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Sang-il Lee
Niigata, Japan
Sang-il Lee is a Korean film director and screenwriter who works in Japan. His first film, “Chong,” was a short film about the lives of third generation Zainichi Koreans living in…
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Sang-il Lee is a Korean film director and screenwriter who works in Japan. His first film, “Chong,” was a short film about the lives of third generation Zainichi Koreans living in Japan. “Hula Girls” was declared best Japanese film of 2006 by Kinema Junpo, and Lee won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards for the film. His film “Unforgiven” was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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2025
Kokuho
Movie Director
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2022
The Wandering Moon
Movie Writer
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2022
Pachinko
TV show Director
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2017
The Blue Hearts
Movie Director
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2016
Rage
Movie Director
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2013
Unforgiven
Movie Screenplay
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2010
Villain
Movie Director
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2010
Kaidan Horror Classics
TV show Director
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2010
Kaidan Horror Classics
Movie Director
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2008
The Short Films: We Were All Once Children
Movie Director
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2006
Hula Girls
Movie Director
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2005
Scrap Heaven
Movie Writer
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2004
69
Movie Director
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2003
Border Line
Movie Writer
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2000
Blue – Chong
Movie Writer
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Tagatame
Movie Director
