Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Kazuhiko Hasegawa | |
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Born | Kamo District, Hiroshima, Japan | 5 January 1946
Occupation(s) | Film director, Screenwriter |
Years active | 1972– |
Kazuhiko Hasegawa (
Life and career
[edit]Hasegawa began his career in film at Nikkatsu in the early 1970s as a scriptwriter on such Roman porno projects as Chūsei Sone's Love Bandit Rat Man (1972), Yukihiro Sawada's Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland (1973) and Tatsumi Kumashiro's Evening Primrose (1974). He also served as Assistant Director on the 1972 Woman on the Night Train and several other Roman porno films for Nikkatsu.[2][3][4]
After leaving Nikkatsu, he made his debut as a director in the October 1976 The Youth Killer, produced by ATG, a provocative study of alienation focusing on a young killer. In 1979, he directed his second film, the black comedy The Man Who Stole the Sun,[4] which won him the Best Director award at the 1979 Yokohama Film Festival.[1] This was Hasegawa's last film and although he never returned to directing, he was one of the founding members of the Director's Company in 1982 where he devoted himself to helping young directors.[3][4]
He has also occasionally appeared as an actor, including a role in Banmei Takahashi's 1982 Wolf (
Filmography
[edit]- The Youth Killer (
青春 の殺人 者 , Seishun no satsujinsha) (1976) - The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
References
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第 1回 ヨコハマ映画 祭 1979年 日本 映画 個人 賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 9 January 2010. - ^ a b
長谷川 和彦 (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 14 November 2011. - ^ a b Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
- ^ a b c d Jacoby, Alexander (2008). A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-1-933330-53-2.