is a Japanese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

Life and career

Tetsuya Takehora studied at the , founded by director

Shōhei Imamura was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from J ...

in 1975 as the Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film. He entered the film industry as an assistant director at Ōkura Pictures (

OP Eiga , also known as or Okura Pictures, is the largest and one of the oldest independent Japanese studios which produce and distribute pink films.Sharp, p. 10. It was founded in 1961 by Mitsuru Ōkura, former president of film studio Shintōhō. Alon ...

), in which capacity he worked for five years. He made his directorial debut with (2004), and won the Best New Director award at the

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 schola ...

the same year for . Takehora's films are generally in a light, erotic-comic vein, and have proven popular with ''pink film'' audiences and critics. He was given the Best Director title the following year for ''Lustful Hitchhiker: Sought Wife'' (2005), and a four-film career retrospective show at the third annual R18 Love Cinema Showcase held at Tokyo's Theatre Pole-Pole Higashi Nakano in 2006.

Award-winning films

"Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix

* 2004 9th place: * 2005 4th place: * 2005 Honorable Mention: * 2006 1st place: * 2006 2nd place: * 2007 9th place (tie): * 2008 3rd place: * 2008 9th place: * 2009 8th place:

Pinky Ribbon Awards

* 2006 Gold Prize:

Bibliography

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Japanese

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References

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