Mitsuru Meike

Mitsuru Meike
Born	May 11, 1969 (1969-05-11) (age 42)[1] Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter Actor
Years active	1996 –

Mitsuru Meike (女池充, 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" (ピンク七福神, shichifukujin^?).

Life and career

Mitsuru Meike's introduction to the film industry was as assistant director to prominent female pink film director Sachi Hamano.^[2] He later worked at Outcast Produce with Toshiya Ueno and under the mentorship of "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno^?) director, Toshiki Satō, whom he served as assistant director beginning in 1992.^[1][2] Meike's directorial debut was with the V-cinema film, Confinement (監禁, Kankin^?) (1996).^[1][2] 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.^[3][4] 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.^[5]

Meike is one of the most experimental and daring of the shichifukujin directors.^[2] 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.^[6] The film became a surprise international hit, playing at 20 film festivals and having a theatrical release in the U.S. in 2006.^[7]

Award-winning films

"Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix

• 1997 7th place: Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet (白衣いんらん日記 濡れたまま二度､三度, Hakui inran nikki: nureta mama nido, sando^?)
• 1998 8th place: ぐしょ濡れ美容師　すけべな下半身
• 2002 5th place: Shameful Family: Pin Down Technique (ハレンチ・ファミリー　寝ワザで一発, Harenchi*famirii^?)
• 2004 10th place: Bitter Sweet (濃厚不倫　とられた女, Nōkō furin: torareta onna^?)

Pinky Ribbon Awards

• 2004 Pearl Prize: Bitter Sweet (濃厚不倫 とられた女, Nōkō furin torareta onna^?)

Bibliography

English

• Mitsuru Meike at AllRovi
• Mitsuru Meike (I) at the Internet Movie Database
• "MITSURU MEIKE". Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/person63964.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
• Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 317–20, 350–51, etc.. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 

Japanese

• "女池充 めいけ・みつる" (in Japanese). www.allcinema.net. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=250926. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
• "女池充" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0169770.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
• "女池充 （メイケミツル）" (in Japanese). Variety Japan. http://search.varietyjapan.com/moviedb/person_127334.html. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
• "女池　充" (in Japanese). Director's Guild of Japan. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20071010210949/http://www.dgj.or.jp/modules/contents6/index.php?id=45. Retrieved 2009-06-22. 
• Fujimori, Ayako (2005-12-05). "海外の映画祭で大爆笑!!　日本凱旋上映となった; 「花井さちこの華麗な生涯」の女池充監督; 独占インタビュー&初日密着レポート! (Interview with Mitsuru Meike)" (in Japanese). www.walkerplus.com. http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report4142.html. Retrieved 2009-06-22. 

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} "女池　充: デビューを小分けに" (in Japanese). Director's Guild of Japan. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20071010210949/http://www.dgj.or.jp/modules/contents6/index.php?id=45. Retrieved 2010-07-20. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 
3. ^ "Pink Films History" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/history/history.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 
4. ^ "Best Ten of 1997 (１９９７年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1997.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009. 
5. ^ "Best Ten of 2002 (２００２年度ベストテン)" (in Japanese). P*G Website. http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2002.htm. Retrieved January 18, 2009. 
6. ^ Sharp. Behind the Pink Curtain (2008), pp. 318-319.
7. ^ Sharp, Jasper. "Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global". The Japan Times. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20081204r1.html. Retrieved 2009-06-21. 

Awards and achievements
Pink Grand Prix
Preceded by Toshiro Enomoto for Forbidden Affair: Adulterous Wife Legs Spread Wide Open	Pink Grand Prix for New Best Director Mitsuru Meike 1997 for Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet	Succeeded by Yoshitaka Kamata for Dangerous Affair: Drool of the Beast
Preceded by Tarō Araki for Sister-in-Law's Wet Thighs	Pink Grand Prix for Best Director Mitsuru Meike 2002 for Shameful Family: Pin Down Technique	Succeeded by Minoru Kunizawa for Irresistable Angel: Suck It All Up

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Name	Meike, Mitsuru
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Date of birth	1969-05-11
Place of birth	Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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