BLUE FILM WOMAN

Born in 1937, he established his own production company, Mukai Production (later renamed Shishi Production), in 1965. Since his feature debut Flesh, he has directed more than 100 sexploitation films – so-called pink movies – and became one of the most important directors of the heyday of pink movies in the 60s and 70s. As a producer, he raised several generations of young directors, among them Takita Yojiro, Sato Hisayasu, Zeze Takahisa and Imaoka Shinji. Since the late 1990s, beginning with Going West, he directed a number of independent films about elderly people. He died in June 2008.