Tetsuji Takechi

Tetsuji Takechi 武智 鉄二 Takechi Tetsuji 10 December 1912 26 July 1988 was a Japanese theatrical and film director critic and author First coming to prominence for his theatrical criticism in the 1940s and 1950s he produced influential and popular experimental kabuki plays Beginning in the mid1950s he continued his innovative theatrical work in noh kyōgen and modern theater In late 1956 and early 1957 he hosted a popular TV program The Tetsuji Takechi Hour which featured his reinterpretations of Japanese stage classics In the 1960s Takechi entered the film industry by producing controversial softcore theatrical pornography His 1964 film Daydream was the first bigbudget mainstream pink film released in Japan After the release of his 1965 film Black Snow the government arrested him on indecency charges The trial became a public battle over censorship between Japans intellectuals and the government Takechi won the lawsuit enabling the wave of softcore pink films which dominated Japans domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s In the later 1960s Takechi produced three more pink films In the 1980s he again started pushing boundaries by featuring real unsimulated sex in the 4 movies he directed during this period