Hisayasu Satō

Directing

Hisayasu Satō

Born 1959-08-15 · Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

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.

Acting credits

Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi poster
5.7

A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing can seem flat and keep up hope. The meeting between these two lonely souls will bring unexpected consequences.

Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi

1993

Pink Physical Examination poster
4.0

In a hospital with a near sighted doctor, horny nurses, cosplaying patients and stiffs in the basement the only healing taking place is sexual.

Pink Physical Examination

1985

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE poster
2.0

Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction.

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE

1996

Tokyo Elegy poster
3.6

Fugitive Jack is doing everything in his power to evade both the police and gangsters. Assuming he’s in the clear, he moves in with Keiko, a pornstar whose early life in an abusive family still haunts her.

Tokyo Elegy

1999

Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun poster
4.0

Four monastic nuns must enter the materialistic and lusty outside world to save their church from a loan shark.

Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun

1985

Female Prisoners: Brutal Treatment poster
4.3

An outlaw hijacks a prison van for revenge. A merciless female detective must stop him...

Female Prisoners: Brutal Treatment

1984

Cruising Love Story poster
2.0

A junior high school teacher who happens to be a homosexual and falls in love with an extremely handsome young man he meets by chance in Hatten Park. The directorial debut of Ryuji Yamamoto.

Cruising Love Story

1991

Autumn poster
NR

Mamoru Miyamoto is a book editor and his friend Masao Muraoka is a writer. Muraoka hasn't released a novel since "Aki no Riyuu." Masao has suffered from mental health issues and, because of this, his voice fails. The two men talk through written notes. It seems Mamoru believes in Masao’s talent as a writer and waits for him to write a new novel, but he also likes Masao's wife Misaki. One day, Miku, who has read Masao’s last novel “Aki no Riyuu” several times, appears in front of him. She tells him that she is so similar to the heroine of the novel and can understand his mind.

Autumn

2016

No artwork available
2.0

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Young Wife Assault Pervert

1982

Groper Train: Final Stop poster
2.0

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Groper Train: Final Stop

1986

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague poster
NR

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

2015

Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Sato: Part 3 poster
NR

Hisayasu Satô revisits the locations in Shinjuku where he shot "Kyrie Eleison", "Turtle Vision" and "Rafureshia". (bonus feature on the "The Films of Hisayasu Satô: Volume #3" Bluray set released by Vinegar Syndrome).

Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Sato: Part 3

2026

Lost in the Bedroom: An interview with Kyôko Nakamura poster
NR

An interview with actress Kyôko Nakamura about her role in "An Aria on Gazes" (bonus feature on the "An Aria on Gazes" Bluray released by Vinegar Syndrome).

Lost in the Bedroom: An interview with Kyôko Nakamura

2026

Wakazuma Misshitsu Bôkô Jiken poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wakazuma Misshitsu Bôkô Jiken

1985

Cross the Lens poster
NR

Making of documentary for 'Rampo Noir'

Cross the Lens

2006

Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs): An Interview with Hisayasu Sato poster
NR

"Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs)": an interview with director Hisayasu Satô about "Love-Zero=Infinity" (bonus feature on the "Love-Zero=Infinity" Bluray released by Vinegar Syndrome).

Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs): An Interview with Hisayasu Sato

2026

No artwork available
2.0

Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

Hometown Porn Girl 18! Seeding Festival

1984

Groper Train: Start at the Back poster
2.0

A writer fantasies about his sister Masaki, an aspiring actress, and writes a screenplay about it. After several rides on the train to acting class, she reads the script.

Groper Train: Start at the Back

1987

Escape 3: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato poster
NR

An interview with Hisayasu Sato about Rafureshia (bonus feature on the "The Films of Hisayasu Satô: Volume #3" Bluray set released by Vinegar Syndrome).

Escape 3: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato

2026

Revenge in S&M: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato poster
NR

An interview with Hisayasu Satô about "Turtle Vision" (bonus feature on the "The Films of Hisayasu Satô: Volume #3" Bluray set released by Vinegar Syndrome).

Revenge in S&M: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato

2026

No artwork available
2.0

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Delivery Wife: Get Wet!

1984

I'm Being Watched: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato poster
NR

An interview with director Hisayasu Satô about "An Aria on Gazes" (bonus feature on the "An Aria on Gazes" Bluray released by Vinegar Syndrome).

I'm Being Watched: An Interview with Hisayasu Sato

2026

Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Satô: Part 2 poster
NR

Hisayasu Satô revisits the locations in Shinjuku where he shot "An Aria on Gazes" and "Love - Zero = Infinity" (bonus feature on the "Love-Zero=Infinity" Bluray released by Vinegar Syndrome).

Walking in Circles: Shinjuku with Hisayasu Satô: Part 2

2026

No artwork available
2.0

Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.

Crying Rope, Missing Black Hair

1983

Behind the camera

Save the Last Dance for Me poster
3.3

The true story of a pair of college students who attempted a double suicide to end their doomed romance becomes fare for legendary pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato in this feature. Fatalistic and sad, this is one of the more depressing Japanese softcore films, and Sato makes it even worse by including footage from the lovers’ actual 8 mm experimental film throughout the story

Save the Last Dance for Me

1986

Uniform Virgin: The Prey poster
4.2

A sullen horny student stalks female students in the endless hallways of a desolate high school with a video camera. But are his violent and abusive recordings fantasies or reality?

Uniform Virgin: The Prey

1986

Wife Collector poster
5.4

A taxi driving, punk rock listening, serial rapist with a bad attitude picks up female fares, sedates them with gas and takes them to his grungy lair where he video tapes his sexual abuse.

Wife Collector

1985

Splatter: Naked Blood poster
5.8

A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.

Splatter: Naked Blood

1996

OL renzoku rape: Kyonyû musaboru poster
3.9

Following cosmetic surgery to enhance her breasts, an office worker is raped. The rapist's son, after setting his distinctly Oedipal gaze on his father's busty victim, locates her and they begin an ill-fated sadomasochistic affair that leads to a bloody killing spree.

OL renzoku rape: Kyonyû musaboru

1990

Price of a Married Woman: Perfume of Desires poster
NR

A lonely guy is stealing garbage and then reading people's sex lives by sniffing and analyzing the waste. When his new neighbors introduce themselves to him, he becomes obsessed with the pretty wife next door. The poor girl is unhappy in her marriage and her husband can't get it up for her. When the neighbor stumbles home blind drunk one night, he reveals to that he's a chemist working on an aphrodisiac and gives our hero a sample to try.

Price of a Married Woman: Perfume of Desires

2001

Unacceptable Married Love Affair Special poster
NR

Three part omnibus film on the subject of infidelity.

Unacceptable Married Love Affair Special

2003

Rampo Noir poster
5.7

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

Rampo Noir

2005

Tokyo Stray Girls poster
4.5

A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.

Tokyo Stray Girls

2010

Lolita: Vibrator Torture poster
5.6

High school student Kozue spreads flyers in search of her missing classmate. A psychopath lures her to his place, where he imprisons her. The psychopath gets his kicks by raping his victims with a chrome vibrator, poisoning them then photographing them as they die. However, when Kozue doesn’t act like his typical victims they start up a strange and twisted relationship.

Lolita: Vibrator Torture

1987

Re-Wind poster
5.9

An investigation into a videotape that shows the results of a brutal murder committed using a knife-equipped camera.

Re-Wind

1988

Uma to onna to inu poster
5.8

Three social outcasts who live near the seaside interact with each other in increasingly disturbing ways. The trio of characters are a woman who has killed her sister, a man who enjoys necrophilia, and a female amnesiac. The first woman engages in sadistic pursuits such as capturing young women at the beach to force them to engage in sexual activities, including copulation with a horse and a dog.

Uma to onna to inu

1990

An Aria on Gazes poster
5.2

Housewife Kyoko begins moonlighting at a mysterious sex club as a means of rebelling against her boring salaryman husband Akihito. The Bedroom isn’t like any normal club, though: the female hostesses all take the powerful sedative Halcion to sleep through their encounters with the male clientele.

An Aria on Gazes

1992

Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi poster
5.7

A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing can seem flat and keep up hope. The meeting between these two lonely souls will bring unexpected consequences.

Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi

1993

Pervert Ward: S&M Clinic poster
5.5

An abusive psychologist enjoys torturing and abusing his wife. After rough sexual session of pain and dominance she decides to leave her husband. Then her masochistic twin sister arrives and of course plenty of kinky sexual torture and bondage happens next.

Pervert Ward: S&M Clinic

1989

Negation poster
3.3

A mentally disturbed prostitute claims to have lost her baby in a heavy S&M session. As she begins a similar relationship with a man whose wife left him because of his kinky urges, their mutual mental deterioration leads them down a spiral toward a double-suicide pact.

Negation

1993

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland poster
5.6

Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland

1996

Silencer Made of Glass poster
3.5

An unstable lab technician develops a crush on her new assistant and uses an unscrupulous man with an unusual device to get closer to her.

Silencer Made of Glass

1991

Lustmord poster
5.0

Eiji, a teenager eager to follow in his late father's scientific footsteps perfects one of his old experiments to diminish the barrier between pain and pleasure.

Lustmord

1987

Sensual Forest Beauty poster
NR

A writer retreats to her home in the woods, searching for inspiration. Inspired by illustrations, she soon awakens with a woodsman.

Sensual Forest Beauty

2002

Love Letter in the Sand poster
5.8

During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mystery assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing people with a metal bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect that he may in fact be the assailant. But her own strange erotic fixations with him, and the questionable involvement of the doctor tasked with the amnesia victim, lead them all down an increasingly twisted path of deeply-rooted trauma and violence.

Love Letter in the Sand

1988

Love − Zero = Infinity poster
5.0

Takeshi, an alienated young man spends his lonely days obsessively following total strangers. He is employed to observe the movements of a beautiful but disturbed doctor, whose behavior is causing concern. As Takeshi continues to track her, a bond begins to grow between them, a bond which can only end in tragedy...

Love − Zero = Infinity

1994

Gimme Shelter poster
5.1

The mother does half-nude aerobics until her son rapes her, and the daughter falls into bed with a female teacher. Despite the shocking goings-on, the film is much more in keeping with Sato's usual themes of alienation and corrupted innocence than its brutal predecessor.

Gimme Shelter

1986

Turtle Vision poster
5.7

A professional voyeuristic filmmaker is hired to acquire footage of prostitutes; during the process, his camera lands on a woman with a troubled past.

Turtle Vision

1991