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
- The Way: Man of the White Porcelain ... (Director)
- Kamihate Store ... (Producer)
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
- Mahjong Legend: Crying Dragon 3 ... (Director)
- Mahjong Legend: Crying Dragon 2 ... (Director)
- Jinrai: The Boss's Ransom ... (Director)
- Seraphim Night ... (Director)
- Known As! Pissken ... (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)
- Death of the Lion Kings ... (Director)
- Human Scramble: Delinquent ... (Director)
1992
- Can You Collect It? ... (Director)
- Dioxin from Fish! ... (Story)
1991
- Door II: Tokyo Diary ... (Director)
- Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet ... (Director)
- Russian Roulette: The Last Bet ... (Director)
- Summer of the Lion Kings ... (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
- Tattoo ... (Director)
- Wolf: Running Is Sex ... (Director)
- Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex as Film crew
- So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex ... (Producer)
- Rope for a Uniform ... (Director)
- Bondage Cell ... (Director)
- Slave Virgin Eros ... (Director)
1981
- Office Lady Experience: Pregnancy ... (Director)
- Document porno: Chikan jôshûsha ... (Director)
- Kahanshin report: Atsuku kanjiru ... (Director)
- Document porn: Zetsugi ni naku ... (Director)
- Onna kyōshi o hagu ... (Director)
- Attacked Woman ... (Screenplay)
- Female Teacher: Chains and Bondage ... (Director)
- Orgy Roommates: Rape in Turn ... (Director)
- Bondage and Cage ... (Director)
- Sex Crime: Blackmail and Rape ... (Director)
- Tying the Newlywed Wife ... (Director)
- Perverted Pleasure: Forbidden Lips ... (Director)
- Craving Pleasure: Attack a Virgin ... (Director)
- Bizarre Bondage Wife ... (Director)
- Japanese Lynching ... (Director)
- Female Prison: Rape! ... (Director)
- 18 Years Old: Deep Bliss ... (Director)
1980
- Setsuko no kokuhaku: Watashi o daite! ... (Director)
- Filthy Pussycat ... (Director)
- Married Woman Torture ... (Director)
- Onna: Tarashikomi ... (Director)
- Rampage for the Sexual Assault ... (Director)
- Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning ... (Director)
- Shôjo kinbaku ... (Director)
- Girl Mistress ... (Director)
- Women's Prison Bondage ... (Director)
- Bondage Sacrifice ... (Director)
- Shikijō onna: Kyōretsu shita zawari ... (Director)
- Ijôna yubi: Yamete! ... (Director)
- Prostitution Juvenile Wife ... (Director)
- Monzetsu hikô: Nikushin ... (Director)
- Brutal! Rape Case ... (Director)
1979
- Semi-dokyumento: Hakuchû no henshitsu ma ... (Director)
- Sukyandaru: Etsuraku no hada ... (Director)
- Wet She-Chat ... (Director)
- The Women's Prison Lesbian Hell ... (Director)
- Woman of the South Seas: Ruthless Bondage ... (Director)
- Holy Virgin Bondage ... (Screenplay)
- Female Teacher: Exposed ... (Screenplay)
- Rope and Bondage ... (Director)
- Bondage Sex Maniac ... (Director)
- Prey ... (Screenplay)
- Virgin Rope Makeover ... (Screenplay)
- Whip and Bondage ... (Director)
- Attack the Girl! ... (Director)
- Semi-dokyumento: Nise fujinkai ... (Director)
- Bondage Affair ... (Director)
- Bizarre Rose Hell ... (Screenplay)
1978
- Women Prison: Vigilante Justice ... (Director)
- Another Female Teacher: Tight Bondage ... (Director)
- Bondage Female Coed ... (Director)
- Japanese Torture ... (Director)
- Rope and Woman ... (Screenplay)
- Female Teacher in Agony ... (Screenplay)
- Bondage Pervert Bride ... (Screenplay)
- Tie Up the Girl! ... (Screenplay)
- The Song of the Lady Musashino: Inmai ... (Screenplay)
- Profound Experience: Sucking the Pussycat ... (Director)
1977
- Red Sex: Sexual Battery Case ... (Director)
- Seduce the Sisters ... (Director)
- Shadows in Color, Eyes for Eyes, Sexual Sadism for Reckless Lust. ... (Director)
- Secret Chronicle: Prostitute Sacrifice ... (Screenplay)
- Naomi Tani Tied Up! ... (Screenplay)
- Kill the Flower Bud! ... (Director)
1976
- Hatsujô ... (Screenplay)
- Delinquency Record: Girl Prostitution ... (Director)
- Young wife, first night ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Law of the Delta Zone ... (Screenplay)
- Shinjuku Maria
1972
- Woman Assault Escapee ... (Director)
- Ambition in The Mirror ... (Assistant Director)
1971
- Female Crest Pleasure ... (Assistant Director)
- Bōkōma ... (Assistant Director)
- Body Wash ... (First Assistant Director)
1970
- Ironoyu: Rajo Hyakutai ... (Assistant Director)