Mitsuru Meike

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title: "Mitsuru Meike" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1969-births", "japanese-male-film-actors", "japanese-film-directors", "pink-film-directors", "japanese-screenwriters", "living-people", "people-from-yokohama"] description: "Japanese actor and director" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuru_Meike" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Japanese actor and director ::

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Field	Value
name	Mitsuru Meike
birth_date
birth_place	Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
occupation	Film director, screenwriter, actor
yearsactive	1996–present
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| name = Mitsuru Meike | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor | yearsactive = 1996–present | spouse = | domesticpartner = | website = Mitsuru Meike 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" which comprises Meike, Toshiya Ueno, Yūji Tajiri, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshirō Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto.

Life and career

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" director, Toshiki Satō, whom he served as assistant director beginning in 1992. Meike's directorial debut was with the V-cinema film, Confinement (1996). He made his theatrical directorial debut in 1997 with Shintōhō 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.

Award-winning films

"Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix

• 1997 7th place: Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet
• 1998 8th place:
• 2002 5th place: Shameful Family: Pin Down Technique
• 2004 10th place: Bitter Sweet

Pinky Ribbon Awards

• 2004 Pearl Prize: Bitter Sweet

Bibliography

English

Japanese

References

|- ! colspan="3" style="background: #DAA520;" | Pink Grand Prix |- |title=Pink Grand Prix for New Best Director Mitsuru Meike |years=1997 **for Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet ** |before=Toshiro Enomoto for Forbidden Affair: Adulterous Wife Legs Spread Wide Open |after=Yoshitaka Kamata for Dangerous Affair: Drool of the Beast}} |- |title=Pink Grand Prix for Best Director Mitsuru Meike |years=2002 **for Shameful Family: Pin Down Technique ** |before=Tarō Araki for Sister-in-Law's Wet Thighs |after=Minoru Kunizawa for Irresistable Angel: Suck It All Up}}

References

1. "ja:女池 充: デビューを小分けに". Director's Guild of Japan.
2. Domenig, Roland. (2002). "Vital flesh: the mysterious world of Pink Eiga".
3. Sharp, Jasper. (2008). "Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema". FAB Press.
4. "Pink Films History". P.G. Web Site.
5. "Best Ten of 1997 (１９９７年度ベストテン)". P.G. Web Site.
6. "Best Ten of 2002 (２００２年度ベストテン)". P.G. Web Site.
7. Sharp. ''Behind the Pink Curtain'' (2008), pp. 318-319.
8. Sharp, Jasper. (4 December 2008). "Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global". [[The Japan Times]].

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