Atsushi Yamatoya

He joined the Nikkatsu studio in 1962 as an assistant director before leaving in 1966 to work with the ‘pink film’ company founded by producer-director Koji Wakamatsu. In two of the four features he directed – Koya no datchi waifu(1967) and Aiyoku no wana (1973) – he used elements from Koroshi no rakuin (1967), a thriller he co-wrote with its director, Seijun Suzuki. In the following years, Yamatoya largely worked as writer and co-writer for Nikkatsu, and wrote screenplays for a number of Suzuki’s films. Atsushi Yamatoya died in 1993.

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