Banmei Takahashi
Takahashi in 2022
Born	(1949-05-10) May 10, 1949 (age 75) Nara, Nara, Japan
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1975–present
Spouse	Keiko Takahashi

Banmei Takahashi (高橋伴明, Takahashi Banmei) (or Tomoaki Takahashi)^[1] is a Japanese film director. Takahashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with Escaped Rapist Criminal. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years.^[2] He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979.^[2]

Takahashi married Nikkatsu Roman Porno and pink film actress Keiko Sekine who then changed her name to Keiko Takahashi and starred in several of Takahashi's films.^[3] Sekine appeared in Takahashi's Tattoo Ari (1982), a mainstream box-office hit which won Takahashi the award for Best Director at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival.^[4][5] With the success of this film, Takahashi dissolved Takahashi Productions to focus on mainstream filmmaking.^[2] Takahashi's 1994 film Ai no Shinsekai, inspired by photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's work, is significant as the first Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.^[6]

Filmography

• Escaped Rapist Criminal (1972)
• Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976)
• Girl Mistress (1980)
• Wolf (狼, Ōkami) (1982)
• Tattoo Ari (1982)
• Door (1988)
• Door II: Tokyo Diary (1991)
• Ai no Shinsekai (1994)
• Zen (2009)
• BOX: The Hakamada Case (2010)
• Takumi: The Man Beyond Borders (2012)
• Blood Bead (2015)
• Peaceful Death (2021)^[7]
• No Place to Go (2022)^[8]

References

External links

• "Banmei Takahashi at IMDb". IMDb.

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