Ganari Takahashi is a Japanese adult video director and company founder.
11 Facts About Ganari Takahashi
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Ganari Takahashi founded Soft On Demand, one of the largest adult video conglomerates in Japan.
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About that time, an AV company with about 10 employees was on the edge of bankruptcy and Ganari Takahashi with help from Itoh was able to use the company as the basis for the foundation of Soft On Demand in 1995.
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Ganari Takahashi was able to grow SOD into a major company, from sales of 300 million yen in 1996 to 6 billion yen by 2001 and to 9 billion yen in 2005.
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Ganari Takahashi's plan was to increase market share and to absorb or eliminate competition from the hundreds of other AV manufacturers by producing high quality products at lower prices and by removing some of the stigma attached to adult products.
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Ganari Takahashi retired from SOD at the end of fiscal year 2005 and used the 1 billion yen "golden handshake" he received to purchase a farm in suburban Tokyo which would provide fresh produce to be served at his nearby restaurant.
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Ganari Takahashi traveled to farms all over Japan to learn the business, and noted: "Everybody who works for me is an idiot, who keeps saying how things can't be done instead of using their heads and trying to work out the ways things can be done".
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Ganari Takahashi started his new company "National Farm" in 2006 with the goal of trying to improve farm products saying that years of government subsidies had discouraged farmers - "The farmers are not rewarded for producing better agricultural products".
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Ganari Takahashi's solution was to support new farming techniques and to encourage farmers by opening a series of restaurants buying fresh vegetable produce directly from farmers.
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Ganari Takahashi's entry, Making AV Debut Without Being Nude [OPEN-0719] starring Mao Hirai, was made under the label of his first restaurant "Kunitachi Farm".
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When SOD announced plans in 2004 to produce an adaptation of the Shougakukan Big Comic Original manga series Ajisai no Uta as an original video animation, Ganari Takahashi said he started the project because he and his wife both enjoyed the manga and he wanted to make something his 6-year-old son could enjoy.