Yoichi Sai
6 July 1949 – 27 November 2022 was a Korean film director who worked in Japan. He was the president of the Directors Guild of Japan.
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Yoichi Sai
- Name
- Yōichi Sai
- Birth Name
- Choi Yang-il
- Born
- 6 July 1949
- Birthplace
- Nagano Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- 27 November 2022
- Place of death
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Honours
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay · Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director · Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director
- Languages
- Japanese
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• Name — Yōichi Sai • Birth Name — Choi Yang-il • Born — 6 July 1949 • Birthplace — Nagano Prefecture, Japan • Died — 27 November 2022 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Occupation — Film director
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Yoichi Sai lived from 6 July 1949 to 26 November 2022 and was a film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Life and career
Sai was born on 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. His mother was Japanese and his father was Zainichi Korean. Sai won the Best Screenplay award at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for A Sign Days. In 1999, he shot 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 the Locarno International Film Festival in 1999. Sai directed Blood and Bones, a film starring Takeshi Kitano. He has also directed films such as Marks, Doing Time, Quill, Soo and Kamui Gaiden. As an actor, Sai appeared in Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo and Masahiko Nagasawa's 2003 film The Thirteen Steps. Sai's 2004 film Blood and Bones 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 All Under the Moon. Sai died of bladder cancer at his home in Tokyo, on 27 November 2022, at the age of 73.
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Yoichi Sai was born on 6 July 1949. Yoichi Sai died on 26 November 2022.
TV
TV
• Pro Hunter (1981) (ep.15, 16 and 25)
As actor
As actor
• Taboo (1999) • The Thirteen Steps (2003)
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Nagano.
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Tokyo.
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Film
• Mosquito on the 10th Floor (1983) • Sex Crime (1983) • Someone Will Be Killed (1984) • Let Him Rest in Peace (1985) • Kuroi Doresu no Onna (1987) • Hana no Asuka-gumi! (1988) • A Sign Days (1989) • Burning Dog (1991) • All Under the Moon (1993) • Marks (1995) • Heisei Musekinin Ikka: Tokyo Deluxe (1995) • Dog Race (1998) • The Pig's Retribution (1999) • Doing Time (2002) • Blood and Bones (2004) • Quill (2004) • Soo (2007) • Kamui Gaiden (2009)
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- 1.'90s Japanese film 'All Under the Moon' director Yoichi Sai dies. japantimes.co.jp. 27 novembre 2022.
- 2.De quel côté est la lune ? (1993) : titre français du film au Festival international des cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul
- 3.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (1983年). mainichi.jp.
- 4.Hōchi Film Awards. hochi.co.jp.
- 5.日刊スポーツ映画大賞. nikkansports.com.
- 6.１９９３年 第３６回 ブルーリボン賞. www.allcinema.net.
- 7.prix Kinema Junpō - (1993年). kinenote.com.
- 8.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (1993年). mainichi.jp.
- 9.Japanese Professional Movie Awards - 3th (1993年).
- 10.２００２年 第４５回 ブルーリボン賞. www.allcinema.net.
- 11.cérémonie des Japan Academy Prize - (2005年). www.japan-academy-prize.jp.
- 12.prix Kinema Junpō - (2004年). kinenote.com.
- 13.cérémonie des prix du film Mainichi - (2004年). mainichi.jp.
- 14.cérémonie des Japan Academy Prize - (1994年). www.japan-academy-prize.jp.
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