Shinichiro Sawai
- Directing
- August 16, 1938 · Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
- September 3, 2021
Biography
Shinichiro Sawai (1938–2021) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for The Tragedy of “W” (1984), Early Spring Story (1985), Maison Ikkoku (1986), Lovers’ Time (1987), Bloom in the Moonlight (1993), and Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007). He began his career at Toei in 1961 as an assistant director, working under Masahiro Makino, before making his directorial debut with The Wild Daisy (1981). Sawai received the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award and the Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year.
Known for
Filmography
- Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth And Sea · Director
- Seventeen · Writer, Director
- The Story of Dan the Puppy · Writer, Director
- Diary of Early Winter Shower · Director, Screenplay
- The Secret 18th Group · Director
- A Brief Message from the Heart · Director, Screenplay
- Juukou B-Fighter · Director, Series Director
- Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” · Screenplay, Director
- Fukuzawa Yukichi · Director
- Memories of You · Director
- Lover's Time · Director, Screenplay
- Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy · Director
- Early Spring Story · Director
- W's Tragedy · Director, Screenplay
- Mahjong Horoki · Screenplay
- Space Sheriff Shaider · Director
- The Wild Daisy · Director
- The Revolt · Assistant Director
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan · Dialogue Coach
- Truckster of Guts · Screenplay
- Truckster Goes to Hokkaido · Screenplay, Assistant Director
- The Wild Trucker · Screenplay
- Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me · Writer
- 青春トルコ日記 処女すべり · Assistant Director
- Military Comfort Woman · Assistant Director
- Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs · Assistant Director
- Big Bad Wolf · Assistant Director
- Love Lost in Tears · Assistant Director
- Patience Has An End · Screenplay
- Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny · Assistant Director
- A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life · Screenplay