As Director, As Writer
Daydream 2
1987
3.2
Tetsuji Takechi
Acting
Birth Date
December 10, 1912
Place of Birth
Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Date of Death
July 26, 1988
Biography
In the 1960s, Takechi entered the film industry by producing controversial soft-core theatrical pornography. His 1964 film Daydream was the first big-budget, mainstream pink film released in Japan. After the release of his 1965 film Black Snow, the government arrested him on indecency charges. The trial became a public battle over censorship between Japan's intellectuals and the government. Takechi won the lawsuit, enabling the wave of softcore pink films which dominated Japan's domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. In the later 1960s, Takechi produced three more pink films.
