Yuya Ishii (director) explained

is a Japanese film director, writer, editor, producer and actor best known for his 2013 movie The Great Passage for which he won best director at the 2013 Japanese Academy Awards.^[1]

Personal life

Yuya Ishii won best director at the 2010 Blue Ribbon Awards,^{[2] [3]} and the movie also resulted in his marriage in late 2010 to the lead actress Hikari Mitsushima, a former member of the J-pop group member Folder 5 and actress in such films as Death Note (2006) and Love Exposure (2008). They divorced in 2016.^[4]

Filmography

Films

• Rebel, Jiro's Love (2006)
• Girl Sparks (2007)
• Of Monster Mode (2007)
• Bare-assed Japan (2007)
• To Walk Beside You (2009)
• Sawako Decides (2010)
• Mitsuko Delivers (2011)
• Azemichi no dandi (2011)
• The Great Passage (2013)
• The Vancouver Asahi (2014)
• Our Family (2014)
• The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017)
• Almost a Miracle (2019)
• All the Things We Never Said (2020)^[5]
• The Asian Angel (2021)
• A Madder Red (2021)^[6]
• Masked Hearts (2023)^[7]
• The Moon (2023)^[8]
• The Real You (2024)^[9]

Television

• When a Tree Falls (2018)^[10]

Awards

Asian Film Awards

• 2008 - Edward Yang New Talent
• 2018 - "Best Director" - The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

Blue Ribbon Awards

• 2011 - "Best Director" - Sawako Decides

Japanese Academy Awards

• 2013 - "Best Director" - The Great Passage

• 2013 - "Best Director" - The Great Passage

Kinema Junpo Award

• 2013 - "Best Director" - The Great Passage

References

1. Web site: 'The Great Passage' Wins Best Picture at Japan's Academy Awards.
2. Web site: Rekidai jushō ichiranhyō. Cinema Hochi. 30 June 2011.
3. Web site: 53rd Blue Ribbon Awards: Tetsuya Nakashima's "Kokuhaku" named Best Picture. TokyoGraph. 30 June 2011. 25 January 2011.
4. Web site: Hikari Mitsushima announces divorce, dating Kento Nagayama. 2016-05-21. 2016-08-31.
5. Web site: 生きちゃった. June 24, 2024. eiga.com.
6. Web site: 石井裕也×尾野真千子「茜色に焼かれる」公開、生きにくい時代に翻弄される母子描く. February 26, 2021. Crank-in!.
7. Web site: 松岡茉優と窪田正孝のW主演作「愛にイナズマ」今秋公開、監督・脚本は石井裕也. April 25, 2023. Natalie.
8. Web site: 月. June 30, 2023. eiga.com.
9. Web site: 本心. June 21, 2024. eiga.com.
10. Web site: 妻夫木聡×井上真央『乱反射』9月21日劇場公開決定 石井裕也監督「悲願でした」. February 26, 2022. Real Sound.

External links

• • 'Bare-Assed Japan' (2005) - Edward Yang New Talent at the 2nd Asian Film awards http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/bare_assed_japan.html
• Yuya Ishii marries actress Hikari Mitsushima http://www.tokyograph.com/news/hikari-mitsushima-marries-director-yuya-ishii