SATO, Shimako

佐藤嗣麻子, b. 1964 (Mizusawa, Iwate)

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• attended the Asagaya College of Art and Design
• studied filmmaking at the London Film School (1987)
• made a series of low budget horror films in the 1990s
• her debut feature film Warlock: Tale of a Vampire (1992) starred Julian Sands
• her 1995 film Wizard of Darkness won the Minami Toshiko Award at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (1995)
• her biggest successes has been as a TV scriptwriter and director in the 2000s and 2010s. Most notably on the hit TV series Unfair (アンフェア) about a hard-boiled female police detective (Ryoko Shinohara). The series was also adapted into a series of movies.

Secondary Sources:

• Bracken, Mike. "The Horror Geek Speaks: From Japan With Love Part 10." IGN. 13 Jan 2004.
• Billington, Alex. "Fantastic Fest Review: Shimako Sato's K-20: Legend of the Mask." First Showing. 4 Oct. 2009.
• Hardstaff, Matthew. "REVIEW: K-20 - The Fiend with Twenty Faces." Toronto Jfilm Powwow. 9 Oct. 2009.
• Martinovic, Paul. "K-20: The Legend Of The Black Mask Blu-ray Review." Den of Geek. 1 Feb. 2011.
• Mudge, James. "Unfair: The Answer (2011) Movie Review." Beyond Hollywood. 20 Sept. 2012.
• Schilling, Mark. "Dueling with a rare Japanese superhero." The Japan Times. 25 Dec. 2008.
• Schilling, Mark. "Fiendish Fun: Meeting Sato Shimako." Far East Film. c. 2008. Accessed:15 Sept 2015.
• Schilling, Mark. "‘Space Battleship Yamato’: A valiant new voyage for Japan's battlestar galactic." The Japan Times. 26 Nov. 2010.