo Nureki for the CineMagic NOIR label. Another kinbaku video by Takatsuki that featured veteran nawashi Chimuo Nureki and American
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porn star Caroline Pierce as his bondage model
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Fetish models often w ...
, titled ''Brutal and Immoral Humiliation: Big Butt Woman from the USA'' (暴淫暴辱・ＵＳＡ巨尻女) was released from CineMagic NOIR label in 2005.
In 2014, Takatsuki directed a documentary film on famed AV entrepreneur Toru Muranishi titled ''Toru Muranishi: It Is Nice''. The film, which took its name from one of Muranishi's early videos for Crystal-Eizou, won a special award at the New Directors Film Festival in Tokyo where it was shown in November 2014.
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Japanese film directors
Japanese pornographic film directors
Pink film directors
1959 births
Living people
People from Tokyo