Toshiki Satō

Toshiki Satō was born in 1961 and graduated from Nikkatsu Arts School.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/kedamono-240351|title=Kedamono|accessdate=2007-10-06|last=Firsching|first=Robert|publisher=Allmovie}} After graduation, Satō was scheduled to make his directorial debut in 1986 with the pink film studio, Million Film, but this project was canceled when the studio ceased production that year.{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|page= 291|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}} Satō worked as an AV (Adult Video) director for a few years, and made two films for Nikkatsu's post-Roman Porno subsidiary, Nikkatsu Video, in 1988. His debut film was the unsuccessful 1989 pink film drama, The Beast. AV idol 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,{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/245154|title=Kageki Honban Sho: Ijosha-tachi No Yoru|accessdate=2007-10-06|last=Firsching|first=Robert|publisher=Allmovie}} and his typical subject matter includes "pornographers, panty-sniffers, lesbians, and lusty murderers".{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/245168|title=Abnormal Ecstasy|accessdate=2007-10-06|last=Firsching|first=Robert|publisher=Allmovie}} His films often end with the protagonist committing suicide in spectacular style.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/245152|title=Gushonure: Zanshin Aibu|accessdate=2007-10-06|last=Firsching|first=Robert|publisher=Allmovie}} The director's stylistic concerns began to show themselves in his second film, E-Cup Action Take Two: Rich and Ripe (1989). Allmovie calls Latest Bathhouse Sex Technique: Palace of the Soapsud Princess (1990) an oddly moving film, and one of Satō's most erotic.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/245153|title=Saishin Soap Technique: Awahime Goten|accessdate=2007-10-06|last=Firsching|first=Robert|publisher=Allmovie}}

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.Weisser, p.481. That's Hentatainment! Perverted Sex Document (1991) 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/245167|title=That's Hentaitainment! Ijo Sex Daizenshu|accessdate=2007-10-06|last=Firsching|first=Robert|publisher=Allmovie}} Satō followed this tale of transsexualism with Abnormal Ecstasy, another, more psychological treatment of the same subject the same year.

In 1995 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/245151|title=Atashi Wa Juice|accessdate=2007-10-06|last=Firsching|first=Robert|publisher=Allmovie}}

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• {{cite web|first=Toshiki|last=Satō|url=http://www.dgj.or.jp/essay/article/000152.html|title=第2回 『セルフプロデュース』: サトウ トシキ 「私のセルフ・プロデュース」 "Self-Production #2: Toshiki Satō, "My Self-Productions"|accessdate=2010-02-23|publisher=Director's Guild of Japan|language=Japanese|archive-date=2016-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805081037/http://www.dgj.or.jp/essay/article/000152.html|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|chapter = Desperate Housewives: Toshiki Satō |pages= 272–279 |year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}
• {{cite web |url=http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:225228|title=Toshiki Sato|accessdate=2007-10-06|publisher=Allmovie}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/person372228.htm|title=Toshiki Sato|accessdate=2007-10-16|publisher=The Complete Index to World Film}}
• {{IMDb name|id=0766281|name=Toshiki Sato}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0126830.htm|title=サトウトシキ (Satō Toshiki)|language=Japanese|accessdate=2007-10-06|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}}
• {{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=480–486|chapter=Spotlight: Four Kings of Pink (Toshiki Sato)}}

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