is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor who has worked in

pink film in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. The Western equiv ...

, adult videos (AV), and in mainstream comedy, horror and fantasy films. Film critic Jasper Sharp describes him as one of the few figures in the Japanese erotic film scene who have made a name for themselves overseas.

Life and career

Nakano was born in

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, Japan in 1962. He began working in

with the

Shintōhō Eiga is a Japanese pink film production company and film distributor located in Tokyo, Japan which has been among the most influential studios in the pink film genre since its beginnings. Foundation The first Shintōhō, or "New Toho", also known a ...

company and in 1991, together with

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and Toshiya Ueno, Nakano assembled a conpendium of the best scenes from pink films which was released by

as ''That's Hentai-tainment''. Nakano made his debut as a director with the pink film , also known as ''Spiral Zone'', for

in 1992. Nakano won the Best New Director award at the 1992

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ceremony. Nakano moved into the adult video (AV) scene in 1993 directing two videos for

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, and . The next year, Nakano produced the

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genre video, ''ExorSister'', the first of a series of four hardcore erotic horror releases. The videos all featured

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artist Bang Ippongi as Maria Cruel the ExorSister. The Allmovie site commented on the "cheesy" quality of the shot on video productions. One of the sequels ''Uratsukidōji: Daiinshin Fukkatsu-hen'' starred

AV Idol An or is a type of pornographic film actress in Japan. It is a sub-category of the idol culture in Japanese pop entertainment. AV idols work in the pornographic business, often both as an actress as well as a model as the video performances ...

Yumika Hayashi was a Japanese AV idol and '' pink film'' actress. She earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career in which she starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films. Hayashi was also a prominent ''pink fil ...

. Nakano followed this series with the 1996 softcore comedy video featuring topless

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wrestling girls including actress

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. It was later (2001) released with English subtitles. As an actor, Nakano performed in the gay-themed 1997 pink film . In 1998 Nakano wrote and directed the

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release set in the

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and starring actresses

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and Hotaru Hazuki. He was also the screenwriter for the 2000 pink film fantasy Whore Angels which won the Silver Prize for Best Film of the year at the 2000

ceremony. Nakano's second venture into directing pink film was again for

, the May 2002 production .Sharp p.352 But Nakano's most important contribution to pink film was probably his screenplay for the internationally known ''

The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003) was introduced as a pink film, with the title but it developed into a cult hit and the producers allowed director Mitsuru Meike to expand it into its present form. In 2007 the film was featured at the Santa Barbara International Film Fes ...

'' which had a significant effect on the making of pink film. Nakano also continued his career as a pink film actor, appearing in several works directed by

, including the February 2004 ''Aspiring Home Tutor: Soiled Pure Whiteness'' which took the award for Seventh Best Film at the

ceremony and the Pearl Prize at the

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and the 2005 ''Miss Peach: Peachy Sweetness Huge Breasts'' which won the fifth Best Film of the year at the

ceremony and the Pinky Ribbon Award as the Best Film of 2005. In August 2004, he returned to the horror genre, writing and directing the low-budget

, a revision of

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's ''Shivers'' starring

and

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. One review describes it as a "comical, over-the-top" film "that delivers a bizarre storyline that is largely entertaining." The film was a subject of one of the segments of the

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Life and career

Filmography

Writer/Director

Writer (Television)

Writer (Film)

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