[1][2] She attended Kinjo Gakuin University junior college, but eventually dropped out.
She attended the Haiyuza Theatre Company[3] (with Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Tetsuo Ishidate, Orie Sato, Katsutoshi Shin, Mieko Yuki, Junko Maya, among others).
[5][1] Thereafter she joined the theater company Sankikai, and signed a contract with Shochiku.
[8] Sato has appeared in many movies and television series, and is well known for her beauty and voice.
She also ended up writing an article in a weekly magazine where she wrote that she was an "actress who had the Asahi Shimbun of Japan correct her."