(or Tomoaki Takahashi) is a Japanese film director. Takahashi 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.Weisser, p. 234. 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 Takahashi's films. Sekine appeared in Takahashi's ''

Tattoo Ari is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Banmei Takahashi. The film was based on the life of Akiyoshi Umekawa. Cast * Ryudo Uzaki as Akio Takeda * Keiko Sekine as Michiyo * Misako Watanabe as Sadako Takeda * Ayako Ōta (太田あや子) as Miyoko * ...

'' (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 '' Ai no Shinsekai'', inspired by photographer

Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist professionally known by the mononym . Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books.The number depends on such things ...

's work, is significant as the first Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.

Filmography

* ''Escaped Rapist Criminal'' (1972) * ''Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution'' (1976) * '' Girl Mistress'' (1980) * (1982) * ''

'' (1982) * ''Ai no Shinsekai'' (1994) * ''

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'' (2009) * '' BOX: The Hakamada Case'' (2010) * '' Takumi: The Man Beyond Borders'' (2012) * ''Blood Bead'' (2015) * ''Peaceful Death'' (2021) * ''Michiko's Long Night'' (2022)

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* 1949 births Living people Japanese film directors People from Nara Prefecture {{Japan-film-director-stub