Director
Yōichi Sai
July 6, 1949 · Nagano, Japan
Yōichi Sai (born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) was 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.
Often works with
Yozaburo Ito
4 titles together
Doing Time, MARKS, The Lady in a Black Dress
Kenichi Endo
4 titles together
Doing Time, All Under the Moon, MARKS
Akihiro Shimizu
4 titles together
Via Okinawa, The Lady in a Black Dress, Let Him Rest in Peace
Takeshi Kitano
3 titles together
Taboo, Blood and Bones, The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Tomorowo Taguchi
3 titles together
Taboo, Doing Time, N45゜
Kei Satō
3 titles together
Taboo, The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor, Let Him Rest in Peace
Full filmography · 26
優作について私が知っている二、三の事柄
Director
2022CLUB DEJA-VU ONE NIGHT SHOW 松田優作・メモリアル・ライブ
Director
2022
Kamui
Director
20096.1
The Short Films: We Were All Once Children
Director
2008
Soo
Director and Writer
20076.5
Route 225
cast
2006
Blood and Bones
Director
20046.6
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Director
20047
Doing Time
Director and Writer
2002
Taboo
as Isami Kondo
19996.6
The Pig's Retribution
Director
1999
MARKS
Director
1995