Kiyoshi Sasabe
Kiyoshi Sasabe (佐々部清) (January 8, 1958 – March 31, 2020) was a Japanese film director.
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- Name
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Born
- 8 January 1958
- Birthplace
- Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Died
- 31 March 2020
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Meiji University · Japan Institute of the Moving Image
- Honours
- Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kiyoshi Sasabe (佐々部清) (January 8, 1958 – March 31, 2020) was a Japanese film director.
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Kiyoshi Sasabe (1958–2020) was a film director and screenwriter, of Japanese nationality. The film director was born and died in Shimonoseki. Kiyoshi Sasabe was educated at Japan Institute of the Moving Image and Meiji University.
Languages used include Japanese. Honours include Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award.
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• Name — Kiyoshi Sasabe • Born — 8 January 1958 • Birthplace — Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan • Died — 31 March 2020 • Occupation — Film director
Career
Career
Born in Shimonoseki, Sasabe graduated from Meiji University before attending the Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakuin (now the Japan Academy of Moving Images). He worked as an assistant director to Yōichi Sai, Seiji Izumi, and Yasuo Furuhata before debuting as a director in 2002 with Hi wa mata noboru. He received the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for Chirusoku no natsu in 2003. His Half a Confession won the best picture award at the 28th Japan Academy Prize. He also directed TV movies.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Hi wa mata noboru (2002) • Chirusoku no natsu (2003) • Half a Confession (2004) • Deguchi no nai umi (2006) • Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (2007) • Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (2011) • Tokyo Refugees (2014) • Kono Michi (TBA)
第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 斎藤工 高梨臨 佐々部清 (種まく旅人～夢のつぎ木～)
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · Saito Takumi, Takanashi Rin Sasabe Kiyoshi from "The Sowing Traveller 3" at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2016
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Kiyoshi Sasabe born at Shimonoseki.
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Kiyoshi Sasabe died at Shimonoseki.
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