Kei Morikawa

Morikawa started directing adult videos at least as early as 1989 with {{nihongo|Shita Namazuri|舌なまずり}} starring Asako Sakura for the Alice Japan studio.{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/?p=mcard&id=12274|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216234657/http://urabon-navigator.com/?p=mcard&id=12274|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-16|title=Shita Namazuri|accessdate=2013-01-16|publisher=Urabon Navigator}} In addition to Alice Japan, throughout the decade of the 1990s, Morikawa also directed AVs for several other "Viderin" companies including VIP, Atlas21, h.m.p., Kuki, Media Station and Max-A. During this time, he worked with early AV Idols Rui Sakuragi, Aika Miura, Yuri Komuro and Bunko Kanazawa.{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n1908&mode=movies|title=Profile Kei Morikawa 森川圭|accessdate=2013-01-16|publisher=Urabon Navigator|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120909190521/http://www.urabon-navigator.com/profiles/n1908|archive-date=2012-09-09|url-status=dead}}

Outside the AV industry, Morikawa was credited as planner for Rokurō Mochizuki's 1991 debut mainstream film Skinless Night.{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=151363|script-title=ja:スキンレスナイト(1991)|accessdate=2013-01-17|publisher= AllCinema|language=Japanese}} Also in the 1990s, Morikawa wrote and directed three softcore erotic V-cinema works, the comedy {{nihongo|AV joyū shigan|ＡＶ女優志願}} for Daiei in September 1993, the drama {{nihongo|Chika tenshi ga tōrisugiru kisetsu|Ｃｈｉｋａ　天使が通り過ぎる季節}} in September 1998 and {{nihongo|OL Kabushikigaisha|ＯＬ株式会社}} in February 1999 (co-written with Masato Ishioka).{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0757280.htm|script-title=ja:森川圭|accessdate=2013-01-17|publisher= JMDB|language=Japanese}}

Morikawa continued working with Alice Japan and Atlas21 in the 2000s but he also began directing for some of the newer independent AV studios such as Moodyz, SOD and by early 2006, S1 where he became one of their leading directors. Morikawa directed videos starring a number of prominent AV actresses including Nao Oikawa, Kokoro Amano, Nana Natsume, Sora Aoi, Sasa Handa, Kaede Matsushima and Akiho Yoshizawa.{{cite web|url=http://urabon-navigator.com/av/studio/S1|title=Studio S1|accessdate=2013-01-17|publisher= Urabon Navigator}} In 2001, he had a small role playing an AV Director in Masato Ishioka's debut mainstream film Scoutman depicting the adult video industry that both Ishioka and Morikawa worked in.{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv32160/|title=PAIN ペイン|accessdate=2013-01-17|publisher=MovieWalker|language=Japanese}}

In 2008, Morikawa served as Assistant Director on Toshiyuki Morioka's film Koneko no namida released by Kadokawa Pictures{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv36872/|script-title=ja:子猫の涙|accessdate=2013-01-17|publisher=MovieWalker|language=Japanese}} and in 2012 made his debut as a mainstream film director (and cinematographer) with {{nihongo|2-channel no Noroi Shin Gekijoban: Honki|2ちゃんねるの呪い 新劇場版・本危}}. This horror feature was a theatrical sequel to a DVD movie, 2-channel no Noroi Gekijoban, produced in 2011, and continues its theme of a cursed website. The film stars Mariya Suzuki from the Japanese girls singing group AKB48 and was released in Japan by JollyRoger on June 2, 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2400959/|title=2-channel no Noroi Shin Gekijoban: Honki (2012)|date=2 June 2012|accessdate=2013-01-18|publisher= IMDb}}{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv50766/|script-title=ja:2ちゃんねるの呪い 新劇場版・本危|accessdate=2013-01-18|publisher= MovieWalker|language=Japanese}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nipponcinema.com/blog/suzuka-morita-and-mariya-suzuki-to-star-in-two-new-horror-movies|title=Suzuka Morita and Mariya Suzuki to star in two new horror movies|accessdate=2013-01-18|publisher=Nippon Cinema|date=May 10, 2012|last=Ouellette|first=Kevin|archive-date=2013-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516112448/http://www.nipponcinema.com/blog/suzuka-morita-and-mariya-suzuki-to-star-in-two-new-horror-movies|url-status=dead}}

Morikawa continued his mainstream directing career with the February 2014 horror film {{nihongo|Exte Girl The Movie|エクステ娘 劇場版|Ekusute Musume Gekijoban}}, the focus of the horror being hair extensions torn from living women. The film starred another alumni of AKB48, Tomomi Nakatsuka.{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv54985/|script-title=ja:エクステ娘 劇場版|publisher=MovieWalker|language=Japanese|accessdate=2015-02-25}} At the 2015 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, Morikawa was awarded the Grand Prize in the Off Theater Competition for his film Makeup Room, detailing the offstage drama in the makeup room at the shooting of an adult video.{{cite web|url=http://twitchfilm.com/2015/02/yubari-2015-make-room-takes-top-award.html|title=Yubari 2015: MAKEUP ROOM Takes Top Award In Fantastic Off Theatre Competition|publisher=Twith Film|date=February 25, 2015|last=O'Keeffe|first=Christopher|accessdate=2015-02-25}}{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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