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Yūji Tajiri
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the group of ''pink film'' directors collectively known as the , a group which also includes Toshiya Ueno, Mitsuru Meike, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshirō Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto. Life and career Yūji Tajiri was born in a small town in Hokkaido in 1968. His main interest as a youth was watching movies, and he began writing his own film scripts and making 8mm films while a teenager. At this time he began sneaking into adult theaters, and was impressed by director Kichitaro Negishi's Roman Porno film '' Crazy Fruit'' (1981)-- a ''pink'' remake of '' Crazed Fruit'' (1956). Tajiri moved to Tokyo and, while attending Teikyo University, continued his movie-going habits. He was impressed with Hisayasu Satō's '' Lolita: Vibrator Torture'' (1987), an independent ''pink film'' which he saw on a triple-bill with two Nikkatsu films. After he found an advertisement from Shishi studios for assistant director p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazed Fruit
, also known as ''Juvenile Jungle'', is a 1956 Japanese Sun Tribe film directed by Kō Nakahira. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Shintaro Ishihara, the older brother of cast member Yujiro Ishihara,Marc Moha"Crazed Fruit: The Criterion Collection"/ref> and is about two brothers who fall in love with the same woman and the resulting conflict. The film was controversial upon release because of its depiction of Japanese youth. It later was known as a foundational work of the Sun Tribe genre. Cast * Masahiko Tsugawa – Haruji * Yujiro Ishihara – Natsuhisa * Mie Kitahara – Eri * Harold Conway – Eri's husband * Masumi Okada – Frank * Shintaro Ishihara – Ishihara References External links * * ''Heat Stroke: Crazed Fruit and Japanese Cinema’s Season in the Sun''an essay by Chuck Stephens at the Criterion Collection''Crazed Fruit: Imagining a New Japan—The Taiyozoku Films''an essay by Michael Raine at the Criterion Collection The Criter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yutaka Ikejima
is a Japanese film director, actor, and producer. Considered the most successful filmmaker in the ''pink film'' genre in the 2000s, his films are popular with traditional ''pink film'' audiences, fans of cinema, and with critics. Because of his prolific contributions to the ''pink film'' he has earned the nickname "Mr. Pink". Life and career " ink Eigais my lifework because it lets me earn money, play leading roles and touch naked women."-- Yutaka Ikejima Yutaka Ikejima was born on March 30, 1948. He studied Literature at Waseda University. He first entered the entertainment business in the late 1970s as an actor with Shuji Terayama's theatrical group Tenjō Sajiki. His film debut was in the 1981 Genji Nakamura ''pink film'' ''Semi Documentary: Housewife Prostitution Team'' aka ''Document Porno: Married Woman Prostitution Techniques''. In contrast to his stage career, in his screen work, Ikejima has stayed in the erotic genres. Between 1981 and 1988 he appeared in over 500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 In Film
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's posthumous final film ''Eyes Wide Shut'', Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film '' All About My Mother'', the science-fiction film ''The Matrix'', the animated works ''The Iron Giant'', ''Toy Story 2'', ''Tarzan'', and '' South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', the Best Picture-winner '' American Beauty'', and the well-received '' The Green Mile''. Other noteworthy releases include M. Night Shyamalan's ''The Sixth Sense'', David Fincher's ''Fight Club'', Sofia Coppola's ''The Virgin Suicides'', Paul Thomas Anderson's ''Magnolia'' and Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's ''Being John Malkovich''. The year also featured George Lucas' top-grossing '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace''. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated their 75th anniversaries in 1999. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1999 by worldwide gross are as follows: Awards 1999 films By country/region * List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Movie Database
The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. Nomura started the site in 1997, and it contains movies from 1899 (Second Year of Movies in Japan recorded) to the present day. See also * IMDb References External links * Internet properties established in 1997 Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ... Online film databases {{film-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitch – You Are My Toy
Twitch may refer to: Biology * Muscle contraction ** Convulsion, rapid and repeated muscle contraction and relaxation ** Fasciculation, a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction ** Myoclonic twitch, a jerk usually caused by sudden muscle contractions ** Myokymia, a continuous, involuntary muscle twitch that affects the muscles of the face ** Spasm, a sudden, involuntary contraction ** Tic, an involuntary, repetitive, nonrhythmic action ** Tremor, an involuntary, repetitive, somewhat rhythmic action * Twitching motility, a form of crawling some bacteria use to move over surfaces Entertainment * Twitch (service), an American live streaming video website * ''Twitch'' (film), a 2005 short directed by Leah Meyerhoff * Screen Anarchy, formerly Twitch Film or Twitch, a film news and review website * Maximilian "Twitch" Williams, a character in the comic series ''Sam and Twitch'' *"Twitch", a fictional character from the book ''How to Eat Fried Worms'' and its 2006 film adaptation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Grand Prix
The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film genre. Referred to by Miho Toda as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public. Pink film scholar Jasper Sharp calls it the high point of the year for the pink film community. ''PG'', a magazine focusing on the genre, hosts the Pink Grand Prix in April of each year as a review of pink films released the previous year. The top ten films are selected by a readers' poll, and the top five films are screened during the evening of the ceremony held at the Kameari-za theater in Aoto, Tokyo until its closing in 1999, and at the Shinbungeiza theater thereafter. History ''PG'' magazine was founded by Yoshiyuki Hayashida in July 1994. The magazine was preceded by the limited-circulation ''New Zoom-up'', which Hayashida started in 1989, and which held the first Pink Grand Prix awards beginning that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Office Lady Love Juice
is a 1999 Japanese Pink film directed by Yūji Tajiri. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. After her boyfriend leaves her, a 28-year-old woman has a romance with a 20-year-old man. Jasper Sharp writes that ''Office Lady Love Juice'' is a good entry film for newcomers to the ''pink film'' genre. It is, he judges, a "subtly-realised and well-drawn character study" which marked a change in style for Kokuei. Longtime fans of the genre also showed their approval by awarding it Best Film at the 1999 Pink Grand Prix. The film also won awards for Best Director (Yūji Tajiri), Best Screenplay (Kōsuke Takeda) and Best Actor (Mikio Satō). The film became something of a symbol of the rift between the older ''pinku shitenno'' ("Four Heavenly Kings" or "Four Devils") and the ''shichifukujin'' ("Seven Lucky Gods") groups of directors when it beat Takahisa Zeze is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic ''pink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic ''pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he has directed such major commercial hits as '' 64: Part I'', '' 64: Part II'', and '' The 8-Year Engagement'', while continuing to make independent art films like '' Heaven's Story'' and '' The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine''. Life and career "I try to show relationships, I make films about love. It's not just about the act of having sex, but what leads up to it and what comes after. What are the feelings of the people before, while they do it and after they did it? It's this development that interests me. I don't care very much about rape, because it's very one-sided and doesn't allow for this kind of development... I don't want to depict characters as having sex, but as making love."-- Takahisa ZezeZeze, Takahisa quoted in Takahisa Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kan Mukai
a.k.a. Hiroshi Mukai and was a Japanese film director, cinematographer, Film producer, producer and screenwriter, known for his pioneering work in the ''pink film'' genre. In the realm of ''pink'' cinema, Japanese critics have estimated that Mukai is "the only serious rival of Kōji Wakamatsu." As a producer, Mukai helped the early careers of many prominent directors, including Hisayasu Satō and Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita. In his career, he directed nearly 200 films and produced approximately 500. is Life and career Early career and 1960s Kan Mukai was born in Dairen, Manchukuo (modern Dalian, China) on October 16, 1937. He studied economics at Kyushu University, but dropped out to pursue a career in film. In 1959 he began his apprenticeship, serving as assistant director to Kiyoshi Saeki, Tadashi Imai and Isao Yoshida. He also worked as a cinematographer on projects for various studios, mostly for educational, children's and industrial films. During this early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikkatsu
is a Japanese film studio located in Bunkyō. The name ''Nikkatsu'' amalgamates the words Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Motion Pictures". Shareholders are Nippon Television Holdings (35%) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (28.4%). History Founding in 1912 Nikkatsu is Japan's oldest major movie studio, having been founded on September 10, 1912, when several production companies and theater chains, Yoshizawa Shōten, Yokota Shōkai, Fukuhōdō and M. Pathe, consolidated under the name Nippon Katsudō Shashin. The company enjoyed its share of success. It employed such notable film directors as Shozo Makino and his son Masahiro Makino. During World War II, the government ordered the ten film companies that had formed by 1941 to consolidate into two. Masaichi Nagata, founder of Daiei Film and a former Nikkatsu employee, counter-proposed that three companies be formed and the suggestion was approved. Nikkatsu, set to merge with the two weakest companies, Shin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
