Yōichi Sai
Directing
- Born
- July 6, 1949 · Nagano, Japan
- Died
- November 27, 2022 (age 73)
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.
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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.
Known for
In the Realm of the Senses
September 15, 1976
Blood and Bones
November 6, 2004
Kamui
September 19, 2009
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
March 13, 2004
Soo
March 22, 2007
The Most Dangerous Game
April 7, 1978
Doing Time
May 14, 2002
The Killing Game
December 2, 1978
No Grave for Us
May 26, 1979
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
July 2, 1983
All Under the Moon
November 6, 1993
The Pig's Retribution
July 9, 1999
Behind the camera32
- 2022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
- 2009Kamui Director, Screenplay
- 2008The Short Films: We Were All Once Children Director
- 2007Soo Director, Writer
- 2004Blood and Bones Director, Screenplay
- 2004Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog Director
- 2002Doing Time Director, Writer
- 1999The Pig's Retribution Director, Screenplay
- 1998Dog Race