Shimako Sato

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Shimako Sato (born 1964) is a Japanese film and videogame director and screenwriter.

Filmography

• Tale of a Vampire (1992)
• Eko eko azaraku (1995) (a.k.a. Wizard of Darkness)
• Eko eko azaraku II (1996)
• K-20: Kaijin niju menso den (2008)

...plus lots of other works for TV and videogames.

Notes

She made Eko Eko Azaraku because she wanted to do a movie about magic, and she made the girl in it call herself a wizard instead of a witch because of the saying in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series about women not being able to be wizards.

The lesbian sex (statutory rape) scene in Eko Eko Azarak was added at the insistence of the producers (according to the interview on the DVD of the prequel).

External Links

• IMDB listing
• Wikipedia entry -- Japanese

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