Shinichiro Sawai

Shinichiro Sawai 19382021 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