Hisayasu Satō

Dear Kaita Ablaze (2023)

This avant-garde entertainment film depicts a group of young people today who are fascinated by the works of Keita Murayama (a Taisho era painter who died prematurely at the age of 22) and who revive Keita's works with their own unique interpretations. ...

Cute Devil (2018)

A man who's having an affair with one of his employees gets his penis cut off by the womans husband while she's watching. This case is big news and a man who claim to be a journalist begin to follow and talking to the wife, convinced that she's a completel ...

The Eye's Dream (2016)

Maya is a photographer. She takes photos related to the eyeball. Kunio is a neurosurgeon and an independent documentary film director. He is interested on making a documentary about Maya. A mysterious eyeball collector watches for Maya's own eyeballs. ...

Hana-Dama: Phantom (2016)

"Hana-Dama"—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and their rationality collapses wherever the flower is in bloom. And even today, the "Hana-Dama" continues to blossom profusely som ...

Hana-Dama (2014)

Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close. ...

Tokyo Stray Girls (2010)

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. ...

Shisei: The Tattooer (2006)

Seizou, a tattoo artist, dreams of creating lasting works of art that exist long after he passes. One day, he sees the perfect canvas: the unblemished back of a female grad student. A genius in color theory, the young woman studies and experiments with blo ...

Rampo Noir (2005)

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

Unacceptable Married Love Affair Special (2003)

Three part omnibus film on the subject of infidelity. ...

Price of a Married Woman: Perfume of Desires (2001)

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 h ...

Sabaku (2000)

This gender-swapped take on the horrific murder case of Junko Furuta shows how Jun Furuta's father tracks down the juveniles who murdered his son to find out why his son had to die and to exact his revenge. ...

The Fetist (1998)

In the district of Shinjuku, a cut-throat rōnin student crosses paths with an uninspired painter who does the utmost for his envisioned muse. ...

Soft Skin (1998)

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off w ...

Night of Body's Model (1996)

Takahashi moves into a new apartment after a divorce and as she tries to settle in, finds that she is having strange and violent dreams and weird things keep happening in her apartment. Her neighbour likes to listen to her through the wall, and becomes inc ...

In a Thicket (1996)

Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once a ...

Splatter: Naked Blood (1996)

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. ...

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland (1996)

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 ...

Hunters' Sense of Touch (1995)

A police detective investigating a vicious string of homosexual murders discovers that the latest victim appears to be the married executive who was his college lover ten years before. ...

Rafureshia (1995)

Fearing dead-end futures, abused schoolgirl Alisa and neglected housewife Harumi plan a new life together, bankrolled by a bag of stolen cash. But with an incestuous father and a jealous mother-in-law in hot pursuit, their journey to the other side of the ...

Love − Zero = Infinity (1994)

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 t ...

Wakaoku-sama: Futomono-biraki (1994)

Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first ...

Chikan to nozoki: fujin-ka byôtô (1994)

A complete change of pace for cult pinku-eiga filmmaker Hisayasu Sato, this softcore farce set in a women's clinic looks more like one of Siggi Gotz's German romps than a film from the director of OL Renzoku Rape: Kyonyu Musaboru or Kamen No Yuwaku. The za ...

Hitozuma hentai biyoshitsu (1994)

This routine effort from cult pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato centers around a divorcée who opens a beauty parlor and begins selling sexual services to boost her business. ...

Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi (1993)

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 lone ...

Angel in the Dark (1993)

Sato regular Koichi Imaizumi stars as a man obsessed with high school girls and their uniforms, viewing them as innocent and untainted. He begins an affair with one such girl (Yuri Ishihara), who is unmercifully bullied by her classmates and thus vulnerabl ...

Kaikan onanie: Niizuma-hen (1993)

Reiko is a newlywed who has been married for half a year through an arranged marriage. Married life should be fun, but for Reiko, it has been a series of empty days. She and her husband, Takahiro, are not in tune with each other. And it's not just their he ...

Kyrie Eleison (1993)

A female detective tries to live a life of surveillance and of spying on couples having affairs while her husband is in a strange coma. ...

Negation (1993)

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 ...

Dirty Blue (1992)

A standard pinku-eiga entry from prolific cult director Hisayasu Sato, this softcore melodrama centers on a successful female magazine editor with a handsome fiancé. The good-looking, successful couple seems to be the picture of happiness, until the young ...

Seifuku onanie: Shojo no shitagi (1992)

The plot deals with an alienated high-school girl who is rescued from a suicide attempt by a male student who can only achieve orgasm by pleasuring himself with women's underwear. Intrigued, the depressed young woman taunts him into raping her various fema ...

An Aria on Gazes (1992)

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 ...

Hitozuma gômon: Sandan-zeme (1992)

Although its title indicates three personalities, the heroine of cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's downbeat multiple-personality tale actually exhibits four, going from loving wife to crazed slut to insane child to depressed adolescent. As usual, Sato fills t ...

Honban: Vibe sekkan (1992)

Kasumi Yuka heads the cast of this silly softcore film from Hisayasu Sato, the usually far more sober cult filmmaker known for grim depictions of alienation and sadism. Yuka plays a cranky harridan who uses her vibrator to administer questionably effective ...

Umagoya no reijô (1991)

Yuu is living with her horse Ryusei on the edge of the sea. One day a young researcher and three artists arrive and they disturb Yuu's quasi-telepathic relation with a horse. ...

Niizuma kahanshin: Washizukami (1991)

A deranged doctor lives in an abandoned hospital together with his wheelchair-bound daughter. Frustrated by normal women's perceived imperfections, the doctor kidnaps them and subjects them to sadistic tortures to turn them into subservient women for his c ...

Turtle Vision (1991)

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

Look Into Me (1991)

A married couple enjoy engaging in S&M sexual behavior, and the wife, Yuri, asserts, "The ultimate SM play is death." After her husband dies, supposedly accidentally, Yuri is left alone, grieving and self-destructive. Her mental state deteriorates as she w ...

Just an Illusion (1991)

A high-school girl with paranormal abilities becomes the center of a bizarre cult which believes her to be a divine idol. In fact, she's a maniac, prowling the streets with a male slave to rape and murder innocent victims. ...

Silencer Made of Glass (1991)

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. ...

Seifuku nusumi-dori-ma: Gekisha naburu (1990)

A high-school girl with a hobby of documenting stuff with her video camera films a woman getting raped in a dirty alley. She get in contact with the rapist and start blackmailing him to let her film when he assaults his victims, whom he chooses because the ...

Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku (1990)

Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends. ...

OL renzoku rape: Kyonyû musaboru (1990)

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 ki ...

Interlocking Locks (1990)

A detective is hired to locate a model's rapist. ...

Uma to onna to inu (1990)

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 ...

Ki*Ra*Ra (1990)

Tired of the belligerence and bad manners of a female customer, two shop owners kidnap her and subject her to a series of sexual assaults and tortures with utensils from the shop. ...

Hanra honban: Joshidaisei bôkô-hen (1990)

The tale of an alienated young guy eager to discover a way to spend his bills. Financial relief shows up in the form of unknown e-mails directing him to rape women for money, capturing the crimes as evidence of his work. Sordid as his brand new job may be, ...

Bijin reporter: Boko nama-chukei (1989)

Another satirical broadside against the thrill-seeking public, and the media that panders to them, from filmmaker Hisayasu Sato. ...

Pervert Ward: S&M Clinic (1989)

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 ...

Bondage Ecstasy (1989)

A young office worker turns into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies. ...

Shimai renzoku reipu: Eguru! (1989)

An embittered young man who draws no physical pleasure from sex starts a club for his friends, luring young women into violent rape and torture by charming them over the Internet. Eventually the angry sister of one of the girls takes revenge. ...

Muscle (1989)

Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is rel ...

Brain Sex (1988)

A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what they see in detail, feigning shock and screams as the attackers become more violent. ...

Wakamono kari (1988)

A gay version of the "Widow's Boarding House" series, starring Shinji Kubo as the owner of the boarding house. A straight college student who also has a girlfriend then moves in... ...

Love Letter in the Sand (1988)

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 ...

Re-Wind (1988)

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

Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (1988)

Reporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club, but is startled to hear she's been implicated in the bloody death of a client with perverted taste ...

Temptation of the Mask (1987)

An orphaned arsonist is interrogated by a detective, revealing his story of sexual abuse and trauma. ...

Lustmord (1987)

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. ...

Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987)

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 ...

Subway Serial Rape: Uniform Hunting (1987)

On their way to school two sisters are raped by a gang of punks in full view of the passengers on the subway. When one sister commits suicide the other quits school and picks up a yakuza boyfriend who teaches her how to shoot. When the boyfriend is killed ...

Boko climax! (1987)

Director Hisayasu Sato helmed this peculiar tale about a woman known as Locker Baby because she was left in a bus station locker as an infant. Locker Baby is raped by a man clad in black leather, traumatizing her still further, and driving her to sensory-d ...

Gimme Shelter (1986)

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 brut ...

Uniform Virgin: The Prey (1986)

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? ...

Save the Last Dance for Me (1986)

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. ...

Za mania: Kaikan seitai jikken (1986)

A young woman is invited for a free stay at a seemly deserted seaside hotel during the off season. Too late she finds out that the manager likes to collect women for his "playing card" collection and she is next in the pack. ...

Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun (1985)

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

Wife Collector (1985)

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. ...

White Uniform Confinement (1985)

A mysterious woman, Jun, comes to the hospital. Jun's disease was called "clitoral hypertrophy," which meant that she swelled to a huge size when caressed. Shunsuke, the doctor in charge, and Akiko, the nurse, but also Kyoji and Hiromi, who were secretly s ...

Sex Virgin Unit: Party of Beasts (1985)

This film explores the lives of several disenfranchised urban residents, including a woman whose sole companionship comes from her erotic attachment to a mannequin, a man hired to rape women, and other assorted victims of urban alienation. ...

Molester's Tour Bus (1985)

A woman who works for a bus company that gives erotic service to their passengers is given a mysterious VHS tape. Silly complications ensue. ...

Subway Serial Rape (1985)

A man with a briefcase is being pursued by a small yakuza gang. After abandoning his vehicle, the man boards a train where he and the other passengers watch a woman being assaulted by three thugs. Intimidated, the commuters do nothing to help. Later, the v ...

Distorted Sense of Touch (1985)

One of legendary "pink" director Hisayasu Sato's first of over 50 examinations of love and sex among the dregs of society, this downbeat picture deals with a sleazy rapist (Taketoshi Watari) who starts a doomed romance with a sullen teenage reject. ...

Sex Document: Nakase Jôzu (1985)

The Bondage (1984)

A videotape left by a mysterious woman to a taxi driver. There is a pattern of a secret bondage show recorded there ... A noir-style story about the membership-based SM show and the secrets of the organization behind it. A unique entertainment work with a ...

Female Prisoners: Brutal Treatment (1984)

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

Molester's School Infirmary (1984)

A high school girl searches for a treasure found by her lost father in a school full of peepers and perverts. ...

Sexy Timetrip Ninjas (1984)

1615. Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke is assigned the task of finding a hidden treasure that will restore his clan to their full power. However, sexy ninja warrior Kagero stands in Sasuke's way. Complications ensue when a sudden time warp occurs and both Sasuke and ...

Chikan Densha Ano te Kono te (1984)

Wet Kimono (1983)

In the early Showa period, a young woman named Asako drifts into a certain red light district. She appears in a white dress, straw hat, and white parasol, which is out of place in this area, but what kind of past does she have, and what are her feelings as ...

Desire for No Tomorrow (1980)

This is an 8mm film that Sato made at the age of 20 with his student friends. ...

Lovers of the Silver Screen (1978)

First work of Hisayasu Sato ...

Autumn (2016)

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 ...

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (2015)

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

Cross the Lens (2006)

Making of documentary for 'Rampo Noir' ...

Tokyo Elegy (1999)

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. ...

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE (1996)

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. ...

Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi (1993)

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 lone ...

Cruising Love Story (1991)

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. ...

Zetsukin gyaru: Yaruki munmun (1985)

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

Wakazuma Misshitsu Bôkô Jiken (1985)

Pink Physical Examination (1985)

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

Female Prisoners: Brutal Treatment (1984)

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