Shinichiro Sawai
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 16, 1938
- Place of birth
- Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
- Died
- 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.
Movies directed by Shinichiro Sawai
- W's Tragedy 1984 · ★ 7.7
- Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth And Sea 2007 · ★ 5.6
- Early Spring Story 1985 · ★ 6.4
- Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy 1986 · ★ 5.7
- Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” 1993 · ★ 6.5
- The Wild Daisy 1981 · ★ 6.3
- Diary of Early Winter Shower 1998 · ★ 7.7
- Lover's Time 1987 · ★ 7.0
- The Story of Dan the Puppy 2002 · ★ 7.3
- Memories of You 1988 · ★ 6.5
- Fukuzawa Yukichi 1991 · ★ 8.0
- A Brief Message from the Heart 1995 · ★ 8.0
- Seventeen 2003 · ★ 6.0