Yuya Ishii (director)

Yuya Ishii (石井裕也) 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.

Personal life
Yuya Ishii won best director at the 2010 Blue Ribbon Awards, 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.

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)
 * The Asian Angel (2021)
 * A Madder Red (2021)
 * Masked Hearts (2023)
 * The Moon (2023)
 * The Real You (2024)

Television

 * When a Tree Falls (2018)

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


 * Mainichi Film Award
 * 2013 - "Best Director" - The Great Passage


 * Kinema Junpo Award
 * 2013 - "Best Director" - The Great Passage