Sang-il Lee is a Korean film director and screenwriter working in Japan. His first film "Chon" was a short film about the lives of third-generation Zainichi Koreans living in Japan. "Hula Girls" was named the best Japanese film of 2006 by Kinema Junpo, and Lee won awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Japan Academy Film Prize 2007 for this film. His film "The Unforgiven" was shown in the Special Presentations section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.