Directing
Hisayasu Satō
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.
Titles
Pink Physical Examination
1985
Birthday
1993
Tokyo Elegy
1999
I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE
1996
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Female Prisoners: Brutal Treatment
1984
Escape 3: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato
2026
Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Sato: Part 3
2026
Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Satô: Part 2
2026
Revenge in S&M: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato
2026
I'm Being Watched: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato
2026
Lost in the Bedroom: An interview with Kyôko Nakamura
2026
Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs): An Interview with Hisayasu Sato
2026
Lord, Have Mercy: An Interview With Hisayasu Sato
2026
Cross the Lens
2006
Cruising Love Story
1991
Hometown Porn Girl 18! Seeding Festival
1984
Groper Train: Final Stop
1986
Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun
1985
Autumn
2016
Wakazuma Misshitsu Bôkô Jiken
1985
In The Sea of Trees
Groper Train: Start at the Back
1987
Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Satô: Part 1
2025