Takahisa Zeze

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name = Takahisa Zeze
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birthdate = 1960
birthplace = Japan
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occupation = Film director and screenwriter
yearsactive = 1989 – present
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awards = nihongo|Takahisa Zeze|瀬々敬久|"Zeze Takahisa"|extra=born in 1960 is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his "pink films" of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Sato and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the nihongo|"Four Heavenly Kings of Pink"|ピンク四天王|pinku shitenno. [cite web |url=http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|title=Vital flesh: the mysterious world of Pink Eiga|accessdate=2007-10-04|last=Domenig|first=Roland|year=2002|language=English|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20041118094603/http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|archivedate=2004-11-18]

Life and career

"I try to show relationships, I make films about love. It's not just about the act of having sex, but what leads up to it and what comes after. What are the feelings of the people before, while they do it and after they did it? It's this development that interests me. I don't care very much about rape, because it's very one-sided and doesn't allow for this kind of development... I don't want to depict characters as having sex, but as making love."
-- Takahisa Zeze [Zeze, Takahisa quoted in cite web |url=http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/takahisa_zeze.shtml|title=Takahisa Zeze interview|accessdate=2007-10-04|work= [http://www.midnighteye.com/ midnighteye.com] |language=English]

Takahisa Zeze was born in 1960 and graduated from Kyoto University in 1986. While attending this prestigious liberal arts college, Zeze began making experimental films. He began his career in the film industry working for Shishi Productions as a scriptwriter and assistant director for various "pink film" directors, including Hisayasu Sato.cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|coauthors=Yuko Mihara Weisser|title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=487|chapter=Spotlight: Four Kings of Pink (Takahisa Zeze)]

Zeze usually writes the scripts for his films, which often contain examinations of social concerns not usually found in the "pink film" genre. His style is much less violent than Sato's, and rarely includes rape, one of the traditional thematic staples of the "pink film" from earliest times. Zeze also engages in more satire and self-conscious humor than is typical in the genre. He has the habit of giving his films eccentric titles during their production which the studios replace with a more commercially exploitable name before release. For example, Zeze's title "My Existence Is a Phenomenon Based on the Hypothesis of Blue Light Generated by Organic Currency" was changed to "Amazon Garden: Uniform Lesbians". He sometimes uses whimsical pseudonyms in his directorial credit, such as "Jean-Luc Zeze" or "South Pole #1". After a decade of making "pink films", Zeze turned to mainstream releases in 1997 with "Kokkuri". While continuing to work in the "pink film" genre, he has since directed several mainstream successes such as "Rush!", "Hysteric" and "Dog Star".cite web |url=http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/takahisa_zeze.shtml|title=Takahisa Zeze interview|accessdate=2007-10-04|work= [http://www.midnighteye.com/ midnighteye.com] |language=English] In 2002 Zeze was honored with a career retrospective at Italy's Far East Film Festival.

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