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person_profile-Yoichi Sai

Yoichi Sai Died at age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Yoichi Sai

Date of Birth:

Jul 06, 1949

Country of birth:

Japan

Died:

Nov 27, 2022

Biography of

Yoichi Sai

    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.   

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Yoichi Sai

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Filmography of

Yoichi Sai

Found 4 Movies in total

... 2006

Taboo

Isami Kondo ( Actor )

... 1999

The Stairway to the Distant Past

Chief of Police ( Actor )

... 1995

All Under the Moon

Section Chief ( Actor )

Writer

... 1993