Mitsuru Meike

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| birth_place = Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor

| yearsactive = 1996–present

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{{nihongo|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 {{nihongo|"Seven Lucky Gods of Pink"|ピンク七福神|shichifukujin}} which comprises Meike, Toshiya Ueno, Yūji Tajiri, Shinji Imaoka, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshirō Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto.{{cite web |url=http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|title=Vital flesh: the mysterious world of Pink Eiga|accessdate=2009-06-17|last=Domenig|first=Roland|year=2002|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041118094603/http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|archivedate=2004-11-18}}

Life and career

Mitsuru Meike's introduction to the film industry was as assistant director to prominent female pink film director Sachi Hamano.{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|page= 317|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}} He later worked at Outcast Produce with Toshiya Ueno and under the mentorship of {{nihongo|"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. Meike's directorial debut was with the V-cinema film, {{nihongo|Confinement|監禁|Kankin}} (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.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/history/history.htm|title=Pink Films History|accessdate=2009-06-21|language=Japanese|publisher=P.G. Web Site|archive-date=2012-08-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805205210/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/history/history.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/1997.htm|title=Best Ten of 1997 (１９９７年度ベストテン)|accessdate=January 18, 2009|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2002.htm|title=Best Ten of 2002 (２００２年度ベストテン)|accessdate=January 18, 2009|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=Japanese}}

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.Sharp. Behind the Pink Curtain (2008), pp. 318-319. The film became a surprise international hit, playing at 20 film festivals and having a theatrical release in the U.S. in 2006.{{cite web |first=Jasper |last=Sharp |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20081204r1.html|title=Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global|date=4 December 2008 |accessdate=2009-06-21|publisher=The Japan Times}}

Award-winning films

="Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix=

1997 7th place: {{nihongo|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: {{nihongo2|ぐしょ濡れ美容師　すけべな下半身}}
2002 5th place: {{nihongo|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: {{nihongo|Bitter Sweet|濃厚不倫　とられた女|Nōkō furin: torareta onna}}

=Pinky Ribbon Awards=

2004 Pearl Prize: {{nihongo|Bitter Sweet|濃厚不倫とられた女|Nōkō furin torareta onna}}

Bibliography

=English=

{{IMDb name|id=0576805|name=Mitsuru Meike (I)}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/person63964.htm|title=MITSURU MEIKE|accessdate=2009-06-21|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|pages= 317–20, 350–51, etc.|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}

=Japanese=

{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_p.php?num_p=250926|script-title=ja:女池充めいけ・みつる|accessdate=2009-06-21|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0169770.htm|script-title=ja:女池充|accessdate=2009-06-21|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
{{cite web |url=http://search.varietyjapan.com/moviedb/person_127334.html|script-title=ja:女池充（メイケミツル）|accessdate=2009-06-21|publisher=Variety Japan|language=Japanese|title=Variety Japan }}
{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010210949/http://www.dgj.or.jp/modules/contents6/index.php?id=45|archivedate=2007-10-10|url=http://www.dgj.or.jp/modules/contents6/index.php?id=45|script-title=ja:女池充|accessdate=2009-06-22|publisher= Director's Guild of Japan|language=Japanese}}
{{cite web|date=2005-12-05|first=Ayako|last=Fujimori|url=http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report4142.html|title=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)|accessdate=2009-06-22|publisher=www.walkerplus.com|language=Japanese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104000124/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report4142.html|archive-date=2009-01-04|url-status=dead}}