10 Facts About Takao Nakano

Takao Nakano is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor who has worked in pink film, adult videos, and in mainstream comedy, horror and fantasy films.

Takao Nakano began working in pink film with the Shintoho Eiga company and in 1991, together with Toshiki Sato and Toshiya Ueno, Nakano assembled a conpendium of the best scenes from pink films which was released by Shintoho Eiga as That's Hentai-tainment.

Takao Nakano won the Best New Director award at the 1992 Pink Grand Prix ceremony.

Takao Nakano followed this series with the 1996 softcore comedy video Sumo Vixens featuring topless sumo wrestling girls including actress Kei Mizutani.

In 1998 Takao Nakano wrote and directed the V-Cinema release Shogun's Secret Harem aka Edo Castle Shogun's Harem Romantic Story: Big Debauchery Melting Picture Scroll set in the Edo period and starring actresses Yumi Yoshiyuki, Yumika Hayashi and Hotaru Hazuki.

Takao Nakano continued his career as a pink film actor, appearing in several works directed by Yumi Yoshiyuki, including the February 2004 Aspiring Home Tutor: Soiled Pure Whiteness which took the award for Seventh Best Film at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony and the Pearl Prize at the Pinky Ribbon Awards and the 2005 Miss Peach: Peachy Sweetness Huge Breasts which won the fifth Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony and the Pinky Ribbon Award as the Best Film of 2005.

Takao Nakano has been active in promoting live girl-on-girl wrestling bouts in Tokyo and several of his works have featured wrestling or cat fighting including the previously mentioned Sumo Vixens and the 2002 video Metomic: Hand-to-Hand Battle Royale which starred Kei Mizutani.