Yōichi Sai Movies

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume...

A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.

A retired yakuza-connected bar master is pulled back into a dangerous underworld when a mysterious woman claiming to be a relative's acquaintance...

Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't...

In the year 199X, on the dark, shady streets of New Kabuki Town, the free-for-all between gangs of young delinquents and a corrupt police force is...

Interview with members of the crew on the making of the 1978 film "Empire of Passion."

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.

During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With...

Based on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki

TBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a photographer.

Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent...

Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1976 film.

Documentary film about the discrimination against zainichi, directed by Yoshihiko Okamoto.