Lee Sang-il (film director)
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Occupation | Film director |
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Hangul | 이상일 | ||||||
Hanja | 李相日 | ||||||
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Kanji | 李相日 | ||||||
Kana | イ・サンイル | ||||||
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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.
Hula Girls was declared best Japanese film of 2006 by Kinema Junpo (キネマ旬報), and Lee won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards for the film.[1] His film Unforgiven was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[2][3]
Filmography
- 2000 Chong
- 2002 Border Line
- 2004 69
- 2005 Scrap Heaven
- 2006 Hula Girls
- 2010 Kaidan - Horror Classics (Ayashiki Bungo Kaidan) in ep. 3 "The Nose"
- 2010 Villain
- 2013 Unforgiven
- 2016 Rage
- 2017 The Blue Hearts (Blue Hearts ga Kikoeru) - "1001 Violins
References
- ^ 第 30 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ^ "Unforgiven". TIFF. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ^ "Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition". Indiewire. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
External links
- Sang-il Lee at IMDb
- 李相日 (Sang-il Lee) at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)