Yoichi Sai

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Yoichi Sai (崔洋一 Japanese: Sai Yōichi, Korean: Choi Yang-il (Hangul: 최양일, Hanja: 崔洋一, Revised Romanization: Choe Yang-il, McCune-Reischauer: Ch'oe Yang-il), born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is an ethnic-Korean Japanese film director.

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. As an actor, he appeared in Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo.

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2007 Soo aka Double Casting
2004 Chi to hone aka Blood and Bones
2004 Quill
2002 Doing Time aka Keimusho no naka
1999 Buta no mukui
1998 Inu hashiru aka Dog Race
1995 Mâkusu no yama aka Marks
1995 Heisei musekinin-ikka: Tokyo de luxe
1993 Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru aka All Under the Moon
1989 A Sign Days
1987 Kuroi doresu no onna
1985 Tomo yo shizukani nemure
1984 Itsuka darekaga korosareru
1983 Seiteki hanzai
1983 Jukkai no mosquito

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