| 1912-1988. He is a director of Japanese hard-core films. His important work is "Hakujitsumu (DAYDREAM)" (1964). It is based on the Tanizaki Jun'ichirou's novel. Though it isn't exactly hard-core, he remade it by himself in 1981 and 1987 as hard-core. By the way, He is very strange. He was a kabuki-play director at first. He had ever stood as a candidate on the recommendation of the Liberal Democratic Party. But he spent a working fund for his pleasure and the Liberal Democratic Party brought a suit against him. |