Lee Sang-il (film director)

Lee Sang-il
Born	January 6, 1974 Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Film director

Lee Sang-il
Japanese name
Kanji	李相日
Kana	イ・サンイル
Transcriptions Romanization I San'iru
Korean name
Hangul	이상일
Hanja	李相日
Transcriptions Revised Romanization I Sang-il McCune–Reischauer Yi Sang-il

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 Akunin
• 2013 Unforgiven
• 2016 Rage

References

1. 第 30 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 2011-01-13.
2. "Unforgiven". TIFF. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
3. "Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition". Indiewire. Retrieved 2013-08-17.

External links

• Sang-il Lee at the Internet Movie Database
• 李相日 (Sang-il Lee) at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)