a.k.a. Yasui Shūchi is a Japanese director and screenwriter primarily known for his work in ''

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s'' but who has also worked in

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(AV) and in mainstream film.

Life and career

Kataoka was born in Hokkaido on November 23, 1950. He studied at the College of Economics at

Kanto Gakuin University is a private university located in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan. History It traces its roots to The Baptist Theological Seminary of Yokohama established by Albert Arnold Bennett, a missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, establis ...

but dropped out before graduation. In the early 1980s he began to work at producer-director

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's Shishi Productions. At first he worked as an assistant director for Mukai and

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and then released his debut film as a director in 1983, ''Yokoku Bōkō: Yaru! Sasu!'', the first of a series of action films starring Usagi Asō distributed by the

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. Since then he has made many action pink films, and has gone on to direct mainstream movies and

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. At the

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for 1988 Kataoka's ''Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting'' was awarded Best Film, and Kataoka was given the awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Partial filmography

* (1983) * ''

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'' (地獄のローパー、緊縛・SM・18才(SMクレーン、宙吊り), 1986) * ''

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''　(SM倫子のおもらし, 1986) * ''

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'' (逆さ吊し縛り縄, 1985) * '' Subway Serial Rape Series'' (「地下鉄連続レイプ」シリーズ, 1985-1988) ** ''Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting'' (地下鉄連続レイプ　愛人狩り, 1988)

Bibliography

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Japanese

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References

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