In 2002, Sato made her acting debut in the low budget horror movie Scare and began a career as a gravure idol.
Much of her work was published in Japanese men's magazines such as Sabra and Weekly Playboy.
In 2008, Sato announced on her blog that she was no longer doing gravure modelling and would instead focus on drama and acting.
Sato's most popular movie role to date was in the acclaimed 2010 drama, ヌードの夜/愛は惜しみなく奪う, known in English as A Night in Nude -Salvation.
On April 9, 2018, she announced on her Instagram page that she had changed her stage name to Memeco Sakata.