Kazuhiro Sano
Acting
Biography
Kazuhiro Sano (born 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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Kazuhiro Sano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Known For
Noisy Requiem
In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Completely alienated from the outside world, they commit sexual perversions, violence and cannibalism.
Pig-Chicken Suicide
Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife, and surrealism to tell the story of two Koreans living in Japan whose love is destroyed due to overwhelming racial discrimination. In explicit abattoir photos and much symbolism, Matsui tells about the struggles of ethnic Koreans in Japan. A butcher's love affair and his relationship with the animals he kills frame the story.
Woman's Body Heat: Don't Forget Me
A stranger, a man and a woman, meet at a certain place. Despite the fact that they have never met before, they both begin to become aware of the other. Various erotic images of the woman flash through the man's mind.... And the woman lets the man free his mind....
Shing Shing Shing
High school student Tomoyuki (Hoshi Ishida), his father (Kazuhiro Sano), and Yuki (Miwako Wagatsuma), a girl that Tomyuki likes, gather together as a family and performs road shows out of their truck. A sense of loss, farewells, and relations are all brought out.
Niizuma kahanshin: Washizukami
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 childlike daughter to play with.
Rusty Empty Can
Matsui's debut film, "Rusty Empty Can" (1979), was photographed by Sogo Ishii; nonetheless the film turned out to be a serious and emotionally painful one unlike Ishii's speedy roller-coaster movies. The film which depicts a homosexual relationship was successful at the many film festival held in Japan, including selection at the 1979 Pia Film Festival. "Rusty Empty Can" is still shown at theatres today as it has become the pioneer of cult movies with devoted fans and approval from Nagisa Oshima and Shuji Terayama.
Raigyo
A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club.
Girl Hell 1999
Seventeen-year-old Misaki endures a life marred by tragedy and abuse. Abandoned by her mother and forced to care for her bedridden sister, her home life becomes a battlefield of psychological terror, dominated by a father whose actions cross into the realm of the unthinkable. At school, Misaki finds no solace as her closest friend succumbs to the allure of degradation for material gain. The culmination of her suffering arrives through a series of brutal assaults, each encounter dragging her further into a vortex of despair, with only a mentally ill homeless woman offering a semblance of maternal comfort.
Uma to onna to inu
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 pursuits such as capturing young women at the beach to force them to engage in sexual activities, including copulation with a horse and a dog.
Tokyo Babylon 1999
Subaru is investigating the death of of a enemy, Kaneyama but before he died, he undertook a project, which was how to teach seven teenage girls how to use black magic to get revenge on people they don't like, but when one of the girls feels remorse, she is told by the other girls to continue with the black magic. Subaru tries to stop them but the girls think that he is their enemy and put a curse on him.
Filmography
as Nagano
as Tomoyuki's father
as Yasuda
as Masakuni Tsukamoto
as Kosuke Sakamaki
as Maggie
as Tanaka
as Yoshida Toru
as Tetsuji Takechi
as Suguru Kajikawa
as Masayoshi Umeda
as Father
as Sakuma
as Tatsutoshi
as Shinjuku theater owner
as Hasegawa
as Detective Ando
as Ezaki, an art teacher
as Movie director with sunglasses
as Kanayama Tomokichi
as Kazuya Sawano
as Kenji Inada
as Katsumi Takai
as Police
as Masato, Emiko's husband
as Homeless man
as Masamitsu Aoki
as Ikuro Takizawa
as Sasaki
as Takashi
as Shinji Maei
as Tachibana
as Akira Migita
as Takeshi Kito
as Kagawa
as Yasukazu Mizumura
as Leader of the Magical Pirates Tour
as Cross
as Mika's brother-in-law
as Makoto
as Shûichi Tsutsui
as Yuki, the detective
as Tooru Takamori
as Kohei
as Tatsumi Yamamoto
as Azuma
as Shûichi Maei
as Tomohiko