CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 18.04. To 09.05.2005.

Program of Japanese contemporary films

Yoichi Sai

06.07.1949, Nagano

 

Director

Sai is a director and screenwriter who first started to work in the film industry as a lighting technician’s assistant. He made his debut with the film Tsuki wa dotchi ni deteiru (All under the moon, 1993), and also made Jukkaino mosquito (1983), Itsuka darekaga korosareru (1984), A Sign Days (1989), Mâkusu no yama (Marks, 1995), Buta no mukui (1999), Keimusho no naka (Doing Time, 2002), Quill (2004) and Chi to hone (Blood and Bones, 2004).

Filmography


Films by this director

All Under the Moon

(Tsuki wa dotchi ni deteiru, 1993)

Directed by: Yoichi Sai
PHOTOGRAPHY: Junichi Fujisawa
Synopsis:

Taxi driver Kang Chung Nam (Goro Kishitani), originally from North Korea, now lives in Japan. He works in Niigata for his former school friend Kim Seil (Shigemitsu Ogi). His colleagues are a completely lost former boxer who hates all Koreans (except Chung Nam) and an Iranian immigrant who work in Japan illegally. However, Chung Nam is more interested in women than his job. In his mother’s restaurant, he meets a Philippine waitress, Connie (Ruby Moreno), who only causes him trouble.

color, 109 minuta
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