Director. Worked as an associate director under several directors at Nikkatsu in the 1950s and 60s, including many AD roles on the films of director Seijun Suzuki. He then was promoted to director and went on to become a notable, and fairly active contributor to Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.

KNOWN FOR

East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
1998
Underworld Beauty
1958
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
Room of Shame
1982
Voice Without a Shadow
1958
Eight Hours of Terror
1957
Take Aim at the Police Van
1960
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1960
Young Breasts
1958
Age of Nudity
1959
Late Bloom: Campus Erotica
1976
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Directing
50
1998
East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
Director
1984
Watashi no naka no shōfu
Director
1983
Nozoki
Director
1982
Yami ni dakarete
Director
1982
Room of Shame
Director
1980
Woman's Trail: Wet Path
Director
1979
Secret of One Summer
Director
1978
Junko's Bliss
Director
1978
Young Beast: Secret Pleasures
Director
1977
Sensei no tsushinbo
Director
1976
Competition: Married Couples Secret Technique
Director
1976
Sachiko no sachi
Director
1976
Late Bloom: Campus Erotica
Director
1975
Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
Director
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
Director
1975
Housewife's Experience: Tenement
Director
1974
Joshi daisei: Karisome no tsuma
Director
1973
Season of Lust: A Trail of Honey from an 18 Year Old
Director
1973
Handbook on Love
Director
1972
Maruhi: Benten gokaichō
Director
1971
Monk's Paradise
Director
1970
Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
Director
1970
Sign of the Jack
Director
1969
We Sell It Because It Sells
Director
1967
The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
Director
1967
Return to Kanto Prison
Director
1966
Tomo o okuru uta
Assistant Director
1966
Fearless Comrades
Assistant Director
1966
Return of the Wolf
Assistant Director
1963
I Have the Sun in My Back
Assistant Director
1961
Living by Karate
Assistant Director
1961
Tokyo Knights
Assistant Director
1960
Smashing the 0-Line
Assistant Director
1960
Take Aim at the Police Van
Assistant Director
1960
The Sleeping Beast Within
Assistant Director
1960
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Assistant Director
1959
Love Letter
Assistant Director
1959
The Ghost of Iwojima
Assistant Director
1959
Passport to Darkness
Assistant Director
1959
Age of Nudity
Assistant Director
1958
Young Breasts
Assistant Director
1958
The Boy Who Came Back
Assistant Director
1958
Underworld Beauty
Assistant Director
1958
Voice Without a Shadow
Assistant Director
1957
Eight Hours of Terror
Assistant Director
1957
Inn of the Floating Weeds
Assistant Director
1957
Devil Flesh
Assistant Director
1957
The Naked Woman and the Gun
Assistant Director
1956
Pure Emotions of the Sea
Assistant Director
1956
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Assistant Director