Toshiki Satō

• Name — Toshiki Satō • Born — 6 May 1961 • Birthplace — Fukushima Prefecture, Japan • Occupation — Film director and screenwriter • Years Active — 1989 – present • Spouse — Ayaka Konno (married 2022) 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 "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink".

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". 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 his typical subject matter includes "pornographers, panty-sniffers, lesbians, and lusty murderers". His films often end with the protagonist committing suicide in spectacular style. 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. 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. 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. 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.

• Release title — Satō's title — Release date — Studio • Beast 獣 けだもの Kedamono — Woman of Dreams — 1989-03-04 — Burst Brain/Shintōhō Eiga • E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe Eカップ本番 II 豊熱 E-Cup Honban II: Hojuku — Landscape with a Key — 1989-04-29 — Burst Brain/Shintōhō Eiga • Mizue Tashiro's The Genuine Orgasm 田代水絵 ザ・本番アクメ おいしい水の作り方 Tashiro Mizue The Honban Acme — How to Make Good Tasting Water — 1989-08-12 — Burst Brain/Shintōhō Eiga • Soaking Wet: Touching All Over the Body ぐしょ濡れ全身愛撫 BODY TOUCH Gushonorue: Zenshin Aibu — Forbidden Zone — February 1990 — Burst Brain/Shintōhō Eiga • Latest Bathhouse Sex Technique: Palace of the Soapsud Princess 最新ソープテクニック2 泡姫御殿 Saishin Soap Technique: Awahime Goten — Yoshiwara District — August 1990 — Media Top/Shintōhō Eiga • Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts 過激本番ショー 異常者たちの夜 Kageki Honban Sho: Ijosha-tachi no Yoru — Night of the Perverts — December 1990 — Outcast Produce/Shintōhō Eiga • That's Hentatainment! Perverted Sex Document ザッツ変態テインメント 異常SEX大全集 That's Hentatainment! Ijo Sex Daizenshi — Hobby — 1991-04-27 — Outcast Produce/Shintōhō Eiga • Abnormal Ecstasy アブノーマル・エクスタシー — Late Blooming — 1991-11-02 — Outcast Produce/Shintōhō Eiga • Special Live Show: Sex Video 特別（生）企画 ザ・投稿ビデオ Tokubetsu Nama Kikaku: Toko Video — The Home Sex Video — 1992-06-06 — Outcast Produce/Shintōhō Eiga • Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting 不倫妻の性 快楽あさり Furin-zuma no Sei: Kairaku-asari — Simple Story — 1992-08-29 — Outcast Produce/Shintōhō Eiga • Molester's Commuter Train: Office Lady's Sexuality 痴漢通勤電車 OLたちの性 Chikan Tsukin Densha: OL-tachi no Sei — Sex * Conversation * Commuter Train — 1993-04-02 — Outcast Produce/Shintōhō Eiga • Petting Lesbians: Sensitive Zone ペッティング・レズ 性感帯 Petting Lez: Seikan-tai — Naomi — 1993-10-01 — Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga • Molester's Train Housewife: Madam is a Pervert 痴漢電車人妻篇 奥様は痴女 Chikan Densha Hitozuma-hen: Okusama wa Chijo — In Tandem — 1994-04-01 — Outcast/Shintōhō Eiga • Lots of Peeping: Hot Underpanties of a Lover 覗きがいっぱい 愛人の生下着 Nozoki ga Ippai: Aijin no Nama-shitagi — "Tomorrow Joe" is Alive — 1994-07-01 — Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga • Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration! 悶絶本番 ぶちこむ！！ Monzetsu Honban: Buchikomu! — Like a Rolling Stone — 1995-02-10 — Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga • Fighting Dragon Story 闘龍伝 Toryu-den — 1995-02-10 — SHS Project • Fighting Dragon Story 2 闘龍伝2 Toryu-den 2 — June 1995 — SHS Project • Lunatic — 1996-06-01 — Excellent Film • Kawarasaki Family 河原崎家の一族 Kawarasaki-ke no Ichizoku — 1996-06-07 — Pink Pineapple • Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet Furin nikki: nureta mama mō ichidō — 1996-07-05 — Kokuei /Shintōhō Eiga • I Am Juice アタシはジュース Atashi wa juice — 1996-07-13 — Fujii/Tohokushinsha Film • Apartment Wife: Moans from Next Door 団地妻 隣りのあえぎ Danchi-zuma: tonari no aegi — 2000-06-01 — Kokuei /Shintōhō Eiga • Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete — 2002-08-24 • Cuffs / Lost Virgin ロスト・ヴァージン やみつき援助交際 Tejyo — 2002-09-27 — Kokuei/Shintōhō Eiga