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) 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" (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, 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. 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.
"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)2004 Pearl Prize: Bitter Sweet (濃厚不倫 とられた女, Nōkō furin torareta onna)Assistant Director
2019
Tsundere musume: Okute na shotaiken (assistant director)
2017
Itoshi no Nora, shiawase no meguriai (first assistant director)
2017
Ore to aitsu no shûkin ryokô (assistant director)
2000
Hate shinai yokujô: Mowaseste! (assistant director)
1999
Aiyoku onsen: Bihada no numeri (assistant director)
1999
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (assistant director)
1997
Akai hankô: Yume no ato shimatsu (assistant director)
1997
Hakui honban: Hageshii aegi (assistant director)
1996
Ikasetai onna (assistant director)
1996
Furin nikki: Nureta mama mô ichidô (assistant director)
1996
Closing Time (assistant director)
1995
Monzetsu honban: buchikomu! (first assistant director)
1995
Honban!! Dosukebe fûfu (assistant director)
1994
Meiki no himitsu: Chijo santai (assistant director)
1994
Inran reijô: Yagai gyaku rape (assistant director)
1994
Kyonyû hisho: Gyaku rape (assistant director)
1994
Kinjo no obasan: Otoko asari (assistant director)
1994
Nozoki ga ippai: Aijin no nama-shitagi (assistant director)
1994
Tonarino okusan (assistant director)
1994
Tandem (assistant director)
1994
Renzoku onanie: Midareppanashi (first assistant director)
1994
Honban jugyô: Kyonyû ni bukkakero! (assistant director)
1993
Naomi (assistant director)
1993
Oneesan no onanii (assistant director)
1993
Binyû: Momikucha (assistant director)
1993
Mibôjin shower onanie (assistant director)
Director
2014
Tsukudzuku zubo~tsu! Son'nani shitara dame... watashi, cho binkan'na ndesu! Kon'na jukujo to shite mitai supesharu (Video)
2006
The Making of 'Sachiko Hanai' (Video documentary short)
2004
Nôkô furin: torareta onna
2003
Hatsujô kateikyôshi: Sensei no aijiru
2002
Swapping Night: Kikenna Tawamure
2002
Harenchi family: Newaza de ippatsu
2000
Tain OL: Asa made nukanaide
1998
Gushonure biyôshi: Sukebena kahanshin
1997
Hakui inran nikki: Nureta mama nido, sando
Writer
2006
The Making of 'Sachiko Hanai' (Video documentary short)
2002
Swapping Night: Kikenna Tawamure
1998
Gushonure biyôshi: Sukebena kahanshin (screenplay)
1997
Ike-ike densha: Hamete, ikasete, yamenaide! (screenplay)
Actor
2004
Danchi no okusan dosokai ni iku
Producer
2006
The Making of 'Sachiko Hanai' (Video documentary short) (producer)
2002
Lost virgin: Yamitsuki enjo kôsai (co-producer)
Self
2006
The Making of 'Sachiko Hanai' (Video documentary short) as
Self
2004
Pink Ribbon (Documentary) as
Self