Kiyoshi Sasabe

08.01.1958, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Sasabe is a Japanese director and screenwriter. He made feature films such as Hi wa mata noboru (2002), Chirusoku no natsu (Summer of Chirusoku, 2003), Hanochi (Half a Confession, 2004) that won an award from the Japanese Academy as best Film (the main national film award in Japan), Yokkakan no kiseki (Miracle in Four Days, 2005), Kâten-kôru (Curtain Call, 2005) about a journalist who discovers an actor from a forgotten theatre; Deguchi no nai umi (Sea Without Exit, 2006), war drama about kaiten - human torpedoes, Yűnagi no machi sakura no kuni (Yunagi City, Sakura Country, 2007), a drama about the survivors of Hiroshima. His last film to date is Kekkon shiyou yo (2008).

Filmography

Films by this director

Summer of Chirusoku

(Chirusoku no natsu, 2003)

Directed by: Kiyoshi Sasabe

PHOTOGRAPHY: Masaaki Sakae

Synopsis:

The story takes place in July 1977 during a high school athletic competition between two towns, Japanese Shimonoseki and North Korean Pusan. Two teenagers, Ikuko Endo from Japan and An Daiho from North Korea, fall in love and promise to meet each other in a year at the next competition. Apart from physical distance, during that year they will have to overcome political tensions and social prejudices.

35 mm, color, 114 min

Half a Confession

(Han-ochi, 2004)

Directed by: Kiyoshi Sasabe

PHOTOGRAPHY: Mutsuo Naganuma

Synopsis:

Soichiro Kaji, a retired police officer, comes to the police station and admits to murdering his wife. After their son’s tragic death and early signs of Alzheimer’s, his wife expressed her wish to die. In spite of the husband’s confession, there are 48 unaccounted hours between the murder and arrival to the police.

35mm, color, 122 min

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