Banmei Takahashi

Known for: Directing
Born: May 10, 1949, Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Movies: 125

Director, screenwriter, and producer. Began his career in the world of pinku-eiga, directing and collaborating with established directors such as Mamoru Watanabe and Koji Wakamatsu. Along with the aforementioned directors, Takahashi helped to develop the talents of actors such as Ren Osugi and Shiro Shimomoto. He also worked as a writer on a couple episodes of the 'Lupin the 3rd' television series. With films such as 'Tattoo Ari' he also broke into more mainstream endeavors. Married to Keiko Takahashi (née Sekine).

Upcoming Banmei Takahashi Movies

Yuka Asagiri: Bound and Gagged!

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Female Torture & Swapping

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Best-Known Movies

7.1

The Crazy Family

1984

6.1

Door

1988

7.1

Zen

2009

5.7

A New Love in Tokyo

1994

6.2

Door II: Tokyo Diary

1991

6.4

Peaceful Death

2020

6.5

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

1990

5.7

Tattoo

1982

5.4

Attacked Woman

1981

6.0

No Place to Go

2022

Filmography

2004	Pink Ribbon	Self
1982	Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex	Film crew
1975	Shinjuku Maria

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	Euthanasia Special Zone	Director
2025	I Am Kirishima	Director
2022	No Place to Go	Director
2020	Peaceful Death	Director
2016	God in Jail	Director
2015	Red Ball	Director, Screenplay
2015	Living Rights	Screenplay
2013	Miroku	Producer
2012	Kamihate Store	Producer
2012	The Way: Man of the White Porcelain	Director
2011	Made in Japan: Kora!	Director
2010	Box: The Hakamada Case	Director, Screenplay
2009	Zen	Director, Screenplay
2008	Oka wo koete	Director
2005	Hibi	Director, Screenplay
2001	Rain of Light	Director
1998	Ooinaru kan bonno	Screenplay, Director
1997	Assault Rakugaki Fools	Director
1996	Jinrai: The Boss's Ransom	Director
1996	Known As! Pissken	Director, Screenplay
1996	Seraphim Night	Director, Screenplay
1996	Mahjong Legend: Crying Dragon 2	Director
1996	Mahjong Legend: Crying Dragon 3	Director
1994	A New Love in Tokyo	Director, Writer
1994	Emperor of Evil	Director, Screenplay
1994	Can you collect it? Complete	Director
1993	Can you collect it? 2	Director
1993	Human Scramble: Delinquent	Director
1993	Death of the Lion Kings	Director, Screenplay
1992	Can You Collect It?	Director, Screenplay
1991	Russian Roulette: The Last Bet	Director
1991	Door II: Tokyo Diary	Director
1991	Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet	Director, Screenplay
1991	Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love	Producer
1991	Summer of the Lion Kings	Director
1990	Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet	Director
1989	Dangerous Stories	Director
1988	あじさい色のレディ	Director
1988	Door	Writer, Director
1986	三姉妹探偵団	Director
1985	A Message for Maggie	Director, Screenplay
1984	The Crazy Family	Producer
1983	The Rikidōzan	Director
1982	Wolf: Running Is Sex	Director, Producer
1982	So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex	Producer
1982	Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex	Producer
1982	Rope for a Uniform	Director
1982	Tattoo	Director
1982	Slave Virgin Eros	Director
1982	Bondage Cell	Director
1981	Onna kyōshi o hagu	Director
1981	Craving Pleasure: Attack a Virgin	Director, Screenplay
1981	Attacked Woman	Director, Screenplay
1981	Tying the Newlywed Wife	Director
1981	Office Lady Experience: Pregnancy	Director
1981	Document porno: Chikan jôshûsha	Director
1981	Female Teacher: Chains and Bondage	Director
1981	Sex Crime: Blackmail and Rape	Director
1981	Orgy Roommates: Rape in Turn	Director
1981	Document porn: Zetsugi ni naku	Director
1981	18 Years Old: Deep Bliss	Director
1981	Female Prison: Rape!	Director
1981	Perverted Pleasure: Forbidden Lips	Director, Screenplay
1981	Kahanshin report: Atsuku kanjiru	Director
1981	Japanese Lynching	Director
1981	Bizarre Bondage Wife	Director
1981	Bondage and Cage	Director
1980	Ijôna yubi: Yamete!	Director, Screenplay
1980	Shikijō onna: Kyōretsu shita zawari	Director, Screenplay
1980	Girl Mistress	Director
1980	Brutal! Rape Case	Director
1980	Women's Prison Bondage	Director
1980	Onna: Tarashikomi	Director
1980	Shôjo kinbaku	Director
1980	Monzetsu hikô: Nikushin	Screenplay, Director
1980	Married Woman Torture	Director
1980	Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning	Director
1980	Rampage for the Sexual Assault	Director
1980	Prostitution Juvenile Wife	Director, Screenplay
1980	Filthy Pussycat	Director
1980	Setsuko no kokuhaku: Watashi o daite!	Screenplay, Director
1980	Bondage Sacrifice	Director
1980	Shôjo abareru	Director
1979	Bondage Sex Maniac	Director
1979	Sukyandaru: Etsuraku no hada	Director, Screenplay
1979	The Women's Prison Lesbian Hell	Screenplay, Director
1979	Wet She-Chat	Director
1979	Attack the Girl!	Director, Screenplay
1979	Prey	Screenplay
1979	Virgin Rope Makeover	Screenplay
1979	Bondage Affair	Director, Screenplay
1979	Semi-dokyumento: Hakuchû no henshitsu ma	Director, Screenplay
1979	Female Teacher: Exposed	Screenplay
1979	Whip and Bondage	Director
1979	Rope and Bondage	Director
1979	Semi-dokyumento: Nise fujinkai	Director
1979	Bizarre Rose Hell	Screenplay
1979	Holy Virgin Bondage	Screenplay
1979	Woman of the South Seas: Ruthless Bondage	Director
1978	Bondage Female Coed	Director
1978	Women Prison: Vigilante Justice	Screenplay, Director
1978	Profound Experience: Sucking the Pussycat	Director
1978	Female Teacher in Agony	Screenplay
1978	Japanese Torture	Director, Screenplay
1978	Bondage Pervert Bride	Screenplay
1978	Another Female Teacher: Tight Bondage	Director, Screenplay
1978	The Song of the Lady Musashino: Inmai	Screenplay
1978	Tie Up the Girl!	Screenplay
1978	Rope and Woman	Screenplay
1977	Seduce the Sisters	Director
1977	Naomi Tani Tied Up!	Screenplay
1977	Kill the Flower Bud!	Director, Screenplay
1977	Secret Chronicle: Prostitute Sacrifice	Screenplay
1977	Red Sex: Sexual Battery Case	Director
1977	Shadows in Color, Eyes for Eyes, Sexual Sadism for Reckless Lust	Director
1976	Delinquency Record: Girl Prostitution	Director
1976	Hatsujô	Screenplay
1976	Young wife, first night	Screenplay
1975	Shinjuku Maria	Screenplay, Writer
1975	Law of the Delta Zone	Screenplay
1973	Gôkan ka wakan ka: Bôkô ma no shuki	Director
1972	Woman Assault Escapee	Director, Screenplay

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