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Yoichi Sai Born July 6, 1949
Nagano Prefecture, JapanOccupation Film director Korean name Hangul 최양일 Hanja 崔洋一 Revised Romanization Choe Yang-il McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Yang'il Japanese name: Sai Yōichi (崔洋一) Yoichi Sai (born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese film director. His mother is Japanese and his father is Zainichi Korean（Korean Japanese）.
Sai's 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.
Sai won the award for Best Screenplay at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days.[1]
As an actor, he appeared in Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo. He is the current president of the Directors Guild of Japan.
Contents
Filmography
Director
- 2009 Kamui
- 2007 Soo aka Double Casting
- 2004 Chi to hone aka Blood and Bones
- 2004 Quill
- 2002 Doing Time aka Keimusho no naka
- 1999 Buta no mukui
- 1998 Inu hashiru aka Dog Race
- 1995 Mâkusu no yama aka Marks
- 1995 Heisei musekinin-ikka: Tokyo de luxe
- 1993 Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru aka All Under the Moon
- 1989 A Sign Days
- 1988 Hana no Asuka-gumi!
- 1987 Kuroi doresu no onna
- 1985 Tomo yo shizukani nemure
- 1984 Itsuka darekaga korosareru
- 1983 Seiteki hanzai
- 1983 Jukkai no mosquito
References
- ^ "第１１回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８９年日本映画個人賞" (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/11-1989/11_1989_shou.html. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
External links
- (English) Yoichi Sai at the Internet Movie Database
- Yoichi Sai at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
Films directed by Yoichi Sai Hana no Asuka-gumi! (1988) · A Sign Days (1989) · All Under the Moon (1993) · Doing Time (2002) · Quill (2004) · Blood and Bones (2004) · Soo (2007)
Awards Hochi Film Award for Best Director Yoshimitsu Morita (1985) · Kichitaro Negishi (1986) · Kazuo Hara (1987) · Hayao Miyazaki (1988) · Toshio Masuda (1989) · Jun Ichikawa (1990) · Takeshi Kitano (1991) · Yōichi Higashi (1992) · Yoichi Sai (1993) · Tatsumi Kumashiro (1994) · Shunji Iwai (1995) · Yoshimitsu Morita (1996) · Masato Harada (1997) · Takeshi Kitano (1998) · Yuji Nakae (2000) · Hayao Miyazaki (2001) · Yoji Yamada (2002) · Hideo Onchi (2003) · Yoichi Sai (2004) · Kenji Uchida (2005) · Kichitaro Negishi (2006) · Nobuhiro Yamashita (2007) · Ryōsuke Hashiguchi (2008) · Miwa Nishikawa (2009)
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) · Yoshitaro Nomura (1979) · Shōhei Imamura (1980) · Seijun Suzuki (1981) · Kōhei Oguri (1982) · Kinji Fukasaku (1983) · Hideo Gosha (1984) · Juzo Itami (1985) · Shinichirō Sawai (1986) · Kinji Fukasaku (1987) · Juzo Itami (1988) · Junya Sato (1989) · Shōhei Imamura (1990) · Masahiro Shinoda (1991) · Kihachi Okamoto (1992) · Masayuki Suo (1993) · Yoji Yamada (1994) · Kinji Fukasaku (1995) · Kaneto Shindō (1996) · Masayuki Suo (1997) · Shōhei Imamura (1998) · Hideyuki Hirayama (1999) · Yasuo Furuhata (2000) · Junji Sakamoto (2001) · Isao Yukisada (2002) · Yoji Yamada (2003) · Yoshimitsu Morita (2004) · Yoichi Sai (2005) · Takashi Yamazaki (2006) · Lee Sang-il (2007) · Joji Matsuoka (2008) · Yōjirō Takita (2009) · Daisaku Kimura (2010)
Yokohama Film Festival Best Director Kazuhiko Hasegawa / Chūsei Sone (1980) · Seijun Suzuki (1981) · Kichitaro Negishi (1982) · Banmei Takahashi (1983) · Yoshimitsu Morita (1984) · Toshiharu Ikeda (1985) · Shinji Sōmai (1986) · Hiroyuki Nasu (1987) · Shunichi Kajima / Kazuo Hara (1988) · Shusuke Kaneko / Shunichi Nagasaki (1989) · Takeshi Kitano (1990) · Shun Nakahara (1991) · Takeshi Kitano (1992) · Masayuki Suo (1993) · Yoichi Sai (1994) · Junji Sakamoto (1995) · Shūsuke Kaneko / Shunji Iwai (1996) · Masayuki Suo (1997) · Rokuro Mochizuki (1998) · Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Itsumichi Isomura (1999) · Yoshimitsu Morita (2000) · Junji Sakamoto (2001) · Isao Yukisada (2002) · Ryōsuke Hashiguchi / Hideyuki Hirayama (2003) · Ryūichi Hiroki (2004) · Tetsuya Nakashima (2005) · Kazuyuki Izutsu (2006) · Miwa Nishikawa (2007) · Masayuki Suo (2008) · Yōjirō Takita (2009) · Akira Ogata (2010)
Categories:- Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year winners
- Japanese film directors
- Japanese people of Korean descent
- People from Nagano Prefecture
- Zainichi Korean people
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Japanese film biography stubs
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