Yoichi Sai

Born: 1949-07-06

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.   


Placeholder

Taboo

as Isami Kondo
Released: 1999-12-18

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young...

Movie page

The Stairway to the Distant Past

as Chief of Police
Released: 1995-03-18

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to...

Movie page

All Under the Moon

as Section Chief
Released: 1993-11-06

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers...

Movie page

In the Realm of the Senses: Recalling the Film

as Interviewee
Released: 2003-01-01

Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1976 film.

Movie page

Route 225

as uncredited
Released: 2006-03-11

Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find...

Movie page