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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yoichi Sai (born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese film director. His mother is Japanese, His father is zainichi Korean.
His 2004 film Chi to hone won four Japanese Academy Awards, including two for Sai himself, for Best Director and Best Screenplay. He had previously received two nominations in the same categories for Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru. In 1999 he shot Buta no mukui (The Pig's Retribution), a film set in the lavish natural scenery of Okinawa, inspired by the 1996 Akutagawa Prize-winning eponymous novel by Eiki Matayoshi. The film won the Don Quixote prize at Locarno International Film Festival in 1999.
He won the award for Best Screenplay at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days.
As an actor, he appeared in Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo. He is the current president of the Directors Guild of Japan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoichi Sai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Birth Name
Yang-il Choi
Born
Wednesday, 06 July 1949
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Investigation Game | Goro Nirasawa | 2007 |
Route 225 | 2006 | |
Thirteen Steps | Director Muto | 2003 |
Taboo | Commander Isami Kondo / Isami Kondo | 1999 |
The Stairway to the Distant Past | Chief of Police | 1995 |
All Under the Moon | Section Chief | 1993 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Investigation Game | Goro Nirasawa | 2007 |
Route 225 | 2006 | |
Thirteen Steps | Director Muto | 2003 |
Taboo | Commander Isami Kondo / Isami Kondo | 1999 |
The Stairway to the Distant Past | Chief of Police | 1995 |
All Under the Moon | Section Chief | 1993 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Kamui Gaiden | 2009 |
Soo: Revenge for a Twisted Fate | 2007 |
Blood and Bones | 2004 |
The Pig's Retribution | 1999 |
Inu hashiru | 1998 |
Marks | 1995 |
All Under the Moon | 1993 |
The Lady in a Black Dress | 1987 |
Let Him Rest in Peace | 1985 |
Sex Crime | 1983 |