Ohara Koyu
- Name: Ohara Koyu
- Native name: 小原 宏裕
- Also Known as: Ohara Kosuke
- Nationality: Japanese
- Gender: Male
- Born: October 10, 1935
- Died: February 20, 2004
Ohara Koyu attributes his interest in film to the fact that his grandfather had worked at Nikkatsu as a director. As a child, he claims to have seen up to 200 movies a year. Though he studied law at Keio University and worked as a secretary to a member of the House of Representatives, rather than take the bar exam, he took an entrance exam at Shochiku studios. He failed the Shochiku exam, but tried out for Nikkatsu, and began working there as an assistant director in 1961. He was assigned to director Kurahara Koreyoshi, under whom he worked with future Roman Porno master, Kumashiro Tatsumi.
Ohara became known for his ability to direct successful pink movies in a variety of genres. He had successes in the S&M genre with Fairy in a Cage (1977) and Wet Rope Confession. After Nikkatsu had stopped producing "violent pink" films following Hasebe Yasuharu's ''Rape! 13th Hour (1976), Ohara revived the genre with Zoom Up: Rape Site (1979). Ohara directed women-in-prison films with the True Story of a Woman in Jail series, and the pink Catholic nun films Sister Lucia's Dishonor (1978) and Wet Rope Confession: Convent Story (1979). On television, he directed children's shows including Three Sisters Shushutorian. He directed successful satirical films like Love Daydream (1980), and office lady sex comedies like I Like It From Behind (1981), and even a pink science-fiction film, Lady Momoko's Adventure (1979) and the musical comedy pink film Oh! Takarazuka (1982).
Ohara retired from full-time film work in 1988. In 1999, while walking home from a drinking bout, Ohara had a stroke and injured himself in a fall, causing a slow down in his lifestyle and filmmaking. Ohara died on February 20, 2004.
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Director
Screenwriter & Director
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Rope Hell | 4.5 |
True Story of a Woman in Jail: Sex Hell | 5.4 |
Enka Joshi Ko: Kizudarake no Hanabira | 0.0 |
Movie
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Zoom Up: Seiko's Thigh
Japanese Movie, 1982,
[Chief editor of the pornographic magazine]
(Bit part)
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4.0
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