[KineJapan] Sai Yoichi

[Gerow Aaron]

The film director Sai Yoichi (Choe Yang-il) died on November 27 of cancer. With a Korean father, he went to Korean schools in Japan and came to be the representative zainichi film director, presenting the issue of Koreans in Japan from both a humorous (All Under the Moon) and serious (Blood and Bones) angle. Sai started out on the lighting crew on film sets before becoming an assistant director, even serving as AD for Oshima Nagisa on In the Realm of the Senses (he later appeared as an actor in Oshima's Gohatto). He directed for TV before making his theatrical directorial debut with Jukkai no mosquito in 1983. He made several films for Kadokawa and Daiei before All Under the Moon, which won most of the awards in 1993. I showed that film in my class a couple of weeks ago and it is as fresh as it used to be. One thing to note is that he was also concerned with other minorities in Japan, and even made several films set in Okinawa, including Buta no mukui, which I have written about. Sai, who also served as president of the Director's Guild of Japan, is certainly a central figure in Japanese cinema from the 1980s on. 

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Aaron Gerow
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