Sai Yoichi
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Sai Yoichi at IFFR
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Kaze wa dotchi ni fuite iru?
Nakashima Takehiko | 35' | Japan | International premiere
The curious adventures of a life-insurance salesman in City 45.N. -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Soo
Sai Yoichi | 123' | South Korea | None
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… -
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 -
Via Okinawa
Sai Yoichi | 111' | Japan | None
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhaust -
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 -
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… -
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