(born 1961) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer and company executive who is active primarily in the

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(AV) field.

Life and career

Nikkatsu and Hot Entertainment

Kaji was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1961. He says that he was interested in film from his early youth, and made 8mm movies as a student. After graduating from high school, he entered the , a film school which was established in 1975 within the Nikkatsu studio. He then joined the Nikkatsu company in a managerial role producing original films and videos. He eventually left Nikkatsu to pursue a career as an independent director. By at least late 1990, he was directing adult videos for the HRC Cher label, including ''The Female Teacher's Nightmare Trap 4''. In November 1991, he directed Riria Yoshikawa's retirement video, ''Making love with my husband (her retirement)'', for HRC. In March 1991, Kaji formed his own adult video studio,

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, and, by 2000, he was "a veteran director of over 150 adult films and videos." In addition to adult videos, Kaji directed the Hot Pictures

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production , which was released in October 1996 In July 1997, Kaji produced and Hot Entertainment released another V-Cinema title, , starring

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and directed by Gunji Kawasaki, with a story based on a real murder case. A further V-Cinema work was the July 1999 horror video , which Kaji wrote and directed. Kaji received a measure of international celebrity with his 1999 partly autobiographical mock documentary ''Ekiben''. The ''Variety'' review of the film called it "Consistently inventive, sometimes very funny and finally rather touching", while AllRovi commented that it was a "funny and oddly poignant film." He was also the executive producer for the Hot Entertainment March 2000 production of screenwriter Toshiyuki Morioka's debut as a director, . In 2008, Kaji made news by being arrested by

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and charged with

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in a public place for filming an adult video in public on 20 July 2007. Actress Asahi Miura and five other staff members from

were also arrested. The filming was being done in the back of a

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and police said that although the truck was partially covered, it could be seen into from surrounding buildings in Tokyo's

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district.

Other activities

Kaji has also been involved in other business ventures, including the video production company , the retailer with shops and a website selling

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and sex aids, and In 2005, he established , a production company which specializes in adult videos featuring

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actresses, including

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s Miki Mizuasa and Hime Tsukino. Kaji has also worked as a photographer and stylist, and, in January 2009, he published his first novel, entitled ().

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