Mitsuru Meike
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is a Japanese film director
, screenwriter
, and actor
. He is one of the group of prominent pink film directors known collectively as the .
. He later worked at Outcast Produce with Toshiya Ueno
and under the mentorship of director, Toshiki Satō
, whom he served as assistant director beginning in 1992. Meike's directorial debut was with the V-cinema
film, (1996). He made his theatrical directorial debut in 1997 with Shintōhō's Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet for which he won the Best New Director prize at the Pink Grand Prix
. His 2002 film Shameful Family: Pin Down Technique
won Meike the Best Director title, and was named the fifth best pink release of the year at the Pink Grand Prix
.
Meike is one of the most experimental and daring of the shichifukujin directors. His 2003 film The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
concerns a call-girl who becomes a super-genius after she is inadvertently shot by a North Korean in negotions with a Middle Eastern man in a coffee shop. A frantic search for a rubber model of George W. Bush
's finger, capable of releasing the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal, ensues. The film became a surprise international hit, playing at 20 film festivals and having a theatrical release in the U.S. in 2006.
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. He is one of the group of prominent pink film directors known collectively as the .
Life and career
Mitsuru Meike's introduction to the film industry was as assistant director to prominent female pink film director Sachi HamanoSachi Hamano
aka and , is a Japanese film director. She is the most prolific and written-about female pink film director.-Life and career:Sachi Hamano was born as Sachiko Suzuki in Tokushima Prefecture on March 19, 1948. While in high school, Hamano decided she wanted to become a film director...
. He later worked at Outcast Produce with Toshiya Ueno
Toshiya Ueno
is a Japanese film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the pink film directors known collectively as the .-Life and career:...
and under the mentorship of director, Toshiki Satō
Toshiki Sato
aka , , and is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Kazuhiro Sano and Hisayasu Satō, he is known as one of the .-Life and career:...
, whom he served as assistant director beginning in 1992. Meike's directorial debut was with the V-cinema
V-Cinema
Japanese is the direct-to-video industry that appeared in Japan in the 1980s. The term is a trademark of Toei Company but is widely used in the West to describe any Japanese direct-to-video release. In Japan the term used is...
film, (1996). He made his theatrical directorial debut in 1997 with Shintōhō's Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet for which he won the Best New Director prize at the Pink Grand Prix
Pink Grand Prix
The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public....
. His 2002 film Shameful Family: Pin Down Technique
Shameful Family: Pin Down Technique
is a 2002 Japanese pink film directed by Mitsuru Meike for Kokuei, and released theatrically in Japan by Shintōhō on March 1, 2002. It won the award for Fifth Best Film at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony and lead actor Kazuhiro Sano was given a Best Actor award...
won Meike the Best Director title, and was named the fifth best pink release of the year at the Pink Grand Prix
Pink Grand Prix
The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public....
.
Meike is one of the most experimental and daring of the shichifukujin directors. His 2003 film The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai
began life as a pink film, the durable Japanese soft-core genre, with the title but it developed into a cult hit and the producers allowed director Mitsuru Meike to expand it into its present form...
concerns a call-girl who becomes a super-genius after she is inadvertently shot by a North Korean in negotions with a Middle Eastern man in a coffee shop. A frantic search for a rubber model of George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
's finger, capable of releasing the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal, ensues. The film became a surprise international hit, playing at 20 film festivals and having a theatrical release in the U.S. in 2006.
"Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix
- 1997 7th place:
- 1998 8th place:
- 2002 5th place:
- 2004 10th place:
Pinky Ribbon Awards
- 2004 Pearl Prize: