| Lee Sang-il | |||||||||||||||||
| Native Name: | 李相日 | ||||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | ja | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1974 1, df=yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Niigata, Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| Education: | Japan Institute of the Moving Image | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Film director | ||||||||||||||||
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is a Korean-Japanese film director and screenwriter.
His first film, Chong, was a medium-length film about the lives of third generation Koreans living in Japan.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]