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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Ch sei Sone, Giichi Nishihara, Hisayasu Sat, Kan Mukai, Kazuhiro Sano, Kichitaro Negishi, K ji Seki, K ji Wakamatsu, K y Ohara, Ky ko Aizome, Mamoru Watanabe, Masaru Konuma, Minoru Kunizawa, Mitsuru Meike, Naomi Tani, Naoyuki Tomomatsu, Noboru Tanaka, Noribumi Suzuki, Rokur Mochizuki, Rumi Tama, Ry ichi Hiroki, Sachi Hamano, Satoru Kobayashi (director), Shinji Imaoka, Sh gor Nishimura, Shuji Kataoka, Shunya It, Tadashi Yoyogi, Takahisa Zeze, Takao Nakano, Takashi Ishii, Tar Araki, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Tetsuji Takechi, Tetsuya Takehora, Toru Muranishi, Toshiharu Ikeda, Toshiki Sat, Toshiya Fujita (director), Toshiya Ueno, Yasuharu Hasebe, Y jir Takita, Yoshikazu Kat, Y ji Tajiri, Yumi Yoshiyuki, Yutaka Ikejima. Excerpt: Tetsuji Takechi 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 mid-1950s, he continued his innovative theatrical work in noh, ky gen 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 soft-core theatrical pornography. His 1964 film Daydream was the first big-budget, 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 Japan's intellectuals and the government. Takechi won the lawsuit, enabling the wave of softcore pink films which dominated Japan's domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. In the later 1960s, Takechi produced three more pink films. Takechi did not work in film during most of the 1970s. In the 1980s, he remade Daydream twice, starring actress Ky ko Aizome in both films. The first Daydream remake (1981) is considered the first theatrical hardcore pornographic film in Japan. Though Takechi is largely unknown in Japan today, he was influential in both the cinema and the theater during his lifetime, and his innovations in kabuki were felt for decades. He also helped shape the future of the pink film in Japan through his battles against governmental censorship, earning him the titles, "The Father of Pink" and "The Father of Japanese Porn." Tetsuji Takechi was born Tetsuji Kawaguchi in Osaka on 10 December 1912 to a family headed by a wealthy industrialist. He studied economics at Kyoto National University and graduated in 1936. Takechi first became known for his criticism and theoretical writings on th
