Yoichi Sai
出生 : 1949-07-06, Nagano, Japan
死亡 : 2022-11-27
略歴
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. He is the current president of the Directors Guild of Japan.
Screenplay
鉄の意志を持ち、見事な剣の腕前を持つ忍者カムイは、おきてにがんじがらめにされた忍びの世界に閉口してそこから抜け出す。かつての仲間、大頭やミクモはそんな彼を裏切り者とみなし、執拗にその後を追う。ある日、漁師の半兵衛を助けたことでカムイはその家族に歓迎される。
Director
鉄の意志を持ち、見事な剣の腕前を持つ忍者カムイは、おきてにがんじがらめにされた忍びの世界に閉口してそこから抜け出す。かつての仲間、大頭やミクモはそんな彼を裏切り者とみなし、執拗にその後を追う。ある日、漁師の半兵衛を助けたことでカムイはその家族に歓迎される。
Writer
Tae-soo tries to steal from a gang. The gang catches Tae-Soo's brother, Tae-Jin, instead. The incident causes the brothers to separate. Tae-Soo becomes a mob fixer and an assassin. Tae-Jin becomes a police detective. When a call brings the brothers together, they get ready for brotherly bonding, but Tae-Jin gets killed. Tae-Soo decides to get revenge on his brother's killer.
Director
Tae-soo tries to steal from a gang. The gang catches Tae-Soo's brother, Tae-Jin, instead. The incident causes the brothers to separate. Tae-Soo becomes a mob fixer and an assassin. Tae-Jin becomes a police detective. When a call brings the brothers together, they get ready for brotherly bonding, but Tae-Jin gets killed. Tae-Soo decides to get revenge on his brother's killer.
Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents are missing from home and are only contactable when using one particular phonecard.
Director
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Director
生ませの親・レンのたっての願いで、盲導犬になる為に訓練士・多和田に預けられることになった一匹のラブラドール・レトリーヴァーの子犬。おなかに鳥が羽を広げたようなブチがあることから、パピーウォーカー・仁井夫妻によって“クイール”と名付けられたその子犬は、1年間、夫妻のもとで愛情一杯に育てられた後、いよいよ盲導犬訓練センターで本格的な訓練を受けることになる。のんびり屋でマイペースなクイールに、ヴェテランの多和田でさえ手を焼くこともあったが、やがてクイールは立派な盲導犬へと成長し、視覚障害者の渡辺と巡り会う。初めこそ息の合わなかった渡辺とクイール。だが、ハーネスを介して伝わってくるクイールの思いやりに、渡辺は次第に心を開くようになり、互いにかけがえのない存在になっていく。しかし、クイールとの生活が2年を過ぎた頃、渡辺は重度の糖尿病に冒され、3年後、この世を去ってしまう。そしてそれから8年後、仁井夫妻のもとで余生を送っていたクイールもまた、12年と25日の生涯を静かに閉じるのだった。
Interviewee
Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1976 film.
Writer
ハナワカズイチは銃砲刀剣類等不法所持、火薬類取締法違反で懲役3年の刑を受ける。晩秋の日高刑務所で受刑者番号222番を与えられ、刑務所生活が始まった。ハナワはそれぞれひとクセもふたクセもある4人の受刑者たちと同房。ハナワを含めた彼ら5人は次第に奇妙な連帯感で結ばれていく。ハナワにとって刑務所内での暮らしは予想に反して平穏で居心地の良いものだった。厳しく、一見風変わりな規律はたくさんあるが、暴力などは一切なく、テレビも見れて雑誌も読める。刑務所の中では、そんな穏やかな毎日が日々繰り返されていた。
Director
ハナワカズイチは銃砲刀剣類等不法所持、火薬類取締法違反で懲役3年の刑を受ける。晩秋の日高刑務所で受刑者番号222番を与えられ、刑務所生活が始まった。ハナワはそれぞれひとクセもふたクセもある4人の受刑者たちと同房。ハナワを含めた彼ら5人は次第に奇妙な連帯感で結ばれていく。ハナワにとって刑務所内での暮らしは予想に反して平穏で居心地の良いものだった。厳しく、一見風変わりな規律はたくさんあるが、暴力などは一切なく、テレビも見れて雑誌も読める。刑務所の中では、そんな穏やかな毎日が日々繰り返されていた。
Isami Kondo
1865年京都。新選組は新たに隊士を募集し多くの志願者が集まる中、一際異彩を放つ美少年がいた。加納惣三郎と名乗るその青年は剣豪・沖田総司をも手こずらせる程の剣の腕の持ち主だった。そして、もう一人、加納と双璧をなす程の剣の腕の持ち主・田代彪蔵の二人が入隊を許可された。しかし、この二人の入隊によって新選組内部の空気は少しずつ変わっていくことになる。田代は衆道（男色）の気を持つ男であり、惣三郎を衆道に引きずり込もうとしていた。そんな中、惣三郎に密かに想いを寄せていた隊士・湯沢藤次郎が何者かによって惨殺される。土方は湯沢の恋敵であった人間が斬ったのではないかと疑い始める。
Screenplay
A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.
Director
A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.
Writer
Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules. He busts a drug ring, but not before sampling a few of the wares, and he closes down an underaged prostitution ring after enjoying the company of a school girl hooker. One of duties is to shake down sniveling Korean gangster Hideyoshi (Ren Osugi) for information. In spite of their positions on opposite sides of the law, the two discover that they share a fair amount in common. A disregard for the law and the love of a comely prostitute from China named Momo-chan (Makoto Togashi). Though Hideyoshi is running an illegal alien smuggling ring with her and has lusted for her from a far for quite a while, Nakayama manages to bed her first. When she does finally appear in Hideyoshi's bed, she's unfortunately a corpse.
Director
Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules. He busts a drug ring, but not before sampling a few of the wares, and he closes down an underaged prostitution ring after enjoying the company of a school girl hooker. One of duties is to shake down sniveling Korean gangster Hideyoshi (Ren Osugi) for information. In spite of their positions on opposite sides of the law, the two discover that they share a fair amount in common. A disregard for the law and the love of a comely prostitute from China named Momo-chan (Makoto Togashi). Though Hideyoshi is running an illegal alien smuggling ring with her and has lusted for her from a far for quite a while, Nakayama manages to bed her first. When she does finally appear in Hideyoshi's bed, she's unfortunately a corpse.
Director
目黒区の住宅街の路上で頭部に独特な“突き傷”がある元暴力団員の死体が見つかる事件が発生し、警視庁捜査一課の合田警部補は被害者の身辺を調査し始める。その一方、ある法務省刑事局の職員が同じような“突き傷”のある遺体となって見つかる。合田は警察内部のしがらみに苦労しながらも、元暴力団員と法務省職員の両方に、ある弁護士が関係していたことを知る。やがて捜査線上に水沢という謎の青年の存在が浮上してくる。
Screenplay
目黒区の住宅街の路上で頭部に独特な“突き傷”がある元暴力団員の死体が見つかる事件が発生し、警視庁捜査一課の合田警部補は被害者の身辺を調査し始める。その一方、ある法務省刑事局の職員が同じような“突き傷”のある遺体となって見つかる。合田は警察内部のしがらみに苦労しながらも、元暴力団員と法務省職員の両方に、ある弁護士が関係していたことを知る。やがて捜査線上に水沢という謎の青年の存在が浮上してくる。
Chief of Police
Broke, his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Screenplay
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
Director
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
Bearded man
Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru
Section Chief
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
Director
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
Writer
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
Chief
A series of short segments focusing on the relationship of a Zanichi Korean taxi driver and Filipina woman in Japan.
Screenplay
A series of short segments focusing on the relationship of a Zanichi Korean taxi driver and Filipina woman in Japan.
Director
A series of short segments focusing on the relationship of a Zanichi Korean taxi driver and Filipina woman in Japan.
Director
The ambition of a man and a woman who try to steal 20 million dollars in an American military vault
Director
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhausting displays of energy, Sai presents a whirlwind romance between a local rocker and the daughter of a mixed American-Okinawan marriage.
Screenplay
In the year 199X, on the dark, shady streets of New Kabuki Town, the free-for-all between gangs of young delinquents and a corrupt police force is further complicated by the appearance of a mysterious girl named Asuka.
Director
In the year 199X, on the dark, shady streets of New Kabuki Town, the free-for-all between gangs of young delinquents and a corrupt police force is further complicated by the appearance of a mysterious girl named Asuka.
Director
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a shoji. Tamura who lives on the second floor of the store for the time being the son who wants to work here. A few days later, Tamura finds a handgun from Yuko's baggage and holds a suspicion ....
Director
旧友の坂口が下山建設の社長に襲いかかって逮捕されたことを知り、新藤は沖縄の小さな港町に帰ってきた。下山建設は町の再開発を担当しており、坂口が経営するホテルを買収しようと嫌がらせや脅迫を続けていたのだ。新藤はそのホテル〈フリーイン〉に泊まり、事件を探り始めた。下山建設の高畠開発部長や、下山と癒着している徳田刑事などに会い、新藤は事件の真相を知った。坂口は、誘拐された一人息子の竜太を助けようとして、下山建設に乗り込んだのだった。そして新藤は、坂口が癌に冒され、余命数ヶ月であることを知る。
Director
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...
Director
Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.
Director
Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An executive with a large industrial corporation finds his job and his future is on the line when his firm is beset by labor troubles at the same time severe financial mismanagement has been discovered. As the executive looks for a way out of his situation, he becomes involved in a ménage à trois relationship with two fellow employees, a woman and another man. As real life becomes all the more unpleasant, the businessman and his lovers become deeply attached to one another as he explores sides of his sexual nature he's never been able to investigate in the past.
Director
A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
Writer
A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
Assistant Director
殺し屋、鳴海昌平が東京に帰って来た。五年前、頭山会会長を仕止めた時、目撃者の秘書、美沙子を殺すに忍びず、ほとぼりがさめるまで外国に逃亡していた。鳴海が銀座で舎弟の文太とホステスのツケの取り立てをやっていると、五年前の目撃者、美沙子に会った。彼女は今では一流クラブのママで、暴力団、勝田組組長の愛人でもあった。
Assistant Director
財界の大物たちが誘拐される事件が相次ぐ中、東日電気の社長である南条が誘拐された。東日電気会長の小日向は、殺し屋である鳴海昌平に五千万円で南条の救出を依頼。鳴海は南条が監禁されている精神病院に潜入し、激しい銃撃戦の末に南条を助け出した。が、南条はすぐに狙撃され死亡してしまう。小日向は南条に、足立という男の殺害を要請する。しかし足立は警視庁特捜部に身を守られていた。
Assistant Director
昭和11年。料亭の女中定は店の主人に心惹かれ、情事を重ねるようになる。その情事が男の妻に知れてしまい、二人は駆け落ちを決行する。快楽におぼれる日々を重ねるうちに定は男を永遠に手放したくないと思うようになり、ついには男を自分だけのものにするため首を絞めて殺害し、さらには男の陰部を切り取ってしまうのだった。
