Kiyoshi Sasabe (佐々部清) (January 8, 1958 – March 31, 2020) was a Japanese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

Career

Born in

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, Sasabe graduated from

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before attending the Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakuin (now the Japan Academy of Moving Images). He worked as an assistant director to

Yōichi Sai was a Japanese film director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of Japan. Life and career Sai was born on 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. His mother was Japanese and his father was Zainichi Korean. Sai won the Best Screenp ...

, Seiji Izumi, and

Yasuo Furuhata was a Japanese film director. He was a director of Toei film company and he often worked with Ken Takakura in such films as '' Eki'' and ''Shin Abashiri Bangaichi''. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and 31st Internat ...

before debuting as a director in 2002 with ''

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''. He received the

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for '' Chirusoku no natsu'' in 2003. His ''

Half a Confession is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. Summary Respected inspector Soichiro Kaji is imprisoned for killing his wife, Keiko, who, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, r ...

'' won the best picture award at the 28th Japan Academy Prize. He also directed

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Selected filmography

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'' (2002) *'' Chirusoku no natsu'' (2003) *''

'' (2004) *'' Deguchi no nai umi'' (2006) *''

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'' (2007) *'' Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite'' (2011) *''Kono Michi'' (TBA)

References

External links

Official site
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1958 births 2020 deaths People from Shimonoseki Japanese film directors {{japan-film-director-stub