Yoichi Sai
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1949-07-06 (73 years old)
Deathday
2022-11-27
Place of Birth
Nagano, Japan
Also known As
Choi Yang-il
Yang-il Choi
Yôichi Sai
Yohichi Sai
Yōichi Sai
崔 洋一
Yoichi Sai
Biography
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...
Acting
1999
as Isami Kondo
1994
as Bearded man
1995
as Chief of Police
2006
1993
as Section Chief
2003
as Interviewee
Production
2004
as Director
2009
as Director
2009
as Screenplay
2004
as Director
2007
as Director
1983
as Director
1983
as Writer
2002
as Director
1993
as Director
1993
as Writer
1991
as Director
1999
as Director
1985
as Director
2002
as Writer
1980
as Assistant Director
1995
as Director
1995
as Screenplay
1995
as Screenplay
1995
as Director
1984
as Director
1988
as Director
1988
as Screenplay
1980
as Assistant Director
2008
1986
as Director
2022
as Director
1989
as Director
1987
as Director
1998
as Director
1998
as Writer
1983
as Director
1983
as Director
1976
as Assistant Director
2022
as Director
1978
as Assistant Director
1999
as Screenplay
1978
as Assistant Director
2007
as Writer
1976
as Producer
1977
as Assistant Director
1979
as Assistant Director
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