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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Sai Yoichi

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Sai Yoichi at IFFR

  • 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