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Takahiko Iimura(1937-2022)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Actor
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Takahiko Iimura was born on 20 February 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Onan (1963), De Sade (1962) and Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema (1967). He was married to Akiko Iimura. He died on 31 July 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.
BornFebruary 20, 1937
DiedJuly 31, 2022(85)
BornFebruary 20, 1937
DiedJuly 31, 2022(85)
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  • Awards
    • 1 win total

Known for

Onan (1963)
Onan
5.5
Short
  • Director
  • 1963
De Sade (1962)
De Sade
Short
  • Director(as Taka Iimura)
  • 1962
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema (1967)
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
  • Director(segments "Onan", "6x6", "Ai")
  • 1967
Models, Reel 2 (1972)
Models, Reel 2
  • Director
  • 1972

Credits

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Director

  • Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973 (2023)
    Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973
    • Director
    • 2023
  • Personal Cinema: Takahiko Iimura (2021)
    Personal Cinema: Takahiko Iimura
    Video
    • Director
    • 2021
  • Takahiko Iimura in Various Materials and Work Compilations (2019)
    Various Materials and Work Compilations
    Video
    • Director
    • 2019
  • Circle & Square 2018 (2018)
    Circle & Square 2018
    Short
    • Director
    • 2018
  • Filmperformance mit Takahiko Iimura am Goethe-Institut Tokyo (2018)
    Filmperformance mit Takahiko Iimura am Goethe-Institut Tokyo
    • Director
    • 2018
  • Takahiko Iimura in Takahiko Iimura: Seeing Double (2016)
    Takahiko Iimura: Seeing Double
    Video
    • Director
    • 2016
  • Writing with Light: White Calligraphy (2014)
    Writing with Light: White Calligraphy
    Video
    • Director
    • 2014
  • Takahiko Iimura: Movies & Performance at the Eye Film Institute (2014)
    Takahiko Iimura: Movies & Performance at the Eye Film Institute
    • Director
    • 2014
  • White Calligraphy, Re-Read (2014)
    White Calligraphy, Re-Read
    Short
    • Director
    • 2014
  • Film Independents 1964: A Commercial for Myself (2013)
    Film Independents 1964: A Commercial for Myself
    Video
    • Director (segments "My Documentary", "Ura to Omote/Inside & Outside")
    • 2013
  • Takahiko Iimura: Early Film Poems (2013)
    Takahiko Iimura: Early Film Poems
    Video
    • Director
    • 2013
  • Gin namari gahô-kai (2011)
    Gin namari gahô-kai
    • Director
    • 2011
  • Circle & Square (2011)
    Circle & Square
    Short
    • Director
    • 2011
  • Takahiko Iimura: Between the Frames (2011)
    Takahiko Iimura: Between the Frames
    Video
    • Director
    • 2011
  • Takahiko Iimura: Filmmakers (2 Films) (2010)
    Takahiko Iimura: Filmmakers (2 Films)
    Video
    • Director
    • 2010

Writer

  • Circle & Square 2018 (2018)
    Circle & Square 2018
    Short
    • concept
    • 2018
  • Takahiko Iimura in Takahiko Iimura: Seeing Double (2016)
    Takahiko Iimura: Seeing Double
    Video
    • Writer
    • 2016
  • Writing with Light: White Calligraphy (2014)
    Writing with Light: White Calligraphy
    Video
    • concept
    • 2014
  • White Calligraphy, Re-Read (2014)
    White Calligraphy, Re-Read
    Short
    • concept
    • 2014
  • Circle & Square (2011)
    Circle & Square
    Short
    • concept
    • 2011
  • Takahiko Iimura: Between the Frames (2011)
    Takahiko Iimura: Between the Frames
    Video
    • concept
    • 2011
  • Takahiko Iimura: Filmmakers (2 Films) (2010)
    Takahiko Iimura: Filmmakers (2 Films)
    Video
    • Writer
    • 2010
  • Performance 1, White Calligraphy: Toronto (2009)
    Performance 1, White Calligraphy: Toronto
    Video
    • concept
    • 2009
  • Takahiko Iimura: Eye for Eye, Ear for Ear (2009)
    Takahiko Iimura: Eye for Eye, Ear for Ear
    Video
    • concept
    • 2009
  • The Collected Films of Takahiko Iimura, No. 1 (2008)
    The Collected Films of Takahiko Iimura, No. 1
    Video
    • concept
    • 2008
  • One Second Loop (=Infinity): A White Line in Black (2007)
    One Second Loop (=Infinity): A White Line in Black
    Short
    • concept
    • 2007
  • Takahiko Iimura: On Time in Film (2007)
    Takahiko Iimura: On Time in Film
    Video
    • concept
    • 2007
  • Takahiko Iimura: Seeing Through the Body (2007)
    Takahiko Iimura: Seeing Through the Body
    Video
    • Writer
    • 2007
  • Iimura Takahiko no DVD ato (2006)
    Iimura Takahiko no DVD ato
    Video
    • Writer
    • 2006
  • Takahiko Iimura: For Filmic Meditation (2006)
    Takahiko Iimura: For Filmic Meditation
    Video
    • concept
    • 2006

Actor

  • Filmperformance mit Takahiko Iimura am Goethe-Institut Tokyo (2018)
    Filmperformance mit Takahiko Iimura am Goethe-Institut Tokyo
    • 2018
  • I Am (Not) Seen (2003)
    I Am (Not) Seen
    Video
    • 2003
  • Takahiko Iimura: Seeing/Hearing/Speaking (2002)
    Takahiko Iimura: Seeing/Hearing/Speaking
    Video
    • 2002
  • Aiueonn: Multiple Face Version (1993)
    Aiueonn: Multiple Face Version
    Video
    • 1993
  • Aiueonn: Real Face Version (1993)
    Aiueonn: Real Face Version
    Video
    • 1993
  • Aiueonn: Remix Face Version (1993)
    Aiueonn: Remix Face Version
    Video
    • 1993
  • Aiueonn: Yellow Face Version (1993)
    Aiueonn: Yellow Face Version
    Video
    • 1993
  • Double Identities 2
    Video
    • 1993
  • Takahiko Iimura and Akiko Iimura in I Love You (1987)
    I Love You
    Short
    • 1987
  • Talking to Myself at PS1 (1985)
    Talking to Myself at PS1
    Video
    • 1985
  • A Conversation with Video
    Video
    • 1983
  • Robina Rose and Me
    Video
    • 1983
  • A I U E O NN (1982)
    A I U E O NN
    Video
    • 1982
  • Hundred Features
    Video
    • 1982
  • Self Introduction
    Video
    • 1982

Personal details

  • Official site
    • Official Site
  • Alternative name
    • Taka Iimura
  • Born
    • February 20, 1937
    • Tokyo, Japan
  • Died
    • July 31, 2022
    • Tokyo, Japan
  • Spouse
    • Akiko Iimura1966 - ?

Did you know

  • Trivia
    Formed the collective 'Japan Film Andepandan' (Independents) with Donald Richie and Nobuhiko Ōbayashi in 1964.
  • Quotes
    [September 2010] I have worked in film, experimental film, I mean, since 1962, and have produced quite a number of works but I was excited by video as a new media. Although I didn't have a video recorder or camera at that time, so when I got back to Tokyo the first thing I bought was a video camera, recorder and monitor and I started working with video. That was around the end of 1969, when I went back to Tokyo. It took me a year or so to start making my first works. I made A Chair (1970) and Blinking (1971) both in 1970.

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