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).