Takahisa Zeze

is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he has directed such major commercial hits as 64: Part I, 64: Part II, and The 8-Year Engagement, while continuing to make independent art films like Heaven's Story and The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine.

Life and career "I try to show relationships, I make films about love. It's not just about the act of having sex, but what leads up to it and what comes after. What are the feelings of the people before, while they do it and after they did it? It's this development that interests me. I don't care very much about rape, because it's very one-sided and doesn't allow for this kind of development... I don't want to depict characters as having sex, but as making love."-- 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.

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. In 2002 Zeze was honored with a career retrospective at Italy's Far East Film Festival. Zeze's title Release date Studio Extracurricular Activity: Rape!課外授業 暴行Kagai Jugyo: Boko Go to Haneda and You Will See Kids Dressed like Pirates Ready to Attack 1989-06-24 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Beast Lust: Devil Rampage獣欲魔 乱行Juyoku-ma Ranko Blue Sky 1989-12-02 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Indecent Tongue Technique破廉恥舌戯テクニックHarenchi Zetsugi Technique Moon Over the Desert June 1990 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Molester's Train: Rie's Fundoshi Underwear痴漢電車 りえのフンドシChikan Densha: Rie no Fundoshi Coconut Crush June 1990 Media Top/Shintōhō Eiga Obscene Runaway Gang: Beast猥褻暴走集団 獣 Waisetsu Boso Shudan: Kemono Noman's Land 1991-05-18 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Amazon Garden: Uniform Lesbians禁男の園 ザ・制服レズ Kindan no Sono: The Seifuku Les My Existence Is a Phenomenon Based on the Hypothesis of Blue Light Generated by Organic Currency 1992-10-10 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Molester's Train: Mischievous Wives痴漢電車 いけない妻たちChikan Densha: Ikenai Tsuma-tachi My Train Is Supposed to be Going North But It's Going South 1992-11-28 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Widow: Bliss on the Seventh Day of Mourning未亡人 初七日の悶えMibojin: Shonanuka no Modae The Monk Farted 1993-03-19 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Widow: Bliss in a Mourning Dress未亡人 喪服の悶えMibojin: Mofuku no Modae Modern Story About Bandits 1993-11-19 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga High Class Bathhouse Sex Technique: Blissful Secret Acts高級ソープテクニック4 悶絶秘戯Kokyu Soap Technique: Monzetsu HigiThe Dream of Garuda Dream of the Phoenix 1994-04-22 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Genuine Lesbian: Embarrassing Position本番レズ 恥ずかしい体位Honban Les: Hazukashii Taii Fallen Angels in September 1994-11-25 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Lots of Dirty StuffすけべてんこもりSukebe Tenkomori End of the World 1995-07-28 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Endless Sex終わらないセックス Owaranai Sex Night-Chirping Locust 1995-09-15 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Red Love Affair赫い情事Akai Joji The Expected Scene 1996-01-12 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Kokkuri / Fox SpiritKOKKURI・こっくりさん Kokkuri-san 1997-05-24 Nikkatsu Woman with Black Underwear: Snake-Headed Fish黒い下着の女 雷魚Kuroi Shitagi no Onna: Raigyo 1997-05-31 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Anarchy in Japansuke: The Woman Who Comes When Watchedアナーキー・インじゃぱんすけ 見られてイク女Anaakii in jyapansuke: mirarete iku onna 1999-04-23 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Hysteric I Don't Want to Let You Go Until Dawn 2000-05-06 Legend Pictures Tokyo X Eroticaトーキョー×エロティカ 痺れる快楽Tokyo X Erotica: Shibireru Kairaku 2001-08-31 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Rush! 2001-06-23 ElkInfinity Dog Starドッグ・スター 2002-04-27 Omega Micott Inc./Legend Pictures SF Whipped Cream 2002-12-14 Twins Japan Moon Child 2003-04-19 Shochiku/Mainichi Shimbun/WoWow Yuda「エロス番長」シリーズ ユダ "Eros Honban" Series: Yuda 2004-08-21 EuroSpace A Gap in the Skin肌の隙間Hada no Sukima 2004-12-07 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga Sanctuary 2006-10-07 Legend Pictures Shisei: Ochita Jorōgumo 2007-01-13 NTT Resonant/Art Port Heaven's Story 2010-10-02 Antoki no Inochi 2011-11 Shochiku Strayer's Chronicle 2015-06-27 64: Part I 2016-05-07 64: Part II 2016-06-11 Nariyuki na Tamashii 2017 The 8-Year Engagement 2017 Shochiku The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine 2018 My Friend "A" 2018 The Promised Land 2019 Kadokawa Threads: Our Tapestry of Love 2020 Toho In the Wake 2021 Shochiku Tomorrow's Dinner Table 2021 Kadokawa Fragments of the Last Will 2022 Toho One Last Bloom 2023 Gaga The Boy and the Dog 2025 Toho Sukiyaki 2026 Toho Cry Out 2026 Tokyo Theatres All That Exists 2027 Toei