16 Facts About Toru Muranishi

Toru Muranishi is an innovative and controversial director of Japanese adult videos.

Toru Muranishi was called "the dirtiest of the industry's dirty old men" in a 1992 Tokyo Journal article by Kjell Fornander.

Toru Muranishi subsequently became involved in book publishing and the entertainment industry.

Toru Muranishi joined the newly formed AV studio Crystal-Eizou in late 1984 and began directing films with them soon afterwards.

Toru Muranishi is given credit for launching the career of one of the first AV superstars, Kaoru Kuroki, who made her debut at Crystal-Eizou in October 1986.

Toru Muranishi has had numerous problems with the law in his career, having been convicted seven times of criminal violations.

Later that same year Toru Muranishi brought a staff to Hawaii in a "legendary session" where he filmed 30 videos in 30 days.

Toru Muranishi flew in 15 or so actresses in turn from Japan for the shooting and in December 1986 was arrested in Hawaii for passport violations and was indicted under the Mann Act.

Toru Muranishi was arrested and fined for using a 17-year-old actress in August 1988.

In September 1988 Toru Muranishi left Crystal-Eizou to form his own company, Diamond Visual.

Toru Muranishi ventured into the softcore field, and directed the December 1990 release Daikyonyuu: Noshikakaru for Xces featuring his two stars from Diamond Visual, Kaoru Kuroki and Kimiko Matsuzaka.

That enterprise collapsed and Toru Muranishi ended up in debt.

Toru Muranishi is a prolific writer both online and in print.

Toru Muranishi has contributed to a blog on Japanese AV supplier DMM's website, another blog on his own website, and a series of articles going back to 2005.

Muranishi was the subject of a documentary film Toru Muranishi: It Is Nice by Akira Takatsuki which was screened at the New Directors Film Festival in Tokyo in November 2014.

Toru Muranishi was the basis for the semi-biographical series The Naked Director which premiered on Netflix on 8 August 2019.