Shuji Kataoka

Shūji Kataoka
Born  Shūji Kataoka
(1950-11-23) November 23, 1950[1]
Hokkaidō, Japan
Occupation Film Director
Screenwriter
Years active 1983–present

Shūji Kataoka (片岡修二 Kataoka Shūji) aka Yasui Shūchi[2] is a Japanese director and screenwriter primarily known for his work in pink films but who has also worked in adult videos (AV) and in mainstream film.

Life and career

Kataoka was born in Hokkaido on November 23, 1950.[3] He studied at the College of Economics at Kanto Gakuin University but dropped out before graduation.[1] In the early 1980s he began to work at producer-director Kan Mukai's Shishi Productions.[1][3][4] At first he worked as an assistant director for Mukai and Yōjirō Takita[1] and then released his debut film as a director in 1983, Yokoku Bōkō: Yaru! Sasu!,[1] the first of a series of action films starring Usagi Asō distributed by the Toei Company.[5][6]

Since then he has made many action pink films, and has gone on to direct mainstream movies and V-Cinema.[3] At the Pink Grand Prix for 1988 Kataoka's Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting was awarded Best Film, and Kataoka was given the awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay.[7]

Partial filmography

Bibliography

English

Japanese

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 片岡修二(かたおか しゅうじ) (in Japanese). Directors Guild of Japan. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  2. Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 382. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
  3. 1 2 3 "Shuji Kataoka". Pinkeiga.com. Retrieved 2010-11-02. External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. Sharp, p. 52
  5. Weisser, Thomas; Mihara Weisser, Yuko (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 114–115, 421. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  6. 片岡修二 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  7. "Best Ten of 1988 1988年度ベストテン <第1回ピンク大賞>" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  8. 片岡修二 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-01-07.

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Awards and achievements
Pink Grand Prix
Preceded by
New Award
Pink Grand Prix for Best Director
Shūji Kataoka

1988
Succeeded by
Masahiro Kasai


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