Yoichi Sai

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 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.

Director

 * 2009 Kamui
 * 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