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, and actor. He is one of the group of prominent ''

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'' directors known collectively as the which comprises Meike,

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Shinji Imaoka a.k.a. is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of a group of '' pink film'' directors of the 2000s known collectively as the , which besides Imaoka, also includes Toshiya Ueno, Mitsuru Meike, Yūji Tajiri, Yoshitaka ...

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, Toshirō Enomoto and

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Life and career

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. He later worked at Outcast Produce with

and under the mentorship of director,

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, whom he served as assistant director beginning in 1992. Meike's directorial debut was with the

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film, (1996). He made his theatrical directorial debut in 1997 with

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's ''Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet'' for which he won the Best New Director prize at the

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. 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

. Meike is one of the most experimental and daring of the ''shichifukujin'' directors. His 2003 film ''

The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (2003) was introduced as a pink film, with the title but it developed into a cult hit and the producers allowed director Mitsuru Meike to expand it into its present form. In 2007 the film was featured at the Santa Barbara International Film Fes ...

'' 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

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'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: * 1998 8th place: * 2002 5th place: * 2004 10th place:

Pinky Ribbon Awards

* 2004 Pearl Prize:

Bibliography

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References

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