Kiyoshi Sasabe (佐々部清) (January 8, 1958 – March 31, 2020) was a Japanese
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
.
Career
Born in
Shimonoseki
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is a Cities of Japan, city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 248,193 in 128,762 households and a pop ...
, Sasabe graduated from
Meiji University
is a Private university, private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Originally founded as Meiji Law School () by three lawyers in 1881, it became a university in April 1920.
As of May 2023, Meiji has 32,261 undergradu ...
before attending the Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakuin (now the
Japan Academy of Moving Images).
He worked as an assistant director to
Yōichi Sai,
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 ''Station (1981 film), Eki'' and ''Shin Abashiri Bangaichi''. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Yea ...
before debuting as a director in 2002 with ''
Hi wa mata noboru''.
He received the
Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for ''
Chirusoku no natsu'' in 2003.
His ''
Half a Confession'' won the best picture award at the 28th
Japan Academy Prize.
He also directed
TV movies
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.
Selected filmography
*''
Hi wa mata noboru'' (2002)
*''
Chirusoku no natsu'' (2003)
*''
Half a Confession'' (2004)
*''
Deguchi no nai umi'' (2006)
*''
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms'' (2007)
*''
Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Tenten Hosokawa. It was adapted into a live-action television series in 2009 and a live-action film in 2011.
Cast
* Norika Fujiwara (TV series), Aoi Miyazaki (film)
* Taizo Harada (TV series) ...
'' (2011)
*''Kono Michi'' (TBA)
References
External links
Official site*
1958 births
2020 deaths
People from Shimonoseki
Japanese film directors
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