Yōichi Sai
Yōichi 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 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.
Acting
Movie
Taboo
as Isami Kondo
1999
Movie
The Stairway to the Distant Past
as Chief of Police
1995
Movie
All Under the Moon
as Section Chief
1993
Movie
Route 225
2006
Movie
N45゜
as Bearded man
1994
Movie
In the Realm of the Senses: Recalling the Film
as Self - Interviewee
2003
Movie
Empire of Passion: On the Set
as Self (Assistant Director for "Empire of Passion")
Crew
Movie
In the Realm of the Senses
Assistant Director
1976
Movie
Blood and Bones
Director
2004
Movie
Kamui
Director
2009
Movie
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Director
2004
Movie
Soo
Director
2007
Movie
Doing Time
Director
2002
Movie
The Most Dangerous Game
Assistant Director
1978
Movie
The Killing Game
Assistant Director
1978
Movie
No Grave for Us
Assistant Director
1979
Movie
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Writer
1983
Movie
All Under the Moon
Director
1993
Movie
The Pig's Retribution
Director
1999