Dir. SATO Yoshinori (Shinjuku Tiger) Yoshinori Sato was born in Aichi, Japan on February 1975. After graduating high school, he went to the US to study filmmaking at University of Southern California. His second feature film Her Mother was screened at Busan International Film Festival and other
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