Until very recently you wouldn’t find film director Sachi Hamano in the reference books: Japan’s mainstream film industry has historically been more than a little reluctant to allow women behind the ...

A smooth-talking septuagenarian sporting a rakish beret moves into a building housing seven little old ladies and proceeds to romance them, singly and en masse. Lilies bloom left and right, to borrow ...

When one thinks of Japanese directors, two archetypes generally come to mind: the aging legend turning out epics about Japan’s social history or post-war guilt, and the young maverick who incorporates ...

If Monika Treut represents the "cool queer look" of the 1990s, then Hamano Sachi from Japan looks like a hippie from the 1960s. Having made more than 300 porn films in the past 30 years, Hamano began ...

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Mangaka who also appeared in pink films directed by Sachi Hamano. Born 1952 in Tokyo. While working as an assistant to Kimio Yanagisawa, he made his debut in Weekly Shōnen Jump under the name Isamu ...

Sachi Hamano, a veteran of Japanese erotic films, bravely takes on the topic of senior sexuality with this 2001 farce set in a retirement complex. Half a dozen female residents of various temperaments ...