Mitsuru Meike (å¥³æ± å……, Meike Mitsuru) is a Japanese film director,
screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the group of prominent pink film
directors known collectively as the "Seven Lucky Gods of
Pink"(ãƒ"ãƒ³ã‚¯ä¸ƒç¦ ç¥ž, shichifukujin) which comprises Meike,
Toshiya Ueno, YÅ«ji Tajiri, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, ToshirÅ
Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto.Mitsuru Meike's introduction to the film
industry was as assistant director to prominent female pink film
director Sachi Hamano. He later worked at Outcast Produce with Toshiya
Ueno and under the mentorship of "Four Heavenly Kings of
Pink"(ãƒ"ンク四天王, pinku shitenno) director, Toshiki SatÅ ,
whom he served as assistant director beginning in 1992. Meike's
directorial debut was with the V-cinema film, Confinement (ç›£ç¦ ,
Kankin) (1996). He made his theatrical directorial debut in 1997 with
ShintÅ hÅ Eiga'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
negotiations 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.
screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the group of prominent pink film
directors known collectively as the "Seven Lucky Gods of
Pink"(ãƒ"ãƒ³ã‚¯ä¸ƒç¦ ç¥ž, shichifukujin) which comprises Meike,
Toshiya Ueno, YÅ«ji Tajiri, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, ToshirÅ
Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto.Mitsuru Meike's introduction to the film
industry was as assistant director to prominent female pink film
director Sachi Hamano. He later worked at Outcast Produce with Toshiya
Ueno and under the mentorship of "Four Heavenly Kings of
Pink"(ãƒ"ンク四天王, pinku shitenno) director, Toshiki SatÅ ,
whom he served as assistant director beginning in 1992. Meike's
directorial debut was with the V-cinema film, Confinement (ç›£ç¦ ,
Kankin) (1996). He made his theatrical directorial debut in 1997 with
ShintÅ hÅ Eiga'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
negotiations 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.
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