Yumi Yoshiyuki is an actress,and director who is one of the most productive female movie director in Japanese film history. She made her Pink Eiga acting debut in 1993. In 1997 she made her mainstream debut in legendary filmmaker Akio Jissoji’s “The D-Slope Murder Case.” For her performance in this film, she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Yokohama Film Festival. This lead to more mainstream work including even Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill: Vol 1)! In 1996, Yumi moved behind the camera to direct her first film, “Chronic Rutting Adultery Wife,” which won the Best New Director award at the Pink Eiga Grand Prix. In 2011, she was also invited to New Horizon International Film Festival in Poland to screen two films that she directed: “Miss Peach” and “Widow Apartment.”

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Yukio Kitazawa is a veteran Pink Eiga director. He got his start while he was a university student working as an assistant director on legendary film directors Koji Wakamatsu and Satoru Kobayashi’s films.

Yukio Kitazawa made his directing debut in 1978 with the Pink Eiga production, “Vagabond Sex.” For this work, he won the Best New Director Award at the Zoom Up Film Festival. Since then, he has worked in various filmmaking formats and genres including Pink Eiga, Nikkatsu Roman Porno, direct-to-video productions, as well as TV commercial. All told he has directed over 170 feature films!
In 2009, he completed an independently

produced feature film called, “AZA-ARI” (With Bruises). The film was shown to great critical praise and good public response.

Watch Kitazawa’s film Deep Contact here!

Yūji Tajiri was born in a small town in Hokkaido in 1968. His main interest as a youth was watching movies, and he began writing his own film scripts and making 8mm films while a teenager.

Tajiri moved to Tokyo and he began working at the Shishi studio as an assistant director in 1990. Tajiri’s directorial debut was with the 1997 film Go Go Train.
His second film, “Office Lady Love Juice” was chosen as the Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix, and Tajiri was given the Best Director award. Tajiri’s 2004 film, Twitch – You Are My Toy about erotic complications in the photography industry, won the bronze prize at the Pink Grand Prix.

The film also won awards for Best Actress, and Best cinematography.

Watch Tajiri’s film Twitch here!

Academy Award Winning Director Yōjirō Takita entered the film industry through Mukai Productions, where he served as an assistant director. Takita first came to prominence with the long-running, popular light-comic pink film “Groper Train” series, which Takita began directing in 1982. Takita’s 1986 mainstream comedy, “No More Comic Magazines!” received critical praise, and he has produced several popular films since then.

In 2001, he directed “Onmyoji.” It became an international hit and received a prize at The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in 2002. He directed “Onmyoji 2” in 2003.

His 2008 film “Departures” won the Best Foreign Language Film at the U.S. 81st Academy Awards, in an upset over the Israeli Animated documentary.

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Toshiki Satō was born in 1961 and graduated from Nikkatsu Arts School. His debut film was the 1989 pink film drama, The Beast.Adult Video idol Maya Asabuki starred in this film judged “light on drama, but heavy on sex scenes.”
In 1995 Satō made the two-part mainstream Fighting Dragon Story, but continued in the pink film genre after that.
“Lusty Hot Spring” (1998) and “Tokyo Booty Nights” (2007) were highly respected in Pink Eiga genre.

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