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best known for his '' pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors,

Takahisa Zeze is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic ''pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he ha ...

Kazuhiro Sano is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his '' pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki Satō and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . Sano's films differ from those of o ...

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Hisayasu Satō is a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the genre of '' pinku eiga'' films, which refers to Japanese films that prominently feature nudity or sexual content. His best-known works are the 1992 pink film ''The Bedr ...

, he is known as one of the .

Life and career

Toshiki Satō was born in 1961 and graduated from Nikkatsu Arts School. After graduation, Satō was scheduled to make his directorial debut in 1986 with the pink film studio,

Million Film was one of the early independent studios which produced pink films. Along with OP Eiga, Shintōhō Eiga, Kantō and Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio, Million Film was one of the most influential on the genre during its first decade. Many of t ...

, but this project was canceled when the studio ceased production that year. Satō worked as an AV (Adult Video) director for a few years, and made two films for

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's post-Roman Porno subsidiary, Nikkatsu Video, in 1988. His debut film was the unsuccessful

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''pink film'' drama, ''The Beast''.

AV idol An or is a type of pornographic film actress in Japan. It is a sub-category of the idol culture in Japanese pop entertainment. AV idols work in the pornographic business, often both as an actress as well as a model as the video performances ...

Maya Asabuki starred in this film judged "light on drama, but heavy on sex scenes."Weisser, p.480. Though he often collaborates, Satō usually writes or co-write his own scripts. His films deal with the difficulties of relationships in modern society, and his typical subject matter includes "pornographers, panty-sniffers, lesbians, and lusty murderers." His films often end with the protagonist committing suicide in spectacular style. The director's stylistic concerns began to show themselves in his second film, ''E-Cup Action Take Two: Rich and Ripe'' (1989).

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calls ''Latest Bathhouse Sex Technique: Palace of the Soapsud Princess'' (

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) an oddly moving film, and one of Satō's most erotic. ''Soaking Wet: Touching All Over the Body'' (1990), had an upbeat tone, somewhat atypical for Satō. Actor Tōru Nakane was lauded by the mainstream critics for his performance in the film. ''That's Hentatainment! Perverted Sex Document'' (

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) is an exploration of gender which could be interpreted as either a gay or a straight film, depending upon one's personal definitions of gender. Satō followed this tale of transsexualism with ''Abnormal Ecstasy'', another, more psychological treatment of the same subject the same year. In

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Satō made the two-part mainstream ''Fighting Dragon Story'', but continued in the ''pink film'' genre after that. '' Atashi wa juice'' (1996), the second in a series of theatrical releases by Fujii TV, was a popular and profitable lesbian erotic film.

Partial filmography

References

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