Lee Sang-il

Korean spelling
Hangeul	이상일
Hanja	李 相 日
Revised Romanization	I Sang-il
McCune- Reischauer	Yi Sang-il
See also : Korean name

Lee Sang-il (born January 6, 1974 in Niigata , Japan ) is a Japanese director of Korean origin.

After studying at Kanagawa University , he graduated from the Japanese Film Academy. His graduation film on this was entitled Ao - Chong and was awarded the main prize at the Pia Film Festival . With the support of this film festival, his first feature film, Border Line, followed in 2002 . Like Ao - Chong , it is dedicated to the identity of the Korean minority in Japan .

At 69 sixty nine in 2004, he filmed an autobiographical novel by Ryū Murakami . This was his first work for a large studio ( Tōei ). After the drama Scrap Heaven (2005), his film Hula Girls finally came out in 2006 , in which young women try to revive their cities and boost tourism by recreating Hawaii . The film won numerous awards and brought Lee two Japanese Academy Awards and a Kinema Jumpō Prize . His next film Villain (2010) was even more successful at the Japanese Academy Awards, winning five of its nine nominations.

Filmography

• 2000: Ao - Chong ( 青 〜chong〜 )
• 2002: Border Line
• 2004: 69 sixty nine
• 2005: Scrap Heaven ( ス ク ラ ッ プ ・ ヘ ブ ン , sukurappu hebun )
• 2006: Hula Girls ( フ ラ ガ ー ル , hura gāru )
• 2010: Villain ( 悪 人 , Akunin )
• 2013: The Unforgiven ( 許 さ れ ざ る 者 , Yurusarezaru Mono )

Web links

• Lee Sang-il in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview at Midnight Eye (English)

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1. ↑ Japan Academy Prize (in Japanese)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Sang-il is the first name.