Yōichi Higashi

Yōichi Higashi 東陽一 Higashi Yōichi was a Japanese film director He began his career working on documentaries at Iwanami Productions but after going independent turned to fiction film He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for Yasashii Nipponjin in 1971 and then the award for Best Director at the 17th Hochi Film Awards for The River with No Bridge In 1996 he won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for the film Village of Dreams