10 Facts About Yasuharu Hasebe

Yasuharu Hasebe recalled a trusting relationship with his father, whom he considered the biggest influence on his life.

Yasuharu Hasebe was given his first chance to direct in 1966 with Black Tight Killers.

Yasuharu Hasebe directed more action genre films in the 1960s including the fourth film in the Singing Gunman series, starring Akira Kobayashi, and Massacre Gun with Jo Shishido.

In 1970, Nikkatsu wanted to create a youth-oriented series and chose Yasuharu Hasebe to supervise the first film in what would be the popular Alleycat Rock series.

The studio gave him considerable freedom in the direction of the first film, Alleycat Rock: Female Boss, and, under the pseudonym "Takashi Fujii", Yasuharu Hasebe co-wrote the story as well.

Yasuharu Hasebe left Nikkatsu in late 1971, when the studio decided to compete with the Pink film genre, and produce almost nothing but softcore pornographic films which Nikkatsu labeled "Roman Porno".

Yasuharu Hasebe worked mainly in television in the early 1970s, including the series Spectreman.

Yasuharu Hasebe returned to Nikkatsu to make Naked Seven, a financially and critically successful parody of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and an informal sequel to the Alleycat Rock series.

When Nikkatsu offered him a chance to leave TV and create a new genre of pink film in 1976, Yasuharu Hasebe was at first reluctant.

When interviewed in 1999, Yasuharu Hasebe was a grandfather, living in comfortable semi-retirement in Tokyo.