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South Korean film director (1949–2022)
Yōichi Sai (崔 洋一 , Sai Yōichi , 6 July 1949 – 27 November 2022) was a Korean film director who worked in Japan.
[3]
[4] He was the president of the
Directors Guild of Japan .
[5]
Life and career
Sai was born on 6 July 1949 in
Nagano Prefecture , Japan. His mother was Japanese and his father was
Zainichi Korean .
[6]
Sai won the Best Screenplay award at the 11th
Yokohama Film Festival for
A Sign Days .
[7]
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.[
citation needed ]
Sai directed
Blood and Bones , a film starring
Takeshi Kitano .
[8] He has also directed films such as Marks ,
[9]
Doing Time ,
[10]
Quill ,
[11]
Soo
[12] and
Kamui Gaiden .
[13]
As an actor, Sai appeared in
Nagisa Oshima 's 1999 film
Taboo
[14] and
Masahiko Nagasawa 's 2003 film The Thirteen Steps .
[15]
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 .[
citation needed ]
Sai died of bladder cancer at his home in Tokyo, on 27 November 2022, at the age of 73.
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Filmography
As director
Film
TV
As actor
Taboo (1999)
The Thirteen Steps (2003)
References
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"OBITUARY of Sai Yoichi" . 35th Tokyo International Film Festival. 22 November 2023.
^ Shimbun, Yomiuri (28 November 2022).
"Film director Yoichi Sai dies of cancer at 73" . The Japane News.
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"[추모] 최양일 감독: 폭력으로 세상에 맞서다" (in Korean). 씨네 21. 8 December 2022.
^ Hartzheim, Bryan (1 June 2010).
"Midnigth Eye interview: Yoichi Sai" . Midnight Eye.
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"An Interview with Sai Yōichi, President of the Directors Guild of Japan" . Directors Guild of Japan. Spring 2007. Archived from
the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2013 .
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b
" '90s Japanese film "All Under the Moon" director Yoichi Sai dies" . Kyodo News . 27 November 2022. Retrieved 27 November 2022 .
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第11回ヨコハマ映画祭 1989年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese).
Yokohama Film Festival . Retrieved 10 April 2010 .
^ Hoover, Travis Mackenzie (October 2007).
"Blood and Bones - Directed by Yoichi Sai - DVD Reviews - exclaim.ca" .
Exclaim! .
^ Eisner, Ken (19 November 1995).
"Marks - Variety" . Variety .
^ Mack, Andrew (22 November 2006).
"DVD Review: Sai Yoichi's 'Doing Time' R1 Disc - Twitch" .
Twitch Film . Archived from
the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2013 .
^ Lindsay, Cam (June 2005).
"Quill - Directed by Yoichi Sai - Film Reviews - exclaim.ca" . Exclaim! .
^ Elley, Derek (4 October 2007).
"Soo - Variety" . Variety .
^ Scilling, Mark (18 September 2009).
" 'Kamui Gaiden' - The Japan Times" .
The Japan Times .
^ Smith, Neil (23 July 2001).
"BBC - Films - review - Gohatto (Taboo)" .
BBC .
^ Klein, Andy (2 February 2003).
"The Thirteen Steps" . Variety .
External links
International National Academics Artists Other