Nikkei reports on Sasaki’s departure: he died in the hospital where he was hospitalized with pneumonia.
Shoichiro Sasaki was born in 1936 in Tokyo into a family of journalists. According to Sasaki, his father was fired from his job for criticizing Japanese militarists and, after trying to kill him with a poisoned peach, he was thrown into a dungeon. Where he died.
Shoichiro graduated from the private St. Paul University in Tokyo, was hired by NHK, the national broadcasting corporation, in 1960 and began his career as a radio works director. His screen debut was the drama “Mother”, released in 1970; He directed the film from his own script.
Other projects are “The Wanderer”, “The Girl from Dream Island”, “Red Flowers”, “Summer Album”.
