Minoru Kunizawa Explained

Minoru Kunizawa
Birth Place:Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Occupation:Film director
Screenwriter
Actor
Yearsactive:1995 –

a.k.a. is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for his work in the pink film genre. Including Yutaka Ikejima, Yumi Yoshiyuki and Tarō Araki, Kunizawa is one of the four top directors of Ōkura Productions (OP) at the turn of the millennium, and the only one of the four who did not start out as an actor. Instead, Kunizawa joined the film industry as an assistant director to pink film pioneer Satoru Kobayashi.[1] He made his directorial debut with (1995).[2] Kunizawa's films have been very popular with pink film fans, and he has had more than one film in the Top Ten at the Pink Grand Prix for multiple years. He has also won the Best Director prize twice. (2003), for which he won Best Director, is an erotic variation on the X-Men story.[1]

Top-ten films, Pink Grand Prix

Bibliography

English

Japanese

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Sharp, Jasper. Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. 334. 2008. FAB Press. Guildford. 978-1-903254-54-7.
  2. Web site: http://pin-pon.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kunizawa/kuni_index.html. ja:国沢実. 2009-06-17. Japanese. Pin-pon.hp.infoseek.co.jp/].