Lee Sang-il (film director)
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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.
In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
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李相日 | |||||||
Born | (1974-01-06) 6 January 1974 (age 50) | ||||||
Education | Japan Institute of the Moving Image | ||||||
Occupation | Film director | ||||||
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Kanji | 李相日 | ||||||
Kana | リ・サンイル | ||||||
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Hangul | 이상일 | ||||||
Hanja | 李相日 | ||||||
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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]