Banmei Takahashi

He joined pink film pioneer Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio in 1975, working as a script-writer until Wakamatsu produced Takahashi's second film, Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976). For the next few years Takahashi averaged five films annually at Wakamatsu's studio, until Takahashi left to start his own production company in 1979. Takahashi married Nikkatsu Roman Porno and pink film actress Keiko Sekine who then changed her name to Keiko Takahashi and starred in several of Takahashi's films. Sekine appeared in Takahashi's Tattoo Ari (1982), a mainstream box-office hit which won Takahashi the award for Best Director at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival. Takahashi's 1994 film Ai no Shinsekai, inspired by photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's work, is significant as the first Japanese production to play uncensored and unfogged domestically.

• Name — Banmei Takahashi • Born — 10 May 1949 • Birthplace — Nara, Nara, Japan • Occupation — Film director • Years Active — 1975–present • Spouse — Keiko Takahashi

• Escaped Rapist Criminal (1972) • Delinquent File: Juvenile Prostitution (1976) • Girl Mistress (1980) • Wolf (1982) • Tattoo Ari (1982) • Door (1988) • Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet (1990) • Door II: Tokyo Diary (1991) • Human Scramble: Delinquent (1993) • Ai no Shinsekai (1994) • Hibi (2005) • Oka o Koete (2008) • Zen (2009) • BOX: The Hakamada Case (2010) • Made in Japan: Kora! (2011) • Takumi: The Man Beyond Borders (2012) • Blood Bead (2015) • Peaceful Death (2021) • No Place to Go (2022) • I Am Kirishima (2025) • Euthanasia Special Zone (2026)