Famous People with Name Sato

Naoto Sato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Naoto Sato: a Japanese amateur astronomer and planetarian (a member of the professional staff of a planetarium).He supports ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station), which is a program that offers students an opportunity to experience the excitement of amateur radio by talking directly with crewmembers of the ISS (International Space Station).Since 1995, he and his friend Takeshi Urata have discovered a large number of asteroids in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, including: 1995DJ2, Kamikochi, Azumino, Jonen, Iruma, and Sado. He has discovered so many asteroids that he is ranked in the top 50 most asteroid discoverers in the world (“The Astronomy Yearbook – 2008). The asteroid 6025 SATO-NAOTO, which Takeshi Urata discovered on December 30, 1992, was named after him.

Toshiyasu Sato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshiyasu Sato: a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the pinku eiga genre. His best known works are the pink film The Bedroom (1992), and the V-Cinema splatter film Splatter: Naked Blood (1996). He is known for his "sledgehammer" filmmaking style, and using his exploitation career to tackle serious subjects like obsession, alienation, perversion and voyeurism.[1] He is often likened to being a Japanese David Cronenberg due to his unflinching eye for Body Horror. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Sato and Takahisa Zeze, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (??????, pinku shitenno?).[2]

Junya Sato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Junya Sato: a Japanese film director.

Makoto Sato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makoto Sato: was a Japanese documentary film maker. Among his best-known films were "Living On The River Agano" and "Self and Other."His final film, "Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said" (2005), was named Best Documentary at the 2007 Mainichi Film Awards.

Toshiki Sato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshiki Sato: 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 Sato, he is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (??????, pinku shitenno?).[1]Toshiki Sato was born in 1961 and graduated from Nikkatsu Arts School.[2] After graduation, Sato worked as an AV (Adult Video) director for a few years before making his film debut in 1989. His debut film was the unsuccessful 1989 pink film drama, The Beast.[2] AV idol Maya Asabuki starred in this film judged "light on drama, but heavy on sex scenes."[3]