is a Japanese

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(AV) director. He has directed more than 200 videos during his long career.

Life and career

Hasegawa began directing adult videos at least as early as June 1987 with , starring actress Keiko Nakazawa, for

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, a studio which had been founded just the year before by Kaoru Adachi. In 1989, Hasegawa was still making videos for V&R Planning but was also working for another early AV studio

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. By March 1991, Hasegawa was directing for

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with the video . Hasegawa would spend much of his AV career with Alice Japan, directing more than 100 videos for the studio. When the new AV studio

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started up in May 1992, Hasegawa directed the first video on their Samansa label, , starring

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. Throughout the 1990s, Hasegawa continued to direct for Alice Japan, VIP and Max-A as well as Shy Plan, Media Station, and VIP's successor

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. Hasegawa had begun directing softcore

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works as early as September 1996 with for TMC but he completed more than 20 V-Cinema productions in the 2005-2006 period. Also in 2006, Hasegawa directed the historical costume drama set in the

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, ''The Inner Palace: Indecent War'', released by

under the DoraMax label in July 2006. In addition to the hardcore video the movie was also released in a shorter softcore R-15 rated version. A sequel ''The Inner Palace: Flower of War'' (also directed by Hasegawa) was once again released in both hardcore and softcore versions. The two videos were released in a combined four-hour digitally remastered edition in May 2009. During his long career in the adult video industry, Hasegawa worked with many actresses including early

s Keiko Nakazawa,

and

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, as well as later stars

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, Riko Tachibana,

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and others. Aside from reissues of earlier AV works, all his recent activity seems to be in the V-Cinema sphere.

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