Highest rated movie: Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2004)
Lowest rated movie: Soo (2007)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Yōichi Sai? Cinafilm has a total of 73 reviews across 2 movies directed by Yōichi Sai.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 63%.
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog is Yōichi Sai's highest rated movie, with a score of 70% based on 60 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Yōichi Sai is Soo, with a score of 57% based on 13 reviews.
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.
Yōichi Sai has directed films starring Shinobu Terajima, Ji Jin-hee, Teruyuki Kagawa and Kippei Shiina.
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