IFFR 2010

Made for the portmanteau feature ABC: The Short Films, Sai Yoichi’s film is a brilliant vignette of the stresses, strains and generational conflicts in present-day family life. Screened before Doing Time.

Made for the portmanteau feature ABC: The Short Films, Sai Yoichi’s film is a brilliant vignette of the stresses, strains and generational conflicts in present-day family life. Screened before Doing Time.

Contemporary Dining Table

Daikon

Signals - Sai Yoichi

In this epic fresco, Sai explores social history through one man, a Korean emigrant to 1920s Japan (played by Kitano Takeshi), who works his way up to head a small criminal empire. Sai’s brilliant recreation of a vanished community raises difficult questions about Korean-Japanese identity.

Blood and Bones

Doing Time

Sai’s breakthrough film builds a tragi-comic fresco of Asian-immigrant experience in Tokyo: the rip-offs and pitfalls, the subtle Japanese racism, the constant threat of deportation. In the first really ‘down’n dirty’ film about Japan’s working-class immigrants, Sai explores the dark side of Japanese politesse.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Contemporary Dining Table

Signals - Sai Yoichi

All Under the Moon

Blood and Bones

Contemporary Dining Table