extra=born in 1956 is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki SatÅ and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the pinku shitenno.
Life and career
Kazuhiro Sano was born in 1956 and studied at
Meiji University. It was while at university that he first became involved in film, acting in director
Sogo Ishii's student film
Crazy Thunder Road (1980).
Toei Company later released this film theatrically. Noticing Sano in the film, veteran
pink film director
Mamoru Watanabe gave him a role in his
Dark Hair Velvet Soul (1982). Sano acted in films of
Kazuo Komizu and
Hisayasu Sato before he began directing. In 1989 Sano was awarded the Best Actor prize at the Pink Grand Prix, an award he won again in 1993.
Sano's directorial debut was
Capturing: Dirty Foreplay (1989), which, like most of his films, he also wrote and starred in.
His 1990 film
Young Wife: Modest Indecency was chosen as the second Best Film of the year at the 1990 Pink Grand Prix and Sano was given the award for Best Director.
In 1991 he won the Best Director and Screenplay awards.
In 1992 Sano's
Molester: Peeping on Masturbation was awarded Best Film, and Sano was given the Best Director award for the third consecutive year.
Sources
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