Yōichi Sai Movies

A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...

Based on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki

Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An...

TBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a photographer.

Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't...

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.

During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With...

Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are...

A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume...

Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru

Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1976 film.

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent...

Documentary film about the discrimination against zainichi, directed by Yoshihiko Okamoto.