2 Movies Directed by Sang-il Lee

Villain

Villain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-09-11

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

139 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (852 Reviews)

Director:

Sang-il Lee

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Shèichi Yoshida (based on the novel by)

Shèichi Yoshida (screenplay)

Sang-il Lee (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A young woman's murder provokes reflection on the ugliness and villainy of modern society.

Unforgiven

Unforgiven

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-13

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

135 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (942 Reviews)

Director:

Sang-il Lee

Cast:

Writer:

David Webb Peoples

Sang-il Lee (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscarè-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jubee Kamata (Oscarè nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jubee is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more.

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