Kei Morikawa
Kei Morikawa is a Japanese mainstream film and adult video (AV) director. Over a career of more than 20 years in adult entertainment, he directed in excess of 200 adult videos.
Kei Morikawa
- Name
- Kei Morikawa
- Occupation
- Film director
- Born
- Kei Morikawa was born on 3 May 1964. · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kei Morikawa is a Japanese mainstream film and adult video (AV) director. Over a career of more than 20 years in adult entertainment, he directed in excess of 200 adult videos.
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Kei Morikawa (born 1964) is a film director, impresario and screenwriter, of Japanese nationality. The film director was born in Tokyo. Languages used include Japanese.
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• Name — Kei Morikawa • Occupation — Film director • Years Active — about 1989 –
Adult video (AV) director
Adult video (AV) director
Morikawa started directing adult videos at least as early as 1989 with Shita Namazuri starring Asako Sakura for the Alice Japan studio. In addition to Alice Japan, throughout the decade of the 1990s, Morikawa also directed AVs for several other "Viderin" companies including VIP, Atlas21, h.m.p., Kuki, Media Station and Max-A. During this time, he worked with early AV Idols Rui Sakuragi, Aika Miura, Yuri Komuro and Bunko Kanazawa. Outside the AV industry, Morikawa was credited as planner for Rokurō Mochizuki's 1991 debut mainstream film Skinless Night. Also in the 1990s, Morikawa wrote and directed three softcore erotic V-cinema works, the comedy AV joyū shigan for Daiei in September 1993, the drama Chika tenshi ga tōrisugiru kisetsu in September 1998 and OL Kabushikigaisha in February 1999 (co-written with Masato Ishioka). Morikawa continued working with Alice Japan and Atlas21 in the 2000s but he also began directing for some of the newer independent AV studios such as Moodyz, SOD and by early 2006, S1 where he became one of their leading directors. Morikawa directed videos starring a number of prominent AV actresses including Nao Oikawa, Kokoro Amano, Nana Natsume, Sora Aoi, Sasa Handa, Kaede Matsushima and Akiho Yoshizawa. In 2001, he had a small role playing an AV Director in Masato Ishioka's debut mainstream film Scoutman depicting the adult video industry that both Ishioka and Morikawa worked in.
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Kei Morikawa is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded with the occupation screenwriter. Recorded with the occupation impresario. Recorded as film director, screenwriter and impresario.
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Chika 天使が通り過ぎる季節 (1998) Kei Morikawa is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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Kei Morikawa was born at Tokyo.
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In 2008, Morikawa served as Assistant Director on Toshiyuki Morioka's film Koneko no namida released by Kadokawa Pictures and in 2012 made his debut as a mainstream film director (and cinematographer) with 2-channel no Noroi Shin Gekijoban: Honki. This horror feature was a theatrical sequel to a DVD movie, 2-channel no Noroi Gekijoban, produced in 2011, and continues its theme of a cursed website. The film stars Mariya Suzuki from the Japanese girls singing group AKB48 and was released in Japan by JollyRoger on June 2, 2012. Morikawa continued his mainstream directing career with the February 2014 horror film Ekusute Musume Gekijoban, the focus of the horror being hair extensions torn from living women. The film starred another alumni of AKB48, Tomomi Nakatsuka. At the 2015 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, Morikawa was awarded the Grand Prize in the Off Theater Competition for his film Makeup Room, detailing the offstage drama in the makeup room at the shooting of an adult video.
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- 1.Urabon Navigator. Shita Namazuri.
- 2.Urabon Navigator. Profile Kei Morikawa 森川圭.
- 3.AllCinema.
- 4.JMDB.
- 5.Urabon Navigator. Studio S1.
- 6.MovieWalker. PAIN ペイン.
- 7.MovieWalker.
- 8.IMDb. 2-channel no Noroi Shin Gekijoban: Honki (2012). 2 June 2012.
- 9.MovieWalker.
- 10.Ouellette, Kevin. Suzuka Morita and Mariya Suzuki to star in two new horror movies. Nippon Cinema. May 10, 2012.
- 11.MovieWalker.
- 12.O'Keeffe, Christopher. Yubari 2015: MAKEUP ROOM Takes Top Award In Fantastic Off Theatre Competition. Twith Film. February 25, 2015.
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