Tetsuya Takehora studied at the Japan Academy of Moving Images (日本映画学校),[1] founded by director Shōhei Imamura in 1975 as the Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film.[2] He entered the film industry as an assistant director at Ōkura Pictures (OP Eiga), in which capacity he worked for five years.[3] He made his directorial debut with Peep Show (人妻の秘密 覗き覗かれ) (2004),[4] and won the Best New Director award at the Pink Grand Prix the same year for Picture Book of a Beautiful Young Girl: Soaked Uniform (美少女図鑑 汚された制服, Bishōjozukan: abusareta seifuku).[5] Takehora's films are generally in a light, erotic-comic vein, and have proven popular with pink film audiences and critics.[3] He was given the Best Director title the following year for Lustful Hitchhiker: Sought Wife (2005),[6] and a four-film career retrospective show at the third annual R18 Love Cinema Showcase held at Tokyo's Theatre PolePole Higashi-Nakano in 2006.[3]
Award-winning films
"Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix
2004 9th place: Picture Book of a Beautiful Young Girl: Soaked Uniform (美少女図鑑 汚された制服, Bishōjozukan: abusareta seifuku)
Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 331–332, 362. ISBN978-1-903254-54-7.
Japanese
竹洞哲也 たけほら・てつや (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-06-22.