Kazuhiro Sano

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name = Kazuhiro Sano
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occupation = Film director and screenwriter and actor
yearsactive = 1980 – present
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nihongo|Kazuhiro Sano|佐野和宏|"Sano Kazuhiro"|extra=born in 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 Sato and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the nihongo|"Four Heavenly Kings of Pink"|ピンク四天王|pinku shitenno. [cite web |url=http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|title=Vital flesh: the mysterious world of Pink Eiga|accessdate=2007-10-05|last=Domenig|first=Roland|year=2002|language=English|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20041118094603/http://194.21.179.166/cecudine/fe_2002/eng/PinkEiga2002.htm|archivedate=2004-11-18] Sano's films differ from those of other "Pink film" directors of the time in that, while not necessarily optimistic or upbeat, they are more concerned with relationships and romance than violence and sadism.cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|coauthors=Yuko Mihara Weisser|title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|pages=457|chapter=Spotlight: Four Kings of Pink (Kazuhiro Sano)]

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 Studios 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 "Gaira" Komizu and Hisayasu Sato before he began directing. Sano's directorial debut was "Capturing: Dirty Foreplay" (1989), which, like most of his films, he also wrote and starred in.

Partial filmography (as director)

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