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.

Directed

1. Splatter: Naked Blood (1996) — Director
2. Rampo Noir (2005) — Director
3. Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987) — Director
4. An Aria on Gazes (1992) — Director
5. Pervert Ward: S&M Clinic (1989) — Director
6. The Fetist (1998) — Director
7. Re-Wind (1988) — Director
8. Uma to onna to inu (1990) — Director
9. Brain Sex (1988) — Director
10. Rafureshia (1995) — Director
11. Lustmord (1987) — Director
12. Love Letter in the Sand (1988) — Director
13. Muscle (1989) — Director
14. Love − Zero = Infinity (1994) — Director
15. Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (1988) — Director
16. OL renzoku rape: Kyonyû musaboru (1990) — Director
17. Tokyo Stray Girls (2010) — Director
18. Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi (1993) — Director
19. Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland (1996) — Director
20. Bondage Ecstasy (1989) — Director
21. Hanra honban: Joshidaisei bôkô-hen (1990) — Director
22. Turtle Vision (1991) — Director
23. Gimme Shelter (1986) — Director
24. Soft Skin (1998) — Director
25. Kyrie Eleison (1993) — Director
26. Bijin reporter: Boko nama-chukei (1989) — Director
27. Wife Collector (1985) — Director
28. Save the Last Dance for Me (1986) — Director
29. Umagoya no reijô (1991) — Director
30. Niizuma kahanshin: Washizukami (1991) — Director
31. Boko climax! (1987) — Director
32. Hana-Dama (2014) — Director
33. Silencer Made of Glass (1991) — Director
34. Uniform Virgin: The Prey (1986) — Director
35. Hunters' Sense of Touch (1995) — Director
36. Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku (1990) — Director
37. Temptation of the Mask (1987) — Director
38. Hitozuma gômon: Sandan-zeme (1992) — Director
39. Seifuku nusumi-dori-ma: Gekisha naburu (1990) — Director
40. Kaikan onanie: Niizuma-hen (1993) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi (1993) — Man drinking sake
2. Tokyo Elegy (1999) — Detective
3. Female Prisoners: Brutal Treatment (1984)
4. Pink Physical Examination (1985)
5. Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun (1985)
6. I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE (1996)
7. Wakazuma Misshitsu Bôkô Jiken (1985)
8. Cruising Love Story (1991) — Man in gay couple
9. Groper Train: Final Stop (1986) — Man groping school girl
10. Crying Rope, Missing Black Hair (1983)
11. Hometown Porn Girl 18! Seeding Festival (1984)
12. Young Wife Assault Pervert (1982)
13. Delivery Wife: Get Wet! (1984)
14. Groper Train: Start at the Back (1987) — Cameraman
15. Cross the Lens (2006) — Self
16. Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (2015)
17. In The Sea of Trees
18. Autumn (2016)
19. Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs): An Interview with Hisayasu Sato (2026) — Self
20. Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Satô: Part 2 (2026) — Self
21. Lost in the Bedroom: An interview with Kyôko Nakamura (2026) — Self
22. I'm Being Watched: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato (2026) — Self
23. Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Sato: Part 3 (2026) — Self
24. Revenge in S&M: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato (2026) — Self
25. Escape 3: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato (2026) — Self
26. Lord, Have Mercy: An Interview With Hisayasu Sato (2026) — Self