Hisayasu Satō, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hisayasu Satō

Japanese film direcotr

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1959

Place of Birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Hisayasu Sato, sometimes misread as Toshiyasu Sato, (?? ??, Sato Hisayasu, born 15 August 1959 in Shizuoka City, Japan) is a Japanese exploitation film director.
He has worked prolifically in the pinku eiga genre.
His best known works are the pink film The Bedroom (1992), and the V-Cinema splatter film Splatter: Naked Blood (1996).
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 often likened to Canadian director David Cronenberg due to his unflinching eye for Body Horror.
Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Sato and Takahisa Zeze, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (??????, pinku shitenno).