Shuji Kataoka

Shūji Kataoka

　
Born 　Shūji Kataoka
November 23, 1950 (1950-11-23) (age 61)[1]
Hokkaidō, Japan
Occupation Film Director
Screenwriter
Years active 1983-

Shūji Kataoka (片岡修二 Kataoka Shūji?) aka Yasui Shūchi[2] is Japanese Pink film director and screenwriter. He was born in Hokkaido on November 23, 1950.[3] He studied at Kanto Gakuin University, but dropped out before graduation in order to work at producer-director Kan Mukai's Shishi Productions.[3] At Shishi he worked under Mukai and Yōjirō Takita.[1] Kataoka's first pink film, Yokoku Bōkō: Yaru! Sasu! was released in 1983.[1] 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.[4]

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Partial filmography

Bibliography

English

Japanese

External links

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "片岡修二（かたおか　しゅうじ）" (in Japanese). Director's Guild of Japan. http://www.dgj.or.jp/members/detail.php?id=137&sig=f32c48540e43b6f9897f0bd5c27a0d8c. Retrieved 2010-01-07. 
  2. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 382. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 
  3. ^ a b c "Shuji Kataoka". Pinkeiga.com. http://www.pinkeiga.com/films/bios/shuji-kataoka/. Retrieved 2010-11-02. 
  4. ^ "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. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1988.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-16. 
  5. ^ "片岡修二" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0344190.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-07. 
Awards and achievements
Pink Grand Prix
Preceded by
New Award		 Pink Grand Prix for Best Director
Shūji Kataoka
1988		 Succeeded by
Masahiro Kasai