Hisayasu Satô

Born: 1959-08-15

Hisayasu Sato is a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the pinku eiga genre. He is known for his "sledgehammer" filmmaking style, and using his exploitation career to tackle serious subjects like obsession, alienation, perversion and voyeurism. He is famous for his "guerilla shooting technique" in which his actors appear on location in public and incorporate unknowing bystanders into the film. Hisayasu Sato’s often violent but highly visual works utilised a multitude of multimedia devices to reflect upon issues such as the power of the gaze, the dehumanising effects of technology and the loss of the individual’s sense of “self” that accompanied Japan’s period of economic boom in the late 80s.


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Tokyo Elegy

as Detective
Released: 1999-08-14

Fugitive Jack is doing everything in his power to evade both the police and gangsters. Assuming...

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I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE

as uncredited
Released: 1996-11-08

Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex,...

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Cross the Lens

as Self
Released: 2006-07-01

Making of documentary for 'Rampo Noir'

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Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

as uncredited
Released: 2015-06-16

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin,...

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Autumn

as uncredited
Released: 2016-10-29

Mamoru Miyamoto is a book editor and his friend Masao Muraoka is a writer. Muraoka hasn't...

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