Hisayasu Satō
Biography
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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Movies (50)
Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Sato: Part 3
as Self
2026
Revenge in S&M: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato
as Self
2026
Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs): An Interview with Hisayasu Sato
as Self
2026
Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Satô: Part 2
as Self
2026
Lost in the Bedroom: An interview with Kyôko Nakamura
as Self
2026
I'm Being Watched: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato
as Self
2026
Dear Kaita Ablaze
Director (Directing)
2023
Cute Devil
Director (Directing)
2018
Autumn
2016
The Eye's Dream
Director (Directing)
2016
Hana-Dama: Phantom
Director (Directing)
2016
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Hana-Dama
Director (Directing)
2014
Tokyo Stray Girls
Director (Directing)
2010
Cross the Lens
as Self
2006
Shisei: The Tattooer
Director (Directing)
2006
Rampo Noir
Director (Directing)
2005
Unacceptable Married Love Affair Special
Director (Directing)
2003
W bakunyū sūpāsōpu
Director (Directing)
2003
Bācharu ☆ sōpu
Director (Directing)
2003
Sensual Forest Beauty
Director (Directing)
2002
Price of a Married Woman: Perfume of Desires
Director (Directing)
2001
Sabaku
Producer (Production)
2000
Tokyo Elegy
as Detective
1999
The Fetist
Director (Directing)
1998
Soft Skin
Director (Directing)
1998
I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE
1996
Night of Body's Model
Director (Directing)
1996
In a Thicket
Director (Directing)
1996
Splatter: Naked Blood
Director (Directing)
1996
Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland
Director (Directing)
1996
Hunters' Sense of Touch
Director (Directing)
1995
Rafureshia
Director (Directing)
1995
Abnormal Hunting: Mourning Slave V
Director (Directing)
1994
Love − Zero = Infinity
Director (Directing)
1994
Wakaoku-sama: Futomono-biraki
Director (Directing)
1994
Chikan to nozoki: fujin-ka byôtô
Director (Directing)
1994
Hitozuma hentai biyoshitsu
Director (Directing)
1994
Megyaku to haji tai takano hitomi
Director (Directing)
1994
Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi
as Man drinking sake
1993
Angel in the Dark
Director (Directing)
1993
Kaikan onanie: Niizuma-hen
Director (Directing)
1993
Kyrie Eleison
Director (Directing)
1993
Negation
Director (Directing)
1993
Dirty Blue
Director (Directing)
1992
Seifuku onanie: Shojo no shitagi
Director (Directing)
1992
An Aria on Gazes
Director (Directing)
1992
Labyrinth of Primary Colors
Director (Directing)
1992
Honban: Vibe sekkan
Director (Directing)
1992
Umagoya no reijô
Director (Directing)
1991