Banmei Takahashi
Born: 1949-05-10 in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Directing
Biography
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).
Filmography
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)
- Living Rights ... (Screenplay)
2013
- Miroku ... (Producer)
2012
- Kamihate Store ... (Producer)
- The Way: Man of the White Porcelain ... (Director)
2011
- Made in Japan: Kora! ... (Director)
2010
- Box: The Hakamada Case ... (Director)
2009
- Zen ... (Director)
2008
- Oka wo koete ... (Director)
2007
- The Graduates ... (Production Supervisor)
2005
- Hibi ... (Director)
2004
- Pink Ribbon as Self
2001
- Rain of Light ... (Director)
1998
- Ooinaru kan bonno ... (Director)
1997
- Assault Rakugaki Fools ... (Director)
1996
- Jinrai: The Boss's Ransom ... (Director)
- Seraphim Night ... (Director)
- Known As! Pissken ... (Director)
- Mahjong Legend: Crying Dragon 3 ... (Director)
- Mahjong Legend: Crying Dragon 2 ... (Director)
1994
- A New Love in Tokyo ... (Director)
- Emperor of Evil ... (Director)
- Can you collect it? Complete ... (Director)
1993
- Can you collect it? 2 ... (Director)
- Human Scramble: Delinquent ... (Director)
- Death of the Lion Kings ... (Director)
1992
- Dioxin from Fish! ... (Story)
- Can You Collect It? ... (Director)
1991
- Door II: Tokyo Diary ... (Director)
- Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet ... (Director)
- Summer of the Lion Kings ... (Director)
- Russian Roulette: The Last Bet ... (Director)
1990
- Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet ... (Director)
1989
- Dangerous Stories ... (Director)
1986
- 三姉妹探偵団 ... (Director)
1985
- A Message for Maggie ... (Director)
1984
- The Crazy Family ... (Producer)
1983
- The Rikidōzan ... (Director)
1982
- Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex as Film crew
- Tattoo ... (Director)
- Wolf: Running Is Sex ... (Director)
- So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex ... (Producer)
- Bondage Cell ... (Director)
- Rope for a Uniform ... (Director)
- Slave Virgin Eros ... (Director)
1981
- Onna kyōshi o hagu ... (Director)
- Tying the Newlywed Wife ... (Director)
- Attacked Woman ... (Screenplay)
- Female Teacher: Chains and Bondage ... (Director)
- Bondage and Cage ... (Director)
- Kahanshin report: Atsuku kanjiru ... (Director)
- Document porno: Chikan jôshûsha ... (Director)
- Office Lady Experience: Pregnancy ... (Director)
- Document porn: Zetsugi ni naku ... (Director)
- Japanese Lynching ... (Director)
- Sex Crime: Blackmail and Rape ... (Director)
- Craving Pleasure: Attack a Virgin ... (Director)
- 18 Years Old: Deep Bliss ... (Director)
- Female Prison: Rape! ... (Director)
- Orgy Roommates: Rape in Turn ... (Director)
- Bizarre Bondage Wife ... (Director)
- Perverted Pleasure: Forbidden Lips ... (Director)
1980
- Shôjo abareru ... (Director)
- Married Woman Torture ... (Director)
- Girl Mistress ... (Director)
- Shôjo kinbaku ... (Director)
- Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning ... (Director)
- Onna: Tarashikomi ... (Director)
- Brutal! Rape Case ... (Director)
- Bondage Sacrifice ... (Director)
- Setsuko no kokuhaku: Watashi o daite! ... (Director)
- Filthy Pussycat ... (Director)
- Women's Prison Bondage ... (Director)
- Ijôna yubi: Yamete! ... (Director)
- Prostitution Juvenile Wife ... (Director)
- Rampage for the Sexual Assault ... (Director)
- Monzetsu hikô: Nikushin ... (Director)
- Shikijō onna: Kyōretsu shita zawari ... (Director)
1979
- Holy Virgin Bondage ... (Screenplay)
- The Women's Prison Lesbian Hell ... (Director)
- Bondage Sex Maniac ... (Director)
- Whip and Bondage ... (Director)
- Sukyandaru: Etsuraku no hada ... (Director)
- Semi-dokyumento: Hakuchû no henshitsu ma ... (Director)
- Virgin Rope Makeover ... (Screenplay)
- Semi-dokyumento: Nise fujinkai ... (Director)
- Bondage Affair ... (Director)
- Female Teacher: Exposed ... (Screenplay)
- Attack the Girl! ... (Director)
- Rope and Bondage ... (Director)
- Woman of the South Seas: Ruthless Bondage ... (Director)
- Wet She-Chat ... (Director)
- Prey ... (Screenplay)
- Bizarre Rose Hell ... (Screenplay)
1978
- Women Prison: Vigilante Justice ... (Director)
- Another Female Teacher: Tight Bondage ... (Director)
- Bondage Female Coed ... (Director)
- Japanese Torture ... (Director)
- Female Teacher in Agony ... (Screenplay)
- Tie Up the Girl! ... (Screenplay)
- Rope and Woman ... (Screenplay)
- Bondage Pervert Bride ... (Screenplay)
- Profound Experience: Sucking the Pussycat ... (Director)
- The Song of the Lady Musashino: Inmai ... (Screenplay)
1977
- Secret Chronicle: Prostitute Sacrifice ... (Screenplay)
- Red Sex: Sexual Battery Case ... (Director)
- Naomi Tani Tied Up! ... (Screenplay)
- Seduce the Sisters ... (Director)
- Shadows in Color, Eyes for Eyes, Sexual Sadism for Reckless Lust. ... (Director)
- Kill the Flower Bud! ... (Director)
1976
- Hatsujô ... (Screenplay)
- Delinquency Record: Girl Prostitution ... (Director)
- Young wife, first night ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Shinjuku Maria
- Law of the Delta Zone ... (Screenplay)
1972
- Ambition in The Mirror ... (Assistant Director)
- Woman Assault Escapee ... (Director)
1971
- Female Crest Pleasure ... (Assistant Director)
- Body Wash ... (First Assistant Director)
- Bōkōma ... (Assistant Director)
1970
- Ironoyu: Rajo Hyakutai ... (Assistant Director)