Isao Yukisada

03.08.1968, Kumamoto, Japan

 

Director
Yukisada is a Japanese director and screenwriter who supposedly decided to become a film director after seeing Shinji Sômaiji’s film Taifű kurabu (Typhoon Club, 1985). He worked as assistant director on TV films by Kamoshita Shinichi and Oyama Katsumi. Also important was his collaboration with Iwai Shunji on feature films Love Letter (1995), Swallowtail (1996) and Shigatsu monogatari (April Story, 1998). His first successful film was the drama Himawari (Sunflower, 2000), after which he made the award winning Go (2001), Kyô no dekigoto (A Day on the Planet, 2004), Sekai no chűshin de, ai o sakebu (Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World, 2004), Kita no zeronen (Year One in the North, 2005) and Haru no yuki (Spring Snow, 2005). His last film Tôku no sora ni kieta (2007) is currently in post-production.

Filmography


Films by this director

Go

(2001)

Directed by: Isao Yukisada
PHOTOGRAPHY: Katsumi Yanagishima
Synopsis:

Sugihama is a high-school kid who, besides typical teenage and love problems, has difficulties because of his origins. Namely, he is a “Zaichi”- second generation of North Koreans who live in Japan. Even though they are physically almost identical to Japanese people, these Koreans are not fully integrated into Japanese society. After Sugihama gets expelled from a North Korean school because he swore in Japanese, he is equally unlucky in a Japanese school.

color, 35 mm, 122 min
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