Tohjiro

TOHJIRO
Born	Chishō Itō 1956 (age 59–60) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1987 –

Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video (AV) director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma.

Life and career

Tohjiro, whose real name is Chishō Itō (伊藤智生),^[1] was born in 1956 in the Roppongi district of Tokyo.^[2] He started out as an independent film director. He wrote and directed the film Gondola (ゴンドラ), which was released theatrically in October 1987^[3][4] and later as a DVD.^[1] The film won him the Best New Director award at the 1988 Yokohama Film Festival.^[5]

Early AV career

Tohjiro made his first AV in 1989 (released in January 1990) titled Blue Film (ブルーフィルム) and starring early AV Idol Nao Saejima for Kaoru Adachi's recently founded studio V&R Planning.^[2][6] His December 1991 video for V&R Planning, New Female Teacher Special: Dangerous Sailor Story After School, was the first of a long and popular series.^[2][7]

In the first half of the 1990s decade, in addition to V&R Planning, Tohjiro also directed for several other early AV studios including VIP, Cosmos Plan, Alice Japan, Max-A and Kuki.^[8] During this period, Tohjiro made videos covering most of the common styles and genres popular in Japanese pornography including cosplay (Uniform Connection 13 & Uniform Connection 16),^[9] anal sex (Fall of the Virgin),^[10] simulated rape (Ayano Kotobuki in Sexy Teacher Hunt)^[11] and vibrator and vegetable play (Erotic Sensuality, Shocking Fuck).^[12] He also 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.^[8][13]

Tohjiro celebrated his 200th video as a director with Incomplete, Chisato Aihara for Shy in July 1997.^[14] He twice won an award from the Tokyo-based AV magazine Orange Communications (オレンジ通信) which ended its long publishing history in 2009.^[2][15]

SOD

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 (SOD) which sold its videos to the general market and had looser content standards.^[2] Beginning in December 1997, SOD released a series of Tohjiro branded videos on their Hamlet label beginning with Real Fetish labeled as TJ-001. This VHS tape, which was released as a DVD in 2002, has actress Sanae Asō in a variety of bondage and S&M fetish situations including having sex while covered in animal entrails.^[16][17]

Tohjiro also continued directing for other studios, including Yuri Komuro's first video for Alice Japan, Sexy Butt from January 1998 where she plays an alien from outer space who has sex with earthmen,^[18] and two entries in h.m.p.'s S&M genre Kitan Club label in April and June 1998.^[8]

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.^[19] He directed her first video Ubu released in September 1998.

In December 1999, Ganari Takahashi, the founder and chief at SOD, banned Tohjiro from making porn videos with SOD for a year, telling him to "go away and fix your porn-addicted brain! Your recent movies have lost their edge!"^[20] For that year, Tohjiro worked on softcore V-Cinema films for SOD including the May 2000 VHS production Lovely Woman Teacher (愛しの女教師) starring Mirei Asaoka and the October 2000 Nude Hostess (全裸若女将) with Kurumi Morishita. This was followed in December by nana (なな) starring Chinatsu Itō. All three VHS videos were later released by SOD in DVD format^{[2][21][22][23]}

Dogma

After a year Tohjiro returned saying "I'm going to start a revolution at SOD!" In February 2001, he formed the Dogma label as part of the SOD group. His first release under the Dogma label appeared in April 2001, Innocent Desire, with his favorite actress Kurumi Morishita. A year later Tohjiro separated Dogma from SOD to form an independent company.^[20] When Dogma became a separate company, Morishita left SOD to join Dogma and Tohjiro as a contract actress.^[24]

Under Tohjiro, Dogma has been successful as a company specializing in extreme fetish videos which include bondage, forced fellatio and various S&M themes.^[24] In December 2005 Tohjiro and Morishita returned to make peace at their old studio SOD with Stripper, a lesbian love story with SOD star Nana Natsume.^[25]

In addition to Morishita, other AV Idols who have worked extensively at Dogma with Tohjiro are Mayura Hoshitsuki, Chihiro Hasegawa, Maki Tomoda and Marin Izumi.^[8] With a few other actresses, they make up the group known as Tohjiro's M (Masochist) Women.^[26] Tohjiro instituted a separate hardcore S&M themed label, CORE SM, in December 2005 with its first release being Maki Tomoda - Bound Masochistic Slave.^[27]

Beginning in 2005, Dogma sponsored the D-1 Climax (D-1　クライマックス) awards as a competition for directors inside and outside of the Dogma studio. Tohjiro won the 1st Place award in 2005 and 2006 but finished 9th in 2007, the last year of the contest.^[28][29]

Tohjiro entered one of his Dogma videos, Vomit Enema Ecstasy X in the 2009 AV Grand Prix competition ^[30] and made some waves by declaring all-out war by his small "indie" company to defeat the favorite, top studio S1 No. 1 Style.^[31] 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 (about $20,000) prize money.^[32]

Selected filmography

Video title[33]	Release date	Studio	Cast	Notes
Blue Film[6] ブルーフィルム	1990-01-24	V&R Planning VR-154	Nao Saejima	Tohjiro's debut AV
The Brand New Woman Teacher[34] 新任女教師	1991-07-13	V&R Planning VR-188	Rie Ōshima
New Female Teacher Special: Dangerous Sailor Story After School[7] あぶない放課後　女教師スペシャル	1991-12-13	V&R Planning VR-192	Maria Sawaguchi
Crime of Passion, Triangle Love 愛の嵐　～禁断のトライアングル～	1992-01-17	VIP 9B-003	Kozue Igarashi
Uniform Connection 13[9] 出血大制服13	1992-03-27	VIP 9B-019	Kozue Igarashi
Virgin Suplex Hold[35] ヴァージンスープレックスホールド　河合ふみえ	1992-11-21	V&R Planning Virgin VA-123	Fumie Kawai
Uniform Connection 16 出血大制服１６	1993-04-16	VIP 10B-025	Rie Tezuka
Heavy Drinking Erotica[36] 暴飲エロティカ	1993-04-18	Media Station Bazooka BS-104	Ayumi Hara
Love Aishichau 愛・愛しちゃう	1993-04-29	Cosmos Plan IS-91	Yumi Shindō
Sign Wa "V" "V"[37] サインはブイブイ	1993-07-30	Alice Japan KA-1572	Mari Mizuki
New Female Teacher Special 新・女教師スペシャル	1993-09-13	V&R Planning Vogue VO-124	Ari Andō
Pink no Takarabako ピンクの宝箱	1993-09-24	Alice Japan KA-1587	Yumi Shindō
Graduation Vol.2 卒業　第２章	1993-12-24	MaxA Calen XC-1017	Narumi Oda
Begging Daughter おねだり娘	1994-03-18	MaxA Samansa XS-2047	Saki Mizusawa
Hips Dynamite 尻ダイナマイト	1994-09-16	Alice Japan KA-1677	Saki Mizusawa
Greedy Sheep 羊たちは貪欲	1994-10-28	Alice Japan KA-1684	Saya Hidaka
Graduation Vol.3 卒業　第３章	1995-01-27	MaxA Calen XC-1028	Maria Suzuki
Do You Wanna Do A Super Star? スーパースターとしませんか	1995-05-19	Alice Japan Babylon KR-9009	Saya Hidaka
Deep Kiss	1995-09-22	MaxA Samansa XS-2108	Sanae Asō
New Female Teacher Special 新・女教師スペシャル	1995-11-16	V&R Planning Vogue VO-148	Saya Hidaka
Here's Ai Mizuno!![38] 水野愛でございます！！	1996-02-17	Kuki Vinl JF-338	Ai Mizuno
Erotic Sensuality, Shocking Fuck 官能エロ　Shocking Fuck	1996-08-30	MaxA Calen XC-1063	Misuzu Saeki
Immoral Angel 25 インモラル天使２５	1996-09-27	CineMagic VS-429	Marika Suzuki
Abnormal Privacy: Slave Secretary 16 Abnormal Privacy 奴隷秘書16	1997-01-31	CineMagic VS-447	Nanako Sakurasawa
Ayano Kotobuki in Sexy Teacher Hunt 女教師狩りin寿綾乃	1997-01-31	Max-A Calen XC-1078	Ayano Kotobuki
Incomplete, Chisato Aihara 未完成　愛原ちさと	1997-07-24	Shy FE-377	Chisato Aihara	Tohjiro's 200th AV
Fall of the Virgin 崩壊ヴァージン	1997-08-08	Alice Japan Babylon KR-9053	Izumi Arimori
Real Fetish[39] レアフェティッシュ	1997-12-05 (VHS) 2002-05-17 (DVD)	SOD Hamlet TJ-001 (VHS) SDDL-150 (DVD)	Sanae Asō
Sexy Butt 女尻	1998-01-23	Alice Japan	Yuri Komuro
Kitan Club 42: Squirming 奇譚クラブ４６　縄よ！	1998-06-30	h.m.p. Kitan Club TKT-008	Izumi Maki
Kitan Club 46: Oh, My Rope! 奇譚クラブ４２ 蠢	1998-04-27	h.m.p. Kitan Club TKT-004	Ayane Yuki & Kozue Yukino
Ubu うぶ 森下くるみ	1998-09-18	SOD Ubu UBU-001	Kurumi Morishita	Morishita's AV debut
After School - The Female Teacher Story あぶない放課後　新・女教師スペシャル	1998-10-19	V&R Planning	Yuri Komuro
Nurse Hunting: Female Body Laboratory 女体実験室 ナース狩り	1999-04-09	SOD SDDL-010	Kurumi Morishita
Lost Anal Virgin 喪失 ［アナルウ゛ァージン］	1999-05-14	SOD SDDL-013	Kurumi Morishita
Innocent Desire 青い性欲	2001-06-07	Dogma DDT-001	Kurumi Morishita	First Dogma label video
2nd Fan Gratitude Day 第2回森下くるみのファン感謝デー	2001-11-20	SOD SDDH-013	Kurumi Morishita
Roommate ルームメイト	2002-04-06	Dogma DDT-021	Kurumi Morishita & Ai Nagase
Semen Teacher ザーメン女教師	2002-05-06	Dogma DDT-026	Kurumi Morishita
Object Stalker, Rape Slave (Beautiful Slave) 主観ストーカー レイプ奴隷	2002-09-10	Dogma DDT-043	Kurumi Morishita
Mourning Dress Sisters, Close Relative Lesbian 喪服の姉妹 近親レズビアン	2002-12-10	Dogma DDT-052	Kurumi Morishita & Sayaka Tsutsumi	Lesbian
Confinement Chair Trance Ran Asakawa 拘束椅子トランス	2003-01-10	Dogma DDT-055	Ran Asakawa
Forest in Nude ミリオンスペシャル　ヌードの森　〜メモワール　レズビアン〜	2003-06-27	KMP Million MILV-081	Kurumi Morishita & Nao Oikawa	Lesbian
Confinement Chair Trance 拘束椅子トランス	2003-10-10	Dogma DDT-072	Kurumi Morishita
Change チェンジ 森下くるみ・桜井風	2004-04-15	Dogma DDT-086	Kurumi Morishita & Fūka Sakurai
Confinement Chair Trance Mayura Hoshitsuki 拘束椅子トランス	2004-07-10	Dogma DDT-095	Mayura Hoshitsuki
Confinement Chair Trance Maki Tomoda 拘束椅子トランス	2004-11-08	Dogma DDT-103	Maki Tomoda
White Semen Bukakke again 白い性欲 星月まゆら	2005-02-08	Dogma DDT-111	Mayura Hoshitsuki
Inside a Treasure 蔵の中	2005-04-15	Moodyz Killer MDED-383	Kurumi Morishita & An Nanba
Women Only Orgy Party - Endless Lesbian 女だけの乱交パーティー	2005-08-15	Dogma DDT-127	Sakura Sakurada, Ami Nishimura, Ram Himemiya, Urara Haru, Rua Maino & Yun Mayuki	Lesbian
M Drug - Female Meat Toilet - Mayura Hoshitsuki Mドラッグ 女体肉便器・連続強制フェラ・生中出し	2005-09-15	Dogma D1-009	Mayura Hoshitsuki	D-1 Climax 1st Place
Girls and the Imprisonment in a Harem 女子校生監禁ハーレム	2005-10-19	Dogma DDT-130	Chihiro Hasegawa, Yuria Hidaka & Nana Miyachi
Stripper ストリッパー	2005-12-04	SOD SDDM-727	Kurumi Morishita & Nana Natsume with Sakura Sakurada, Maki Tomoda & Ami Nishimura
Maki Tomoda - Bound Masochistic Slave 縄・Ｍ女優コレクション　友田真希	2005-12-19	Dogma COT-001	Maki Tomoda	First CORE label video
Rope Lesbian Triangle 縄・トライアングル レズビアン	2006-06-19	Dogma COT-004	Kurumi Morishita, Mayura Hoshitsuki & Shuri Himesaki	Lesbian
LesFist Drug レズフィスト・ドラッグ	2006-09-19	Dogma D1-211	Maki Tomoda & Chihiro Hasegawa	Lesbian D-1 Climax 1st Place
Lolita Sperm Lesbian ロリスペレズ 星月まゆら 長谷川ちひろ	2006-12-19	Dogma DDT-154	Chihiro Hasegawa & Mayura Hoshitsuki
Underarm Hair Drug - The Dream Of A Girl With Underarm Hair ワキ毛・ドラッグ~ワキ毛少女の見る夢~ 星月まゆら	2007-04-19	Dogma DDT-166	Mayura Hoshitsuki
The Rope - 7 M Women 縄・7人のM女	2007-06-19	Dogma COT-009	Maki Tomoda, Hine Otsuka, Marin Izumi, Mayura Hoshitsuki, Yuria Hidaka, Chihiro Hasegawa & Akane Mochida
Vomit Lesbian Drug ゲボレズ・ドラッグ	2007-08-19	Dogma COT-010	Mayura Hoshitsuki & Akane Mochida	Lesbian
Best of M Drug - Female Meat Toilet Mドラッグ・スペシャル 女体肉便器ベスト	2007-12-01	Dogma AVGL-019	Mayura Hoshitsuki, Chihiro Hasegawa, Marin Izumi & Momo Nakamura	2008 AV Grand Prix entry
Ero Pop Girl ERO POP GIRL ベロチュパ・レズ	2008-02-19	Dogma DDT-174	Mayura Hoshitsuki & Ryo Matsushima	Lesbian
Bondage Chair Legend 拘束椅子Ｌｅｇｅｎｄ	2008-03-19	Dogma DDT-178	Maria Ozawa
10 Year Special Lessons In Secret Technique Men’s Bible Vol. 1 あれから10年 秘技伝授 男のバイブル[完全潮吹き入門] Vol. 1	2008-06-19	Dogma DDT-185	Mayura Hoshitsuki, Hotaru Akane, Ryo Akanishi, Marin Izumi & Yū Tsuyuno
10 Year Special Lessons In Secret Technique Men’s Bible Vol. 2 あれから10年　秘技伝授　男のバイブルVOL.2	2008-07-19	Dogma DDT-188	Mayura Hoshitsuki, Marin Izumi, Yū Tsuyuno, Ryō Natsume & Akane Mochida
Vomit Enema Ecstasy X ゲロ浣腸エクスタシー X	2008-11-22	Dogma AVGL-130	Mayura Hoshitsuki & Yōka Osawa	2009 AV Grand Prix entry

Notes

1. 税込み価格：-- 売切れ (in Japanese). www.aruaruvideo.com. Retrieved 2009-08-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
2. "TOHJIRO profile" (in Japanese). blog.livedoor.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
3. ゴンドラ (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 2009-08-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
4. "Gondola (1987)". IMdB. Retrieved 2009-08-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
5. "Yokohama Film Festival: 1988". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
6. ブルーフィルム (in Japanese). www.vandr.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
7. あぶない放課後　女教師スペシャル　沢口まりあ (in Japanese). www.vandr.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
8. "TOHJIRO Director Filmography". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2009-08-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
9. "UNIFORM CONNECTION 13". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12. External link in |publisher= (help)
10. "The Fall of the Virgin". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12. External link in |publisher= (help)
11. "Ayano Kotobuki in Sexy Teacher Hunt". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12. External link in |publisher= (help)
12. "Erotic Sensuality". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12. External link in |publisher= (help)
13. "Immoral Angel 25". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2009-08-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
14. "Incomplete, Chisato Aihara". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12. External link in |publisher= (help)
15. "安田理央の恥ずかしいblog" (in Japanese). d.hatena.ne.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
16. "TOHJIRO" (in Japanese). www.nkikaku.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
17. レア フェティッシュ (in Japanese). DMM. Retrieved 2009-08-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
18. "Sexy Butt". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12. External link in |publisher= (help)
19. "TOHJIRO Dogma Bio". www.dogma.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2009-08-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
20. "What Is Dogma?". www.dogma.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2009-08-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
21. 愛しの女教師 朝岡実嶺 (in Japanese). DMM. Retrieved 2009-08-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
22. 全裸若女将 森下くるみ (in Japanese). DMM. Retrieved 2009-08-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
23. なな 禁断ロ●ータ剃毛ドラマ (in Japanese). DMM. Retrieved 2009-08-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
24. "JAV News - Popular Series and Actors from Dogma Studio". JAV News. August 2008. Archived from the original on October 4, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-14. External link in |publisher= (help)
25. Payne, Peter (December 1, 2005). "STRIPPER -- Nana Natsume & Kurumi Morishita". J-List side blog. Retrieved 2008-11-29. External link in |publisher= (help)
26. "『SMナイト』[SM Naito]" (in Japanese). www.dogma.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2008-09-18. External link in |publisher= (help)
27. "動画 ビデオ > レーベル > CORE (Videos - Label - CORE)" (in Japanese). DMM. Retrieved 2009-08-17. External link in |publisher= (help)
28. Otsubo, Kemuta (December 24, 2006). "最エロな監督と女優が決定！Ｄ１クライマックス授賞式 (Porn Actresses & Best Director - D-1 Climax Ceremony)" (in Japanese). All About. Retrieved 2008-11-20. External link in |publisher= (help)
29. "D-1 Climax Director's 1 Results" (in Japanese). www.dogma.co.jp. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-20. External link in |publisher= (help)
30. "Dogma Entry" (in Japanese). www.av-gp.com. Retrieved 2009-03-01. External link in |publisher= (help)
31. "AVGP 2009" (in Japanese). www.dogma.co.jp. Archived from the original on December 17, 2008. Retrieved 2009-03-01. External link in |publisher= (help)
32. "AVGP 2009 Result announcement" (in Japanese). www.av-gp.com. Retrieved 2009-03-02. External link in |publisher= (help)
33. Filmography from "TOHJIRO". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2009-03-02. External link in |publisher= (help)
34. 新任女教師　大島理恵 (in Japanese). www.vandr.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
35. ヴァージンスープレックスホールド　河合ふみえ (in Japanese). www.vandr.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
36. 暴飲エロティカ (in Japanese). www.arzon.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
37. サインはブイブイ (in Japanese). www.alicejapan.co.jp. Retrieved 2009-08-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
38. "Here's Ai Mizuno!!". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-12. External link in |publisher= (help)
39. "Rea fetisshu (1997)". IMdB. Retrieved 2009-08-15. External link in |publisher= (help)

Sources

• "Tohjiro at IMdB".
• "Tohjiro Filmography at Urabon Navigator".
• "Tohjiro Filmography at Alice Japan".
• Tohjiro on Twitter