Kazuhiro Sano

Kazuhiro Sano
Born 1956 (age 5960)
Occupation Film director
Screenwriter
Actor
Years active 1980 present

Kazuhiro Sano (佐野和宏 Sano Kazuhiro, born in 1956) 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 "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王 pinku shitenno).[1] Sano's films differ from those of other Pink film directors of the time in that, while not necessarily optimistic or upbeat, they are more concerned with relationships and romance than violence and sadism.[2] He has the distinction of winning the Best Director prize three consecutive years at the Pink Grand Prix. He has also been given two Best Actor awards, two Best Actor second place awards, and a Best Screenplay award at this ceremony.

Life and career

Kazuhiro Sano was born in 1956 and studied at Meiji University. It was while at university that he first became involved in film, acting in director Sogo Ishii's student film Crazy Thunder Road (1980). Toei Studios later released this film theatrically. Noticing Sano in the film, veteran pink film director Mamoru Watanabe gave him a role in his Dark Hair Velvet Soul (1982). Sano acted in films of Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu and Hisayasu Sato before he began directing. In 1989 Sano was awarded the Best Actor prize at the Pink Grand Prix, an award he won again in 1993.[3][4] Sano's directorial debut was Capturing: Dirty Foreplay (1989), which, like most of his films, he also wrote and starred in.[2] His 1990 film Young Wife: Modest Indecency was chosen as the second Best Film of the year at the 1990 Pink Grand Prix and Sano was given the award for Best Director.[5] In 1991 he won the Best Director and Screenplay awards.[6] In 1992 Sano's Molester: Peeping on Masturbation was awarded Best Film, and Sano was given the Best Director award for the third consecutive year.[7]

Partial filmography (as director)

Release title[8] Sano's title Release date Studio
Capturing: Dirty Foreplay
監禁 ワイセツな前戯
Kankin: Waisetsuna Zengi
Last Bullet 1989-11-11 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Wife's Masturbation: Sweet Tingle
人妻ONANIE 甘い痺れ
Hitozuma Onanie: Amai Shibire
Destroy the Evil March 1990 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Young Wife: Modest Indecency
若妻 しとやかな卑猥
Wakazuma Shitoyakana Hiwai
Jealousy October 1990 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Perverted Sex Play: "Tease Me Dirty!"
変態性戯 みだらに苛めて!
Hentai Seigi: Midarani Ijimete
Yokohama's Long Good-bye 1991-02-02 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Ripe Sex Play: Tingle
爛熟性戯うずく
Kanjuku Seigi: Uzuku
Run! Keep Running! 1991-06-29 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Promiscuous Wife in Heat
発情不倫妻
Hatsujo Furinzuma
Tokyo Dada: No More Nevermore 1991-08-31 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Group Molesters: Peeping on the Housewife
集団痴漢 人妻覗き
Shudan Chikan: Hitozuma Nozoki
You Can Hold Her for as Long as Waves Roll in the Ocean... Bullshit! 1991-11-23 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Molester: Indecent Peeping
痴漢わいせつ覗き
Chikan Waisetsu Nozoki
Under the Carp Banner 1992-04-04 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Molester: Peeping on Masturbation
痴漢ONANIE覗き
Chikan Onanie Nozoki
Woman Who Clings 1992-07-11 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Pervert: Telephone Masturbation
変態テレフォンONANIE
Hentai: Telephone Onanie
Don't Let It Bring You Down 1992-07-11 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Adultery, Mother & Daughter
不倫・母・娘
Furin, Haha, Musume
Japanese Tragi-Comedy 1993-05-28 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Secret Spot: Horny Massage
性感極秘マッサージ 全身愛撫
Seikan Gokuhi Massage: Zenshin Aibu
Taste of Pumpkin 1993-10-01 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Mad Affair: Promiscuous Wife
狂乱不倫妻 熱いうめき
Kyoran Furin-zuma: Atsui Umeki
Sea Roar: or We Can't Walk Backwards 1994-09-30 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Bliss of Young Sex: Good Afternoon, Clitoris
青春の悶絶 こんにちはクリスチャン
Seishun no Monzetsu: Konnichiwa Cli-chan
Break on Through 1995-07-28 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga
Entrails of a Ripe Woman: Scarlet Crevice
熟女のはらわた 真紅の裂け目
Jukujo no Harawata: Shinku no Sakeme
1997-09-26 Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga

Notes

  1. Domenig, Roland (2002). "Vital flesh: the mysterious world of Pink Eiga". Archived from the original on 2004-11-18. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
  2. 1 2 Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). "Spotlight: Four Kings of Pink (Kazuhiro Sano)". Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 457. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  3. "Best Ten of 1989, 2nd Ceremony 1989年度ベストテン <第2回ピンク大賞>" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. "Best Ten of 1993, 6th Ceremony 1993年度ベストテン <第6回ピンク大賞>" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  5. "Best Ten of 1990, 3rd Ceremony 1990年度ベストテン <第3回ピンク大賞>" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  6. "Best Ten of 1991, 4th Ceremony 1991年度ベストテン <第4回ピンク大賞>" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. "Best Ten of 1992, 5th Ceremony 1992年度ベストテン <第5回ピンク大賞>" (in Japanese). P*G Website. Retrieved 2010-04-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  8. Filmography from Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). "Spotlight: Four Kings of Pink (Kazuhiro Sano)". Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 457–462. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.; * Kazuhiro Sano at the Internet Movie Database and Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). "Spotlight: Four Kings of Pink (Kazuhiro Sano)". Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. pp. 457–462. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.

Sources

Awards and achievements
Pink Grand Prix
Preceded by
Masahiro Kasai
Pink Grand Prix for Best Director
Kazuhiro Sano

1990
Succeeded by
Kazuhiro Sano
Preceded by
Kazuhiro Sano
Pink Grand Prix for Best Director
Kazuhiro Sano

1991
Succeeded by
Kazuhiro Sano
Preceded by
Kazuhiro Sano
Pink Grand Prix for Best Director
Kazuhiro Sano

1992
Succeeded by
Toshiki Satō
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