# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoichi-sai
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:53:01.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoichi-sai"
name: "Yoichi Sai"
slug: "yoichi-sai"
description: "Yōichi Sai  was a Korean film director who worked in Japan. He was the president of the Directors Guild of Japan."
tagline: "South Korean film director (1949-2022)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xmnelxm6X31BvSS6oQ7eNjb1KGa.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-07-06"
deathDate: "2022-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.05
  momentum:             0.5635883905013193
  historical:           8.872005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756406/"
    handle:    "nm0756406"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cd14f563-6df3-4a95-8c8c-758251129269"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "ياويكى ساى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichi_Sai"
    title: "Yoichi Sai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "یویچی سای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Sai"
    title: "Yōichi Sai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichi_Sai"
    title: "Yoichi Sai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E6%B4%8B%E4%B8%80"
    title: "崔洋一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B5%9C%EC%96%91%EC%9D%BC"
    title: "최양일"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%94%E6%B4%8B%E4%B8%80"
    title: "崔洋一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906332"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/226920"
    title: "Yōichi Sai"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump