Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma.
12 Facts About Tohjiro
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Tohjiro, whose real name is Chisho Ito, was born in 1956 in the Roppongi district of Tokyo.
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Tohjiro wrote and directed the film Gondola, which was released theatrically in October 1987 and later as a DVD.
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Tohjiro made some early works with bondage themes for CineMagic including an entry in the CineMagic "Immoral Angel" series, the September 1996 Immoral Angel 25, and one for the "Slave Secretary" series, Abnormal Privacy: Slave Secretary 16, in January 1997.
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Tohjiro celebrated his 200th video as a director with Incomplete, Chisato Aihara for Shy in July 1997.
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Tohjiro twice won an award from the Tokyo-based AV magazine Orange Communications which ended its long publishing history in 2009.
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Up to 1997 Tohjiro had been mainly working for the older major rental-video oriented studios but in that year he joined the recently formed independent or "indie" studio Soft On Demand which sold its videos to the general market and had looser content standards.
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Tohjiro is credited with launching the career of AV Idol Kurumi Morishita at SOD, the actress most closely associated with his work for many years.
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Tohjiro directed her first video Ubu released in September 1998.
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Tohjiro won the 1st Place award in 2005 and 2006 but finished 9th in 2007, the last year of the contest.
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Tohjiro entered one of his Dogma videos, Vomit Enema Ecstasy X in the 2009 AV Grand Prix competition and made some waves by declaring all-out war by his small "indie" company to defeat the favorite, top studio S1 No 1 Style.
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S1 did take the GrandPrix prize and several others, but Tohjiro made good on part of his boast by winning the Digital Sales Award and the 2 million yen prize money.