Sachio Yanai
Sachio Yanai
Born in Tokyo November 17, 1979. Yanai is a playwright and director. In 2001 he founded the theater production planning company Milkdera. Before dissolving the unit in 2009, Yanai produced 12 works, including Fusho no Shito-tachi, Utsukushii Shokutaku and Eien no Hana , as the unit’s leader, playwright and director. He debuted as a scriptwriter in 2010 with the eighth episode of the drama Azami-jo no Lullaby (Miss Azami’s Lullaby) (MBS) titled Tsuki no Hotaru (The Moon’s Firefly). In 2010 he founded the company Junanasenchi (17cm) with actor Yoshihiko Kitagawa. In 2011, the play Hana to Sakana (Flowers and Fish) written for the first Junanasenchi production won the 17th Japan Playwrights Association New Playwrights Award. This play uses devices from fantasy and science fiction and subject matter from history and folklore to depict people’s lives and conflicts. With conversation that carries the tension of a mystery and scenes that conjure up grand-scale images, it succeeds in constructing bordering worlds of reality and fantasy.
