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Yoichi Sai
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| In 1923 Kim Shun-pei left Cheju, an isolated
island in the far South of Korea for Osaka, Japan, dreaming
of making his fortune in a new land. Contrary to his hopes,
what was waiting for Shun-pei in Japan was a brutal life of
discrimination and hard labour. With his remarkable physical
strength, cunning and ruthlessness he overcomes the odds stacked
against him and opens a kamaboko (steamed fish cake) factory,
which before long is a success, bringing him the fortune he
coveted for so long. However, with no limit to his obsession
for money, Shun-pei gradually transforms himself into a ruthless
loan shark. Blood and Bones paints an unflinching portrait of
a man deeply bound to his ego and obsessions and the web of
turmoil his wife, mistress, children, relatives and all those
around him are drawn into as a result of his choices and brutal,
violent nature. Based on a true story by Yan Sogiru, Beat Takeshi
portrays the epic rise and fall of a first generation Korean
man in a defining role. . |
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Screenplay Sai Yoichi, Wi-Shing Chong
Photography (colour) Tsuyoshi Hamada
Editing Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Music Taro Iwashiro
ICast Beat Takeshi, Hirofumi Arai, Tomoko Tabata, Joe Odagiri, Kyoka Suzuki
Production Nozomu Enoki
Year of production 2004
Running time 144'
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Yoichi Sai
He was born in Nagano in 1949 and started his career as an assistant director for Nagisa Oshima and Toru Murakawa. For his directorial d'but, Jukkai no mosquito (1983), Sai received The Best Newcomer Award in the Mainichi Film Competition and eventually this film went to Venice International Film Festival. After completing several film projects for Kadokawa Pictures and for TV, he made Tsuki ha docchi ni deteiru (All Under the Moon) (1993) and sprang to fame, eventually winning 53 domestic awards, namely Hochi Film Award and Nikkan Sports Film Award. His recent films include Keimusho no naka (2002), and the box-office hit, Quill (2004). In the fifth edition of Asiaticafilmmediale a retrospective was dedicated to Yoichi Sai.
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