Lee Sang-il (film director)

Zainichi Korean flimmaker (born 1974)

Lee Sang-il

李相日

Born

(1974-01-06) 6 January 1974 (age 50)

Niigata, Japan

Education

Japan Institute of the Moving Image

Occupation

Film director

Japanese name

Kanji

李相日

Kana

リ・サンイル

Transcriptions
Romanization	Ri San'iru

Korean name

Hangul

이상일

Hanja

李相日

Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	I Sang-il
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Sang-il

Lee Sang-il (李相日, Ri San'iru, Korean: 이상일, born January 6, 1974, in Niigata, Japan) is a Korean-Japanese 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 Jumpo, 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" (TV series)
2010 Villain
2013 Unforgiven
2016 Rage
2017 The Blue Hearts
2022 Wandering^[4]
2025 National Treasure^[5]

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. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
^ "Wandering | JAPAN CUTS 2023". Japan Society. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
^ "吉沢亮、稀代の女方歌舞伎役者に原作:吉田修一×監督:李相日『国宝』映画化". Oricon. Retrieved 5 March 2024.