Shuji Kataoka Explained

Shūji Kataoka
Birth Name:Shūji Kataoka
Birth Date:23 November 1950[1]
Birth Place:Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Occupation:Film Director, screenwriter
Years Active:1983–present

a.k.a. Yasui Shūchi[2] is a Japanese director and screenwriter primarily known for his work in pink films but who has also worked in adult videos (AV) and in mainstream film.

Life and career

Kataoka was born in Hokkaido on November 23, 1950.[3] He studied at the College of Economics at Kanto Gakuin University but dropped out before graduation.[1] In the early 1980s he began to work at producer-director Kan Mukai's Shishi Productions.[1] [3] [4] At first he worked as an assistant director for Mukai and Yōjirō Takita[1] and then released his debut film as a director in 1983, Yokoku Bōkō: Yaru! Sasu!,[1] the first of a series of action films starring Usagi Asō distributed by the Toei Company.[5] [6]

Since then he has made many action pink films, and has gone on to direct mainstream movies and V-Cinema.[3] At the Pink Grand Prix 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.[7]

Partial filmography

Bibliography

English

Japanese

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://www.dgj.or.jp/members/detail.php?id=137&sig=f335ffb7545872ae5661be4af78e151d. ja:片岡修二(かたおか しゅうじ). 2014-06-02. Directors Guild of Japan. Japanese. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140606220204/http://www.dgj.or.jp/members/detail.php?id=137&sig=f335ffb7545872ae5661be4af78e151d. 2014-06-06.
  2. Book: Sharp, Jasper. Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. 382. 2008. FAB Press. Guildford. 978-1-903254-54-7.
  3. Web site: Shuji Kataoka. 2010-11-02. Pinkeiga.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100203235347/http://www.pinkeiga.com/films/bios/shuji-kataoka/. 2010-02-03.
  4. Sharp, p. 52
  5. Book: Weisser. Thomas. Mihara Weisser. Yuko. Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. 1998. Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications. Miami. 1-889288-52-7. 114–115, 421.
  6. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0344190.htm. ja:片岡修二. Japanese Movie Database. Japanese. 2014-06-03.
  7. Web site: Best Ten of 1988 1988年度ベストテン <第1回ピンク大賞>. 2010-04-16. P.G. Web Site. Japanese.
  8. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0344190.htm. ja:片岡修二. 2010-01-07. Japanese. Japanese Movie Database.