Years active 2004 – | Name Tetsuya Takehora | |
Born 1974 (age 40–41) Aomori Prefecture, Japan Occupation Film director
Screenwriter | ||
Tetsuya Takehora (竹洞哲也, Takehora Tetsuya) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
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Life and career
Tetsuya Takehora studied at the Japan Academy of Moving Images (日本映画学校), founded by director Shōhei Imamura in 1975 as the Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film. He entered the film industry as an assistant director at Ōkura Pictures (OP Eiga), in which capacity he worked for five years. He made his directorial debut with Peep Show (人妻の秘密 覗き覗かれ) (2004), and won the Best New Director award at the Pink Grand Prix the same year for Picture Book of a Beautiful Young Girl: Soaked Uniform (美少女図鑑 汚された制服, Bishōjozukan: abusareta seifuku). Takehora's films are generally in a light, erotic-comic vein, and have proven popular with pink film audiences and critics. He was given the Best Director title the following year for Lustful Hitchhiker: Sought Wife (2005), and a four-film career retrospective show at the third annual R18 Love Cinema Showcase held at Tokyo's Theatre Pole-Pole Higashi Nakano in 2006.