Career
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. 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).
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 West. Bush"s finger, capable of releasing the United States."s nuclear arsenal, ensues. The film became a surprise international hit, playing at 20 film festivals and having a theatrical release in the United States. 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)
Pinky Ribbon 2004 Pearl Prize: Bitter Sweet (濃厚不倫 とられた女, Nōkō furin torareta onna).
