Urado Hiroshi 浦戸宏
Japanese editor and rope tier, born 1933, who edited at Uramado and from 1974 to 1988 handled the rope work on about fifty Nikkatsu films.
Urado Hiroshi, born in 1933, worked as a Japanese editor, writer and rope tier; his main body of rope work belongs to the Nikkatsu studio’s SM films of the 1970s and 1980s. His publisher, Chikuma Shobō, says he graduated from Hōsei University and then joined the staff of Uramado, the Tokyo SM magazine whose chief editor was then Minomura Kō. Vanilla Gallery’s 2024 retrospective identifies Minomura as a pen name of Suma Toshiyuki, who launched Uramado as its editor in 1956. Nawapedia likewise names the Uramado editorial job as his way into the SM world. Uramado was published by Kubo Shoten from 1956 until early 1965.
Freelance editor
After Uramado, Urado worked freelance. Chikuma Shobō credits him with a series of aesthetic-literature titles at the publisher Haga Shoten and with the book Kinbaku Taizen. Nawapedia dates Kinbaku Taizen to 1971 and attributes the book to Dan Oniroku, with Urado responsible for its section on bondage.
Nikkatsu rope work
From 1974 Urado served as rope instructor at Nikkatsu, and by 1988 he had handled the rope on about fifty of the studio’s films, according to Chikuma Shobō. That period matches the studio’s SM Roman Porno line: English Wikipedia notes that Nikkatsu’s 1974 film of Dan Oniroku’s Flower and Snake is credited with starting it. Nawapedia shows him on a Nikkatsu set with the actress Mabuki Junko.
Books
Urado later wrote about this work. Nawapedia lists a 2010 book on SM Roman Porno films. In 2015 Chikuma Shobō published his Bakushi: Nikkatsu Roman Porno SM dorama no genba, a book-length account of the rope work behind Nikkatsu’s SM dramas, with a second subtitle on the appeal and the difficulty of tying actresses.