Yōichi Sai

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Yōichi 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 Lo…

  • Directing
  • Born 6 July 1949
  • Died 27 November 2022 (age 73)
  • Nagano, Japan
  • 38 credits

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Most-watched Yōichi Sai films currently: In the Realm of the Senses (1976), The Night of Martial Law (1980), Taboo (1999), Blood and Bones (2004), Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2004).

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