Takahisa Zeze

Takahisa Zeze was born in 1960 and graduated from Kyoto University in 1986. While attending this prestigious university, Zeze began making experimental films. He began his career in the film industry working for Shishi Productions as a screenwriter and assistant director for various pink film directors, including Hisayasu Satō.{{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=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|page=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|website=Midnight Eye|accessdate=2007-10-04}} In 2002 Zeze was honored with a career retrospective at Italy's Far East Film Festival.

He often works with the cinematographer Kōichi Saitō.

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/takahisa_zeze.shtml|title=Takahisa Zeze interview|website=Midnight Eye|accessdate=2007-10-04}}
• {{cite web|url=http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:225499|title=Takahisa Zeze|accessdate=2007-10-04|work=Allmovie|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426195934/http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg|archivedate=2006-04-26}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/person43883.htm|title=Takahisa Zeze|accessdate=2007-07-01|work=The Complete Index to World Film}}
• {{imdb name|id=0955270|name=Takahisa Zeze}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0212420.htm|title=瀬々敬久 (Takahisa Zeze)|language=Japanese|accessdate=2007-07-01|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• {{cite web |first=Miho |last=Toda |date =2003-03-04|url=http://channel.slowtrain.org/news/special006/sp6_009/index.html|title=Takahisa Zeze Interview|accessdate=2009-07-23|publisher=channel.slowtrain.org|language=Japanese}}
• {{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=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=487–492|chapter=Spotlight: Four Kings of Pink (Takahisa Zeze)}}

• {{IMDb name|0955270}}

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Takahisa Zeze

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for Upcoming Scenery}}

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Takahisa Zeze

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for Upcoming Scenery

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for Endless Sex

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for Sisters Donburi: No Pulling Out}}

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Category:1960 births

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