Director

Hisayasu Satō

Directing

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Very extensive directing filmography.

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Directed movies: 84Directed series: 0All crew credits: 86

TMDB ID: 138865

IMDb ID: nm0766211

Known for: Directing

Born: August 15, 1959

Age: 66

Place of birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1983 - 2026

Years active: 44

Average TMDB rating: 5.58

Wikidata: Q3136486

Also known as

幡寿一

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Director (65)Assistant Director (9)First Assistant Director (9)Second Assistant Director (1)Producer (1)Screenplay (1)

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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.