Years active 2001 – | Name Yoshikazu Kato | |
Born 1972 (age 43–44) Kyoto, Japan Occupation Film director
Screenwriter | ||
Yoshikazu Kato discusses the economic ties between China and Japan
Yoshikazu Katō (加藤義一, Katō Yoshikazu) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
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Life and career
Yoshikazu Katō was born in Kyoto in 1972, and became a fan of the pink film while still in junior high school. He graduated from the Nikkatsu Visual Arts Academy in 1993, and began working in the film industry in 1995. He worked as assistant director on nearly 100 pink films beginning with Hisayasu Satō's Hunters' Sense of Touch (狩人たちの触覚, Karyudo-tachi no shokkaku) (1995), for the gay-themed ENK studio. His directorial debut was at Ōkura Pictures (OP Eiga) with Aijin hisho: bijiri mitsumamire (牝監房 汚された人妻), filmed in 2001 and released in 2002. Also at OP Eiga he filmed Molester's Train: Sensitive Fingers (2007) which was given the Best Film award at the Pink Grand Prix and which won Katō the award for Best Director. At the Kansai region Pinky Ribbon Awards the film was also given the top award, the Gold Prize.
Ninja films
Katō directed the V-Cinema ninja-sexploitation series Legend of the Voluptuous Kunoichi (妖艶くノ一伝, Yōen Kunoichi Den) in 2006 and 2007. The films featured AV idols as Kunoichi protagonists and were later released in the United States by Switchblade Pictures.