Yutaka Ikejima

Yutaka Ikejima (池島ゆたか) is a Japanese film director, actor, and producer. Considered the most successful filmmaker in the pink film genre in the 2000s, his films are popular with traditional pink film audiences, fans of cinema, and with critics. Because of his prolific contributions to the pink film he has earned the nickname "Mr. Pink".

Life and career
 "[Pink Eiga] is my lifework because it lets me earn money, play leading roles and touch naked women." -- Yutaka Ikejima

Yutaka Ikejima was born on March 30, 1948. He studied Literature at Waseda University. He first entered the entertainment business in the late 1970s as an actor with Shuji Terayama's theatrical group Tenjō Sajiki.

His film debut was in the 1981 Genji Nakamura pink film Semi Documentary: Housewife Prostitution Team aka Document Porno: Married Woman Prostitution Techniques. In contrast to his stage career, in his screen work, Ikejima has stayed in the erotic genres. Between 1981 and 1988 he appeared in over 500 softcore pink films, working for such directors as Hisayasu Satō, Yōjirō Takita and Ryūichi Hiroki. Ikejima appeared in Satō's gay-themed Temptation of the Mask (1987), a film significant for joining three of the "Four Devils" or "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王) in one work. Ikejima became one of Zeze Takahisa's "Zeze-gumi" (Zeze-group) of regulars including Takeshi Itō, Yōta Kawase and Yumeka Sasaki. Though most awarded and recognized as a director, Ikejima has continued acting to the present day.

He began his directorial career in 1988, at first working mainly in AVs (adult videos). His cinematic theatrical debut as a director was The Masturbating Lesbian (ザ・ＯＮＡＮＩＥレズ) (1991). Through his production company Cement Match, Ikejima both stages plays and self-produces film. Cement Match has made films for all of the major pink film distribution companies, but most often produces for OP Eiga. Through this company he has produced such prominent pink films as Daisuke Goto's A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn (2003) and ENK's The Gays in Wonderland (1997). Also active in gay-themed films in both acting and directing careers, the 1996 gay film, Love Me Danger, directed by Ikejima, was chosen the 6th Best Film at the Pink Grand Prix. His Men Who Love (2002) was one of the first pink films to be shown at the Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

In his pink film directorial career, Ikejima usually collaborates with his wife, screenwriter Kyōko Godai, who had previously made a name for herself scripting for Hisayasu Satō. Known for his professionalism and efficiency, when the original pink film version of The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai went over-budget and behind schedule (because of its ambition and precarious production history, Jasper Sharp characterizes it as the Apocalypse Now of the pink film world), Ikejima was called in to film a temporary replacement, a task he accomplished in a few days. In 2008 Ikejima directed his 100th pink film, an accomplishment for which he was given a special award at the Pink Grand Prix.

Top-ten films, Pink Grand Prix: As director

 * 1994 9th place (tie): Real Underwear Body (本番下半身)
 * 1995 2nd place: Sexual Desires in the Ladies' Restroom: Dripping! (色情女子便所　したたる！)
 * 1995 4th place: Mistake (ミステイク)
 * 1996 4th place: SM Teacher: Tied Up by Students (ＳＭ教師　教え子に縛られて)
 * 1996 6th place (tie): Love Me Danger (危なく愛して　LOVE ME DANGER)
 * 1996 6th place (tie): Kogal*KoMadam*Wife*Beautiful Mature Woman: Lewd Carnival (コギャル・コマダム・人妻・美熟女　淫乱謝肉祭)
 * 1997 4th place: Beautiful Secretary: Rip Off the Panty Hose (美人秘書　パンストを剥ぐ)
 * 1998 1st place: Twilight Dinner (超いんらん　姉妹どんぶり)
 * 1998 4th place: This Sort of Couple (こんな、ふたり)
 * 1998 6th place: Report on Blind Passion: Shameless (痴情報道　悦辱肉しびれ)
 * 1998 7th place: The Bride's Vibrator: Drilling (花嫁バイブ淫行　えぐる)
 * 2000 7th place: Sex Guy's Inn: Women's Wiggling Asses (性奴の宿　うごめく女尻)
 * 2000 9th place: Lolita-Colored Underpants (ロリ色の生下着)
 * 2002 3rd place: Office Lady's Sexual Confession: Burning Love Affair (ＯＬ性告白　燃えつきた情事)
 * 2002 8th place: Obscene Stalker: It Holds in Darkness! (猥褻ストーカー　暗闇で抱いて！)
 * 2002 9th place: Delivery Health Girl: The Moisture of Silken Skin (デリヘル嬢　絹肌のうるおい)
 * 2003 2nd place: Adulterous Wife's Dirty Afternoon (不倫妻の淫らな午後)
 * 2003 9th place: Men Who Love (恋する男たち)
 * 2004 Honorable Mention: Wife Taxi: Crowded with Big Tits (人妻タクシー　巨乳に乗り込め)
 * 2005 9th place: Snake that Makes the Wife Moist: Extreme SM Compilation (人妻を濡らす蛇　－ＳＭ至極編－)
 * 2005 10th place: The Snake that Makes the Kimono's Underwear Moist: SM Compilation (襦袢を濡らす蛇　－ＳＭ開華編－)
 * 2006 3rd place: Hostess Madness: Unparched Nectar
 * 2006 5th place: Shōwa Erotic Romance: The Virgin's Bashfulness (昭和エロ浪漫　生娘の恥じらい)
 * 2006 6th place: Mature Woman: Wife-Hunting (熟女 人妻狩り)
 * 2007 8th place: Fascinating Woman: The Temptation of Creampie (奪う女　中出しの誘惑)
 * 2008 1st place: Chō Inran: Yarebayaruhodo Iikimochi (超いんらん　やればやるほどいい気持ち)
 * 2008 4th place: Hanjuku Baishun: Itohiku Aishiru (半熟売春　糸ひく愛汁)
 * 2008 6th place: Best Friend's Wife: The Black Panties of a Secret Rendezvous (親友の妻　密会の黒下着)

Pinky Ribbon Awards

 * 2008 Gold Prize: Chō Inran: Yarebayaruhodo Iikimochi (超いんらん　やればやるほどいい気持ち)
 * 2008 Pearl Prize: Hanjuku Baishun: Itohiku Aishiru (半熟売春 糸ひく愛汁)