Kaoru Adachi
Kaoru Adachi is a Japanese film director, producer and editor, and founder of the Japanese documentary and adult video studio V&R Planning.
Life and career
Kaoru Adachi was born Susumu Saegusa in Tokyo. He initially worked in the TV industry mainly as an import agent for foreign films and is credited by former associate Company Matsuo with introducing Monty Python to Japan.V&R Planning
In April 1986, Adachi founded the film studio V&R Planning in Tokyo. The V&R stands for "Visual and Retail". According to Matsuo, Adachi didn't know how to shoot films but was interested in "weird documentaries", especially those involving death, so he just "shot documentaries the way he thought they should be."V&R Planning, under the Mad Video label, distributed the Japanese versions of the first three videos in the US Faces of Death series as Janku or Junk. Around 1989, Adachi along with Company Matsuo and a cameraman traveled to Brazil to film death scenes for Shin janku, known in the US as Faces of Death 4, for which Adachi received co-director credit. Dark Side magazine noted his involvement with this series in an article "A Death Dealer - Susumu Saegusa" in issue #124 for December/January 2007. He also did a further series of death videos called "Death File" again under the Mad Video label.
In another vein, Adachi produced and edited Katsuyuki Hirano's award-winning 1999 film Shiro - The White, a documentary of a solo bike ride to northern Hokkaido during a blizzard.
AV director
Adachi directed a number of videos with AV Idol Yumika Hayashi at V&R Planning from as early as 1990 in his "Jesus Christ Superstar Special" series. He also directed another AV series titled "Black Jesus Christ Superstar".In addition to straight actress features, Adachi was also involved in directing a number of extreme fetish movies including bestiality in the July 1987 Immoral Animal in Wonderland, urolagnia in the 2004 works Urination Class Sakura Sakurada and Urination Class Reiko Mizuno and scatology in Grotesque Entertainment - Super Mad Scatology released in 1997 for the V&R Planning Purge label.