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Toshiki Satō
a.k.a. , , ''and'' is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his ''pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Kazuhiro Sano and Hisayasu Satō, 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, 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 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, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tōru Nakane
is a Japanese actor who was born in Tokyo, Japan on November 6, 1957. He has appeared extensively in pink films and on television. The pink film critics Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser commented in 1998 that "he is generally considered one of the best actors in the pink business." Life and career Pink film Nakane's earliest film credit in the Japanese Movie Database is the April 1982 Roman Porno film , which was part of the ''Female Teacher'' series from Nikkatsu. In the next two years, Nakane starred in three gay-themed films for ENK, a studio which almost exclusively produced homosexual oriented works. The trilogy, consisting of , and , all directed by Ryūichi Hiroki, were frank and sympathetic to their gay protagonists. In July 1984, Nakane also appeared in the pink film for the Shintōhō Eiga studio, where he was cast as a tabloid editor who plays amateur detective to catch a serial killer slasher. Later that same year, in November 1984, he played a college tutor who wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |