Tetsuya Takehora

is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Tetsuya Takehora studied at the , 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 (2004), and won the Best New Director award at the Pink Grand Prix the same year for . 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 PolePole Higashi-Nakano in 2006.

Award-winning films

"Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix

• 2004 9th place:
• 2005 4th place:
• 2005 Honorable Mention:
• 2006 1st place:
• 2006 2nd place:
• 2007 9th place (tie):
• 2008 3rd place:
• 2008 9th place:
• 2009 8th place:

Pinky Ribbon Awards

• 2006 Gold Prize:

Bibliography

English

Japanese

References

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