Tetsuya Takehora Explained

Tetsuya Takehora
Birth Date:	^[1]
Birth Place:	Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Yearsactive:	2004–present

is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Tetsuya Takehora studied at the,^[1] founded by director Shōhei Imamura in 1975 as the Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film.^[2] He entered the film industry as an assistant director at Ōkura Pictures (OP Eiga), in which capacity he worked for five years.^[3] He made his directorial debut with (2004),^[4] and won the Best New Director award at the Pink Grand Prix the same year for .^[5] Takehora's films are generally in a light, erotic-comic vein, and have proven popular with pink film audiences and critics.^[3] He was given the Best Director title the following year for Lustful Hitchhiker: Sought Wife (2005),^[6] and a four-film career retrospective show at the third annual R18 Love Cinema Showcase held at Tokyo's Theatre PolePole Higashi-Nakano in 2006.^[3]

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

English

• Book: Sharp, Jasper. Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. 331–332, 362. 2008. FAB Press. Guildford. 978-1-903254-54-7.

Japanese

• Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=296668. ja:竹洞哲也 たけほら・てつや. 2009-06-22. allcinema.net. Japanese.
• Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0624830.htm. ja:竹洞哲也. 2009-06-22. Japanese. Japanese Movie Database.
• Web site: Variety Japan. ja:竹洞哲也 （ヤケホラテツヤ）. 2009-06-22. Variety Japan. Japanese.
• Web site: http://intro.ne.jp/contents/2007/06/19_2309.html. ja:竹洞哲也（監督）×小松公典（脚本）×サーモン鮭山. 2009-06-22. intro.ne.jp (Creators Movie Magazine). Japanese.

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: http://intro.ne.jp/contents/2007/06/19_2309.html. ja:竹洞哲也（監督）×小松公典（脚本）×サーモン鮭山. 2009-06-22. intro.ne.jp (Creators Movie Magazine). Japanese.
2. Web site: 沿革 (History). 2009-06-22. Japanese. Japan Academy of Moving Images. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090501123455/http://www.eiga.ac.jp/history.html. 2009-05-01.
3. Book: Sharp, Jasper. Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. 331. 2008. FAB Press. Guildford. 978-1-903254-54-7.
4. Web site: Pink Films History. 2009-06-22. Japanese. P.G. Web Site. 2012-08-05. https://archive.today/20120805205210/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/history/history.htm. dead.
5. Web site: Best Ten of 2004 (２００４年度ベストテン). January 18, 2009. P.G. Web Site. Japanese. July 7, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150707150014/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2004.htm. dead.
6. Web site: http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2005.htm. Best Ten of 2005. ja:２００５年度ベストテン. January 18, 2009. P.G. Web Site. Japanese.