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Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year
The Director of the Year (最優秀監督賞) of the Japan Academy Prize is one of the annual Awards given by the Nippon Academy-sho association (Japan Academy Prize Association).
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Yoji Yamada
Yoji Yamada (山田 洋次 Yamada Yōji, born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese director best known for his Tora-san series of films.
He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the...
Yoshitaro Nomura
Yoshitarō Nomura (野村芳太郎 Nomura Yoshitarō, 23 April 1919 in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan-8 April 2005 in Shinjuku, Tokyo) was a prolific Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first accredited film (Pigeon (鳩, Hato)) was released in...
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Seijun Suzuki
Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順, Suzuki Seijun), born Seitaro Suzuki (鈴木 清太郎 Suzuki Seitarō) on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent...
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Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku (深作 欣二, Fukasaku Kinji, 3 July 1930 – 12 January 2003) was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer. He...
Juzo Itami
Juzo Itami (伊丹 十三, Itami Jūzō, May 15, 1933 – December 20, 1997) was an actor and (later) a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he...
Masahiro Shinoda
Masahiro Shinoda (篠田 正浩, Shinoda Masahiro, born March 9, 1931 in Gifu, Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese film director, married to the actress Shima Iwashita. He retired from directing after making the historical epic Spy Sorge.
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Masayuki Suo
Masayuki Suo (周防正行, Suo Masayuki, born October 29, 1956 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.
According to Suo:
In 1982,...
Shohei Imamura
Shōhei Imamura (今村 昌平, Imamura Shōhei, Tokyo, 15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.
His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film...
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Hideyuki Hirayama
Hideyuki Hirayama (平山秀幸, Hirayama Hideyuki, born September 18, 1950 in Kitakyushu) is a Japanese film director. He was given a Best Director award at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival.
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Yasuo Furuhata
Yasuo Furuhata (降旗康男 Furuhata Yasuo, born 19 August 1934 in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan) is a Japanese film director.
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Junji Sakamoto
Junji Sakamoto (阪本 順治 Sakamoto Junji; October 1, 1957-) is a Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial...
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Isao Yukisada
Isao Yukisada (行定 勲, Yukisada Isao, born August 3, 1968) from Kumamoto, Japan is a Japanese film director. He served as assistant director on Shunji Iwai's Love Letter, April Story, and Swallowtail Butterfly.
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Yoshimitsu Morita
Yoshimitsu Morita (森田 芳光, Morita Yoshimitsu, January 25, 1950 –) is a Japanese film director. Self-taught, he made his debut in 1981. In 1983 he won acclaim for his movie Kazoku Gēmu (The Family Game), which was voted the best film of the year by...
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Yoichi Sai
Yoichi Sai (崔洋一 Japanese: Sai Yōichi, Korean: Choi Yang-il (Hangul: 최양일, Hanja: 崔洋一, Revised Romanization: Choe Yang-il, McCune-Reischauer: Ch'oe Yang-il), born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese film director. His mother is...
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Takashi Yamazaki
Takashi Yamazaki (山崎 貴, Yamazaki Takashi, born June 12, 1964 in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and VFX director. He won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2006 for...
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Sang-il Lee
Sang-il Lee (Ri Sojitsu, born 6 January 1974 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan) is a Korean-Japanese film director and screenwriter. His first film Chong was a short film about the lives of third generation Koreans living in Japan.
He won the Best...
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Yojiro Takita
Yōjirō Takita (滝田 洋二郎 Takita Yōjirō, born December 4, 1955 in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan), is an Academy Award-winning Japanese filmmaker.
Yōjirō Takita entered the film industry through Mukai Productions, where he served as an assistant director....
Joji Matsuoka
Jōji Matsuoka (松岡 錠司, Matsuoka Jōji, born November 7, 1961) is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984....
