Tetsuya Takehora

Tetsuya Takehora (竹洞哲也) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Life and career
Tetsuya Takehora studied at the Japan Academy of Moving Images (日本映画学校), founded by director Shōhei Imamura in 1975 as the Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film. He entered the film industry as an assistant director at Ōkura Pictures (OP Eiga), in which capacity he worked for five years. He made his directorial debut with Peep Show (人妻の秘密　覗き覗かれ) (2004), and won the Best New Director award at the Pink Grand Prix the same year for Picture Book of a Beautiful Young Girl: Soaked Uniform (美少女図鑑　汚された制服). Takehora's films are generally in a light, erotic-comic vein, and have proven popular with pink film audiences and critics. He was given the Best Director title the following year for Lustful Hitchhiker: Sought Wife (2005), and a four-film career retrospective show at the third annual R18 Love Cinema Showcase held at Tokyo's Theatre PolePole Higashi-Nakano in 2006.

"Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix

 * 2004 9th place: Picture Book of a Beautiful Young Girl: Soaked Uniform (美少女図鑑　汚された制服)
 * 2005 4th place: Lustful Hitchhiker: Sought Wife (欲情ヒッチハイク　求めた人妻)
 * 2005 Honorable Mention: 援交性態ルポ　乱れた性欲
 * 2006 1st place: Fascinating Young Hostess: Sexy Thighs (悩殺若女将　色っぽい腰つき)
 * 2006 2nd place: Miss Hotel Call Girl: Healing Induction (ホテトル嬢　癒しの手ほどき)
 * 2007 9th place (tie): The Sticky Taste of a Peach-Skinned Proprietess (桃肌女将のねばり味)
 * 2008 3rd place: Impure Uniform: Writhing Thighs (不純な制服　悶えた太もも)
 * 2008 9th place: Molester's Train: Melody of Wriggling Fingers (痴漢電車　うごめく指のメロディ)
 * 2009 8th place: Cousin White Paper: Aching Mature Lewdness (いとこ白書　うずく淫乱熱)

Pinky Ribbon Awards

 * 2006 Gold Prize: Fascinating Young Hostess: Sexy Thighs (悩殺若女将 色っぽい腰つき)