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Lee Sang-il is a Director and Scriptwriter Japonais born on 6 january 1974 at Niigata Prefecture (Japon)
Lee Sang-il (Korean: 이상일, born 6 January 1974 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan) is a Zainichi Korean film director and screenwriter. His first film Chong was a short film about the lives of third generation Koreans living in Japan.
Lee won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards for Hula Girls. His upcoming film Unforgiven has been selected to be screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Lee Sang-il
Lee won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards for Hula Girls. His upcoming film Unforgiven has been selected to be screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Filmography of Lee Sang-il (7 films)
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Rage (2016)
Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ken Watanabe, Mirai Moriyama, Kenichi Matsuyama, Go Ayano, Suzu Hirose, Pierre Taki
Rating69%
Unforgiven (2013)
, 2h15Directed by Lee Sang-il
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Ken Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Koichi Sato, Yūya Yagira, Shiori Kutsuna, Eiko Koike
Rating69%
Shortly after the start of the Meiji period, a former samurai under the Edo Shogunate, Jubei Kamata, flees from government forces on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Jubei kills his pursuers and disappears, but remains infamous as “Jubei the Killer”.
Villain (2010)
Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Eri Fukatsu, Akira Emoto, Masaki Okada, Kirin Kiki, Hikari Mitsushima
Rating69%
Abandoned by his mother at an early age, Yuichi Shimizu (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a young man who lives with and takes care of his grandparents in a decaying fishing village near Nagasaki. He works as a blue-collar day-labourer and leads a lonely life: his only real interest is his car.
Hula Girls (2006)
, 2hDirected by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yu Aoi, Ittoku Kishibe, Sumiko Fuji, Eri Tokunaga
Rating69%
Pour tenter de trouver un substitut économique face à la prochaine fermeture de la mine, un maire a la curieuse idée d’ouvrir un Centre de Danses Hawaïennes dans un village aux hivers rigoureux, au nord du japon en 1965. Il engage une professeur de danse, ancienne étoile à Tokyo, pour enseigner les rudiments du déhanchement à une population locale très réticente. Le film retrace l’histoire vrai et incroyable de cette folle aventure.
Scrap Heaven (2005)
, 1h57Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ryō Kase, Joe Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama, Akira Emoto, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Ken Mitsuishi
Rating67%
A pharmacist, police officer, and a toilet cleaner are riding a bus on a fateful night. The trio share a bizarre and tragic, life-altering experience when the bus becomes hijacked by a terrorist. The terrorist forces the three into a violent game of Rock, Paper, Scissors and Russian roulette, which toilet cleaner Testsu loses. The terrorist then shoots Tetsu, causing the bus to make a sudden stop. After noticing that pharmacist Saki has only one eye, the terrorist suddenly feels remorse and finally turns the weapon on himself. The tragic bus ride leaves police officer Shingo feeling humiliated and ashamed of himself, for not handling the bus hijacking.
69 (2004)
Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama
Actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masanobu Ando, Asami Mizukawa, Yoko Mitsuya, Ittoku Kishibe, Gen Hoshino
Rating66%
Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, 1969: Inspired by the iconoclastic examples of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken (Tsumabuki Satoshi) decide to shake up "the establishment," i.e., their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and company focus their energies on mounting a multimedia "happening" to combine music, film and theater. Complications ensue.
Border Line (2003)
, 1h58Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Tetsu Sawaki, Yumi Aso, Ken Mitsuishi, Jun Murakami, Kanako Fukaura, Yoshiyuki Morishita
Rating68%
The film opens with Matsuda being uncooperative at school. We learn via a radio broadcast that he then murders his father and runs away on his bike. The next morning a drunken Kurosawa runs him over in his taxi. Feeling guilty about the accident, he is soon driving Matsuda to northern Japan. Matsuda remains uncommunicative and unfriendly.
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Unforgiven (2013)
, 2h15Directed by Lee Sang-il
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Ken Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Koichi Sato, Yūya Yagira, Shiori Kutsuna, Eiko Koike
Rating69%
Shortly after the start of the Meiji period, a former samurai under the Edo Shogunate, Jubei Kamata, flees from government forces on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Jubei kills his pursuers and disappears, but remains infamous as “Jubei the Killer”.
Villain (2010)
Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Eri Fukatsu, Akira Emoto, Masaki Okada, Kirin Kiki, Hikari Mitsushima
Rating69%
Abandoned by his mother at an early age, Yuichi Shimizu (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a young man who lives with and takes care of his grandparents in a decaying fishing village near Nagasaki. He works as a blue-collar day-labourer and leads a lonely life: his only real interest is his car.
Hula Girls (2006)
, 2hDirected by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yu Aoi, Ittoku Kishibe, Sumiko Fuji, Eri Tokunaga
Rating69%
Pour tenter de trouver un substitut économique face à la prochaine fermeture de la mine, un maire a la curieuse idée d’ouvrir un Centre de Danses Hawaïennes dans un village aux hivers rigoureux, au nord du japon en 1965. Il engage une professeur de danse, ancienne étoile à Tokyo, pour enseigner les rudiments du déhanchement à une population locale très réticente. Le film retrace l’histoire vrai et incroyable de cette folle aventure.
Scrap Heaven (2005)
, 1h57Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ryō Kase, Joe Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama, Akira Emoto, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Ken Mitsuishi
Rating67%
A pharmacist, police officer, and a toilet cleaner are riding a bus on a fateful night. The trio share a bizarre and tragic, life-altering experience when the bus becomes hijacked by a terrorist. The terrorist forces the three into a violent game of Rock, Paper, Scissors and Russian roulette, which toilet cleaner Testsu loses. The terrorist then shoots Tetsu, causing the bus to make a sudden stop. After noticing that pharmacist Saki has only one eye, the terrorist suddenly feels remorse and finally turns the weapon on himself. The tragic bus ride leaves police officer Shingo feeling humiliated and ashamed of himself, for not handling the bus hijacking.
Border Line (2003)
, 1h58Directed by Lee Sang-il
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Tetsu Sawaki, Yumi Aso, Ken Mitsuishi, Jun Murakami, Kanako Fukaura, Yoshiyuki Morishita
Rating68%
The film opens with Matsuda being uncooperative at school. We learn via a radio broadcast that he then murders his father and runs away on his bike. The next morning a drunken Kurosawa runs him over in his taxi. Feeling guilty about the accident, he is soon driving Matsuda to northern Japan. Matsuda remains uncommunicative and unfriendly.