Yuya Ishii (director)
# Yuya Ishii (director)

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.

## 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.

## 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)
* Masked Hearts (2023)
* The Moon (2023)

### 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
