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.^[1]

Yuya Ishii
Born	石井裕也 1983 Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Movie director & writer
Years active	2005-present
Spouses	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)^[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

Mainichi Film Award

• 2013 - "Best Director" - The Great Passage

Kinema Junpo Award

• 2013 - "Best Director" - The Great Passage