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Yuya Ishii (石井裕也, Ishii Yūya) 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]

Yuya Ishii
Born	石井裕也 1983 Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Movie director & writer
Years active	2005-present
Spouse(s)	Hikari Mitsushima ​ ​ (m. 2010; div. 2016)​ Itsuki Sagara ​ (m. 2018)​

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).[3] 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)
• The Asian Angel (2021)
• A Madder Red (2021)[5]

Television

• When a Tree Falls (2018)[6]

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

References

External links

• Yûya Ishii at IMDb
• '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

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