Kōichirō Uno was born in 1934 and first appeared as an author in the 1960s. He is known for his humorous approach to erotica, and for often taking the woman's point-of-view in his work. Over the next decade at least 23 films were made in the series. ''Kōichirō Uno's Dancer of Izu'' (
1984), starring actress
Kate Asabuki, is generally considered to be the best of the series. Uno wrote the script to this entry directly for the screen as a parody of
Yasunari Kawabata's famous story,
The Dancing Girl of Izu. In Uno's version, Kawabata's titular classical dancer was instead a stripper. ''
Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging'' (also 1984) was another critically praised Uno film. Director
Shusuke Kaneko was given the
Yokohama Film Festival award for best new director for this film. ==Filmography==