Shirô Yumeno

A necrophiliac (Kazuhiro Sano) lives in a secluded house with a female amnesiac and a woman who murdered her sister. Sato centers his attention on the psycho-sexual deterioration of his protagonists. The film is quite unsettling with two graphic bestiality scenes involving a dog and a horse. (imdb)

A perverted social outcast lures young sailor-suited virgins to the back of his truck where he torments and murders them before disposing of their corpses in an acid bath. (Midnight Eye)

Seizou, a tattoo artist, dreams of creating lasting works of art that exist long after he passes. One day, he sees the perfect canvas: the unblemished back of a female grad student.

Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.

Reporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club, but is startled to hear she's been implicated in the bloody death of a client with perverted tastes. (Amazon)

When a jobless drifter, whose days consist of randomly following strangers, is paid by a doctor to track his wife, he has no idea what he's letting himself in for. As he spends more time chasing after the doctor's wife he starts to uncover a disturbing motive to her movements. Under special medication that leaves her with a serious skin irritation, and unable to enjoy normal sex, she may have transformed into a modern day vampire.

Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato achieved a bizarre sort of success with his 1990 film Uma To Onna To Inu, leading him to return to the same tainted well with this warped look at a woman who lives in the middle of nowhere with a horse for a lover. The horse is also her best friend, and they communicate through telepathy as well as engage in intimate acts too unnatural to describe here. Unfortunately for all concerned, some photographers and models show up to upset the idyllic romance. (All Movie Guide)

Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, becomes involved with a man named Kitami. Their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. (imdb)

A harrowing S&M roughie from erratic cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato, this gay-themed pinku-eiga entry deals with an abused man who literally turns into an insect. Naturally, Sato borrows heavily from Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and several of his other works, but the overall effect is far more Sadean than Kafkaesque.

This twisted softcore film from cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato deals with a fatal lesbian attraction between a university lab technician and her new assistant. The tech is obsessed with motherhood, so she hires a man to rape and impregnate her young girlfriend. She must then eliminate the hated male when he comes to collect his reward. (Robert Firsching)

A teenage couple drive around improvising radio shows, following night stalkers and rapists or peeping on various sexual escapades, describing what they see in detail, feigning shock and screams as the attackers become more violent. (imdb)

Kiyomi Ito stars as a woman who gets her intellectual kicks attempting to solve difficult criminal cases, and begins to investigate a videotape which shows the results of a brutal murder committed by using the knife-equipped camera itself. (ADC)

A medical researcher working with a blind, mute quadriplegic patient begins to experiment with hypnotherapy as a means to fix his seemingly non-physical ailments. Unfortunately, results are almost impossible to measure on the crippled subject, so she begins monitoring other, healthy text subjects... and even tries hypnosis on herself! What she's unlocking in the human brain may forever change medical science forever, but will she be remain sane enough - or even alive! - to present her findings? (ADC)

Japanese cult director Hisayasu Sato made this slow-moving pinku-eiga story for Shintoho, one of two for the studio that year among his four 1989 releases. This is a standard tale of an abusive psychologist (Kazuhiro Sano) whose S&M sexplay becomes too much for his wife (Kiyomi Ito). She leaves him, but happiness arrives in the form of her masochistic twin sister (Ito again), who is perfectly content to be Sano's whipping-girl.

Following cosmetic surgery to enhance her breasts, an office worker is raped. The rapist's son, after setting his distinctly Oedipal gaze on his father's busty victim, locates her and they begin an ill-fated sadomasochistic affair that leads to a bloody killing spree.

This bizarre pinku-eiga combines modern technology and parapsychology against a backdrop of rapes-for-hire and sadistic softcore sex.The center of the story is an alienated young man desperate to find a way to pay his bills. Financial relief arrives in the form of anonymous e-mails directing him to rape women for money. Sordid as his new job may be, the aspiring rapist seems to have solved his financial woes, until a young psychic uses her extrasensory powers to solve the case.

A hospital nurse treating a patient for amnesia discovers that he is the serial killer who has been roaming the city armed with a metal baseball bat. (Robert Firsching)

Kazuhiro Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. When he grows up, the traumatized boy becomes an arsonist, only to find some fleeting taste of love with the male detective investigating him. (AllMovie)

A journalist. Two photographers. One infamous serial killer on the loose. DARKROOM FANTASIES is directed by Academy Award Winning Director Yojiro Takita.

The story follows a female artist who attends a meditation center that advertises a relaxation session in a large tank filled with water. She is drugged by the clinic's doctor who rapes her in the tank and film's the act. (imdb.com)

The true story of a pair of college students who attempted a double suicide to end their doomed romance becomes fare for legendary pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato in this feature. Fatalistic and sad, this is one of the more depressing Japanese softcore films, and Sato makes it even worse by including footage from the lovers’ actual 8 mm experimental film throughout the story

Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy.