Yuji Sakamoto

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Yuji Sakamoto
Born Japan
Occupation Film director
Years active about 1994–

Yuji Sakamoto (坂本優二 Sakamoto Yūji) is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has directed more than 250 videos during his career,[1] primarily with the Alice Japan studio.[2]

Life and career

Sakamoto began directing in the AV industry at least as early as November 1994 with the video Wet Venus, starring Saori Miyauchi, for the Media Station Cosmos label.[3] The next month, December 1994, marked the first video directed by Sakamoto listed at the Alice Japan archive. This work, Indecent Eye (淫ら眼), starred Shana (釈那) as a 900-year-old witch who has sex with and then kills men to retain her youth.[4] This would begin Sakamoto's long association with Alice Japan and be the first of the more than 170 videos that he had directed for that company through 2011, twenty-eight of them featuring superstar AV Idol Yuma Asami.[2]

By 1995, in addition to his Alice Japan videos, he was also working for Max-A,[1] another company associated with Alice Japan and Media Station in the Kuki group.[5] One of his Max-A videos was the October 1996 Pin Pin Girl for the Calen label, which marked the AV debut of actress Jun Kusanagi.[6][7] He also presided over the AV debuts of Asami Jō for Alice Japan in 1995[8][9] and Akira Watase in the May 2000 Media Station release Venus.[10][11]

In a departure from the AV field, Sakamoto wrote and directed the V-Cinema drama Message: Hakanaki shoujo no shi (Ｍｅｓｓａｇｅ　儚なき少女の詩), which was released in April 1999.[12][13]

When the S1 No. 1 Style studio was launched in November 2004, Sakamoto was one of their inaugural directors along with Hideto Aki, [Jo]Style and KINGDOM.[14] Sakamoto has also directed for other major Japanese AV studios, including Soft On Demand (SOD), Moodyz and Attackers.[1] Among other work at SOD, he directed two entries in the company's "Masturbation Aid" series, starring Sally Yoshino and Nao Oikawa.[15] He also supervised three episodes in the Attackers studio "Lady Panther" series, Lady Panther Vol. 4 with Riko Tachibana (May 2006), Lady Panther Vol. 5 with An Nanba (Feb. 2007), and Lady Panther Vol. 6 starring Maria Ozawa and Hikari Hino (Jan. 2008).[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Yuji Sakamoto 坂本優二". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  2. 1 2 "Studio Alice Japan". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  3. ↑ "Wet Venus". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  4. ↑ 淫ら眼 (in Japanese). www.alicejapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  5. ↑ "THE CITY Participants". Archived from the original on 1997-01-08. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  6. ↑ J., Lee (May 9, 2006). "Biography". www.asian-sirens.com. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
  7. ↑ "Pin Pin Girl". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  8. ↑ "1995" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2007-07-21. External link in |publisher= (help)
  9. ↑ "素肌ジェンヌ" (in Japanese). Alice Japan Official Website. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
  10. ↑ "2000" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2007-07-21. External link in |publisher= (help)
  11. ↑ "Venus". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  12. ↑ Ｍｅｓｓａｇｅ　儚なき少女の詩 (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  13. ↑ "Message: Hakanaki shoujo no shi". IMDb. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
  14. ↑ Otsubo, Kemuta (November 26, 2004). "Ｓ級新人８人についてKINGDOM監督に聞いてみました　新メーカーＳ１・新人大解剖！" (in Japanese). AllAbout. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  15. ↑ "Yuji Sakamoto with studio Soft On Demand". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
  16. ↑ 監督別検索：坂本優二 (in Japanese). www.attackers.net. Retrieved 2011-11-02.

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