Signals - Sai Yoichi
Overview of films
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All Under the Moon
Sai Yoichi | 109' | Japan | None
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 -
Blood and Bones
Sai Yoichi | 144' | Japan | None
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… -
Contemporary Dining Table
Sai Yoichi | 21' | Japan | None
Made for the portmanteau feature ABC: The Short Films, Sai Yoichi’s film is a brilliant vignette of the stresses, strains and generational conflicts i -
Doing Time
Sai Yoichi | 93' | Japan | None
With a restrained, Ozu-like flavour, Sai adapted Hanawa Kazuichi’s autobiographical manga about three years imprisonment after collecting replica guns -
Gohatto
Oshima Nagisa | 100' | Japan | None
Korean director Sai plays the leader of a Japanese samurai militia in a film by Oshima Nagisa (whose assistant director Sai was on In the… -
Kamui
Sai Yoichi | 120' | Japan | None
Kamui has escaped rural poverty and family ties by becoming a ninja, but now wants a kind of freedom not available in feudal Japan, the… -
Let Him Rest In Peace
Sai Yoichi | 103' | Japan | None
With a gorgeous visual style and a laconic tone, male lead Fuji Tatsuya (star of In the Realm of the Senses), returns to his seaside… -
MARKS
Sai Yoichi | 139' | Japan | None
The young Mizusawa survived his family’s group suicide only to be sexually abused in a mental hospital. In a separate storyline, Tokyo faces a series -
Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
Sai Yoichi | 108' | Japan | None
In Sai’s first film, ex-rocker Uchida Yuya plays an unstable and alcoholic Tokyo cop, despised by his ex-wife and daughter. As his life moves in… -
The Pig’s Retribution
Sai Yoichi | 118' | Japan | None
Sexy, funny and sad in equal measure, Sai’s second Okinawan film shows a virginal boy travelling with three hookers to a small island to collect… -
Quill
Sai Yoichi | 100' | Japan | None
A huge hit in Japan and winner of several ‘Best Director’ prizes, this moving biopic about a guide dog for the blind avoids all false… -
Sex Crime
Sai Yoichi | 77' | Japan | None
Sai’s only contribution to Japan’s soft sex ‘roman porno’ genre, training ground for a generation of young directors, shows a short-lived but happy mé