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Hiroko Sato (佐藤寛子) (born February 17, 1985) is a Japanese actress, singer and retired gravure idol. She was born in Fukushima but grew up in the Kanagawa prefecture and attended the Kanagawa Prefectural Senior High School, I Shida. She was a student council president at her high school and is generally seen as an intelligent young woman of modern disposition who is both articulate and holds informed opinions on a range of subjects.

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Name: Hiroko Sato (佐藤寛子)
Date of birth: February 17, 1985 (1985-02-17) (age 24)
Place of birth: Fukushima, Japan
Height: 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Measurements: 88-58-88

Hobbies and Interests
She has a sound sports and fitness background, both in playing volleyball and swimming and regularly works at her physical fitness with a gruelling regime of situps, something she has occasionally admitted to having overdone but she has also developed a good technique in the japanese martial art of sword-fighting kendo which has been useful for her in action roles in television and movies.

With her personal hobbies and interests she has studied traditional japanese calligraphy to 6 stages as well as enjoying painting as an artistic medium but she also writes poetry and is a budding novelist, something that is useful in the revue and analysis she writes for NHK Radio on a regular basis. On a more casual basis she enjoys music, movies and good food, much of which she cooks herself with just a little help from recipe books by Naomi Takayama. She is known to like a little wine with her food on an occasional basis and has confessed to liking an occasional draught beer.

She is an avid reader with a taste for heavyweight japanese women authors of the calibre of Hiromi Kawakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Eimi Yamada, Fuyumi Ono and other similar authors who address diverse matters like unpopular social issues, human sexuality, inter-racial marriages and the issues facing young people in modern Japan.

She is comfortable with animals and this is shown in the logo of her old OOKAMI blog with a cat named Sri Sri. The blog contain numerous photos of the cat as the centre of attention which shows her affinity with and affection towards animals.

Biography
In 2002 Hiroko Sato made her acting debut in the low budget horror movie "Scare" and began a very successful career as a gravure idol. A substantial amount of her work was published in japanese mens magazines like Sabra (magazine), Wannibooks, Up to Boy and Weekly Playboy by Shuestra as well as other media forms like BOMB.TV, image.tv and Young Sunday Web among others. Starting with the DVD "First Touch" in late 2002 she also starred in a reasonable number of Idol movies in DVD format up until 2008 when she retired from gravure swimsuit modelling.

As an actress, Hiroko Sato has worked in a wide range of television productions in Japan, various roles in stage productions and a variety of movies genres including horror films. She is well known for her performance in Madan Senki Ryukendo as Kaori Nose.

In 2005 Hiroko Sato released a single called "Can't Hide" which was a normal music CD with an accompanying DVD which contained a short movie called "Hiroko Television". This short movie was produced in the form of a skit where Hiroko Sato played every role at a fictitious television station from the weather girl to the newsreader and interviewer as well as performing the "Can't Hide" song on video. While evaluation of music is fundamentally subjective, Hiroko Sato has a fine clear young voice that demonstrated her vocal skills and the single was generally well received and had good contemporary reviews. The "Hiroko Television" skit on the DVD was a skillfully performed piece of humour done in a very light hearted manner. The fidelity of the CD appears to be better again than the audio from the DVD movie.

She has also participated in a compilation single with Sayaka Isoyama and Aki Hoshino.

In 2007 Hiroko Sato made a departure from her earlier photographic work in the production of a photobook called PORTRAIT that was photographed in the Fukashima prefecture area where she was born. Instead of glossy and often badly retouched images for the mens magazine market, PORTRAIT was a highly personalised work shot without makeup and very naturalistic in its presentation. It is also the first work where Hiroko Sato posed for "art nudes" in the european tradition.

Her comments from her 2007 blog indicate the personal nature of shooting PORTRAIT in the prefecture of her birth. "I have seen my soul (inner self) / I felt the power of the land in the body / but my mind and body, was a valuable experience". PORTRAIT was shot by the famous japanese photographer Yoshihisa Marutani and published by Wanibooks Japan.

Her most recent idol movie produced in 2008 is "I Hold Nothing" shot at the Port Douglas tourist resort in northern Queensland Australia.

After a successful career spanning 6 years Hiroko Sato announced her retirement from swimsuit gravure modelling in her personal OOKAMI blog in 2008. The only concession to an established swimsuit gravure audience is a yearly calender that she has modelled for over the last couple of years. She is now concentrating on her acting career in movies, television and theatre while continuing to work for the "Talking With Matsuo Hall" radio program broadcast by NHK Japan. She publishes a weekly blog named "Hiroko's Diary" for NHK dealing with the subject material in the previous weeks radio broadcast.

Her career is managed by the FITONE agency in Tokyo which also publishes her schedule and recent works. She has recently finished a movie called "Asuka pairs of flowers NEO". In 2009 she has also done a non-swimsuit gravure feature for the Shuestra publication Weekly Playboy.

The following URLs are in Japanese.

Works

Television
Madan Senki Ryukendo: Kaori Nose
Kamen Rider Decade: Ai Yashiro, Toko Yashiro

DVDs
[2002.11.15] First Touch
[2002.12.10] Peek A Boo!
[2003.04.19] Pure Smile
[2003.08.29] Lily White
[2003.11.20] Himitsu
[2004.03.10] H2O
[2004.06.02] Lover's Eyes
[2004.07.28] Gekkan Sato Hiroko
[2004.12.17] Sato Hiroko Premium
[2005.01.25] Shouwa Nostalgia
[2005.03.25] Truth
[2005.04.25] Real B Face
[2005.08.27] Move in Diosa
[2005.10.05] Tooru Maboroshi Kagami
[2006.05.17] Hiroko to Panda to Shanghai de

Photobooks
[2002.12.xx] Peek A Boo!
[2003.03.xx] Suimitsutou
[2003.08.xx] Fine
[2003.10.04] Koibumi - Chiisana Koi no Monogatari
[2003.11.20] Himitsu
[2004.03.10] H2O
[2004.05.xx] Sato Hiroko Young Sunday Special Graphic Vol. 5
[2004.05.28] Hiroko Mix
[2004.07.xx] Gekkan Sato Hiroko Shincho Mook
[2004.07.16] WPB-Net Remix DVD Sato Hiroko Anniversary
[2004.10.xx] Jounetsu
[2005.05.26] Diosa

Singles
[2005.05.25] Can't Hide

Compilations
[2005.11.30] Girl's Box ~Best Hits Compilation Winter~
[2005.12.07] Very Merry X'mas (with Isoyama Sayaka and Hoshino Aki)