Tetsuji Takechi
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: December 10, 1912
Day of Death: July 26, 1988 (76 years old)
Place of Birth: Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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.
