Signals - Sai Yoichi
Overview of films
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Kamui
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 freedom to
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The Pig’s Retribution
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 hi
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Gohatto
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 Realm of
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Soo
Sai’s first Korean movie is a hard-boiled revenge thriller, full of visual flair, about a loner known as ‘Soo’, who is wanted both by cops and gang
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All Under the Moon
Sai’s breakthrough film builds a tragi-comic fresco of Asian-immigrant experience in Tokyo: the rip-offs and pitfalls, the subtle Japanese racism,
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Via Okinawa
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exha
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Doing Time
With a restrained, Ozu-like flavour, Sai adapted Hanawa Kazuichi’s autobiographical manga about three years imprisonment after collecting replica g
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Blood and Bones
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
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Sex Crime
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
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Quill
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 sentiment. Ad
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Let Him Rest In Peace
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 roots to confr
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MARKS
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 seri