Yūji Tajiri
{{short description|Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor}}
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| birth_place = Hokkaido, Japan
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{{nihongo|Yūji Tajiri|田尻裕司|Tajiri Yūji}} is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the group of pink film directors collectively known as the {{nihongo|"Seven Lucky Gods of Pink"|ピンク七福神|shichifukujin}}, a group which also includes Toshiya Ueno, Mitsuru Meike, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshirō Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto.{{cite web |url=http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|title=Vital flesh: the mysterious world of Pink Eiga|access-date=2009-06-17|last=Domenig|first=Roland|year=2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041118094603/http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|archive-date=2004-11-18}}
Life and career
Yūji Tajiri was born in a small town in Hokkaido in 1968. His main interest as a youth was watching movies, and he began writing his own film scripts and making 8mm films while a teenager. At this time he began sneaking into adult theaters, and was impressed by director Kichitaro Negishi's Roman Porno film Crazy Fruit (1981)-- a pink remake of Crazed Fruit (1956).{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|page= 315|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}
Tajiri moved to Tokyo and, while attending Teikyo University, continued his movie-going habits. He was impressed with Hisayasu Satō's Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987), an independent pink film which he saw on a triple-bill with two Nikkatsu films. After he found an advertisement from Shishi studios for assistant director positions, he researched the studio. It had been founded by pink film veteran Kan Mukai and Satō had made Lolita: Vibrator Torture there. Shishi accepted Tajiri, and he began working at the studio as an assistant director in 1990.{{cite web |date=2005-11-18|first=Takehiro|last=Zenba|url=http://intro.ne.jp/contents/2005/11/18_2347.html|title= インタビュー: 田尻裕司(映画監督) (Yūji Tajiri interview)|access-date=2009-06-17|publisher=Creators Movie Magazine|language=ja}} Starting as an assistant director, he worked with such directors as Satō and Takahisa Zeze.
Tajiri's directorial debut was with the 1997 film {{nihongo|Go Go Train|イケイケ電車 ハメて、行かせて、やめないで！}}.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/history/history.htm|title=Pink Films History|access-date=2010-11-28|language=ja|publisher=P.G. Web Site|archive-date=2012-08-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805205210/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/history/history.htm|url-status=dead}} His second film, {{nihongo|Office Lady Love Juice|ＯＬの愛汁 ラブジュース|OL no aijiru: rabu jyūsu}}, was chosen as the Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix, and Tajiri was given the Best Director award.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1999.htm|title=Best Ten of 1999 (１９９９年度ベストテン)|access-date=January 18, 2009|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=ja|archive-date=August 5, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805230152/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1999.htm|url-status=dead}} The mainstream "Japanese Film Professional's Award" also awarded the film, choosing it as the seventh best release of the year.{{cite web |url=http://nichi-pro.filmcity.jp/9th.htm|script-title=ja:第９回日本映画プロフェッショナル大賞|access-date=June 2, 2009|publisher= nichi-pro.filmcity.jp|language=ja}} Tajiri's 2004 film, Twitch – You Are My Toy about erotic complications in the photography industry, won the bronze prize at the Pink Grand Prix.Sharp, pp. 316-317 The film also won awards for Best Actress and Best Cinematography.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2004.htm|title=Best Ten of 2004 (２００４年度ベストテン)|access-date=January 18, 2009|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=ja|archive-date=July 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707150014/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2004.htm|url-status=dead}}
Bibliography
=English=
- {{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|pages= 315, 361|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}
- {{imdb name|id=1965747|name=Yûji Tajiri}}
=Japanese=
- {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=260480|script-title=ja:田尻裕司 たじり・ゆうじ|access-date=2009-06-17|publisher=allcinema.net|language=ja}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0292080.htm|script-title=ja:田尻裕司|access-date=2009-06-17|language=ja|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
- {{cite web |url=http://search.varietyjapan.com/moviedb/person_202239.html|script-title=ja:田尻裕司 （タジリユウジ）|access-date=2009-06-17|publisher=Variety Japan|language=ja|title=Variety Japan}}
- {{cite web |date=2005-11-18|first=Takehiro|last=Zenba|url=http://intro.ne.jp/contents/2005/11/18_2347.html|title= インタビュー: 田尻裕司(映画監督) (Yūji Tajiri interview|access-date=2009-06-17|publisher=Creators Movie Magazine|language=ja}}
- {{cite web |date=2005-12-05|first=Takehiro|last=Zenba|url=http://intro.ne.jp/contents/2005/12/05_0928.html|title= インタビュー: 田尻裕司(映画監督) Part2 (Yūji Tajiri interview, part 2)|access-date=2009-06-17|publisher=Creators Movie Magazine|language=ja}}
References
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! colspan="3" style="background: #DAA520;" | Pink Grand Prix
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{{succession box
|title=Pink Grand Prix for Best Director
Yūji Tajiri
|years=1999
for Office Lady Love Juice
|before=Yutaka Ikejima
for Moon Light Dinner
|after=Minoru Kunizawa
for The Bride is Wet on the Wedding Night}}
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