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Yōichi Sai
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.
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.
As director
優作について私が知っている二、三の事柄
CLUB DEJA-VU ONE NIGHT SHOW 松田優作・メモリアル・ライブ
Kamui
The Short Films: We Were All Once Children
Soo
Blood and Bones
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Doing Time
The Pig's Retribution
Dog Race
Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
MARKS
All Under the Moon
Burning Dog
Via Okinawa
The Glorious Asuka Gang!
The Lady in a Black Dress
Love Story
Let Him Rest in Peace
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Sexual Crime
Dansen
