Yōichi Sai

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Directing

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. 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.   

Filmography

• 優作について私が知っている二、三の事柄 (2022)
• CLUB DEJA-VU ONE NIGHT SHOW 松田優作・メモリアル・ライブ (2022)
• Kamui (2009)
• The Short Films: We Were All Once Children (2008)
• Soo (2007)
• Route 225 (2006)
• Blood and Bones (2004)
• Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2004)
• In the Realm of the Senses: Recalling the Film (2003)
• Doing Time (2002)
• Taboo (1999)
• The Pig's Retribution (1999)
• Dog Race (1998)
• MARKS (1995)
• The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)
• Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe (1995)
• N45゜ (1994)
• All Under the Moon (1993)
• Burning Dog (1991)
• Via Okinawa (1989)
• The Glorious Asuka Gang! (1988)
• The Lady in a Black Dress (1987)
• Love Story (1986)
• Let Him Rest in Peace (1985)
• Someday, Someone Will Be Killed (1984)
• Dansen (1983)
• Sexual Crime (1983)
• The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor (1983)
• The Night of Martial Law (1980)
• 不良少年 (1980)
• No Grave for Us (1979)
• The Killing Game (1978)
• The Most Dangerous Game (1978)
• Kitamura Tokoku: My Winter Song (1977)
• Bastard on the Border (1976)
• In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
• Kokuhatsu Zainichi kankokujin seijihan report (1975)
• Empire of Passion: On the Set