Mainichi Film Award for Best Director

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Mainichi Film Award for Best Director
Awarded forBest director of the year
Country Japan
First awarded1946

The Mainichi Film Award for Best Director is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards. [1] [2]

List of winners

YearFilmDirector
1946 Minshū no Teki Tadashi Imai
1947 One Wonderful Sunday Akira Kurosawa
1948 Woman
Shōzō
Apostasy
Keisuke Kinoshita
1949 Late Spring Yasujirō Ozu
1950 Itsuwareru Seisō Kōzaburō Yoshimura
1951 Repast Mikio Naruse
1952 Gendai-jin
Honjitsu Kyūshin
Minoru Shibuya
1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water Tadashi Imai
1954 Twenty-Four Eyes
The Garden of Women
Keisuke Kinoshita
1955 Floating Clouds Mikio Naruse
1956 Mahiru no ankoku Tadashi Imai
1957 The Rice People
Jun'ai Monogatari
Tadashi Imai
1958 The Ballad of Narayama Keisuke Kinoshita
1959 Niguruma no Uta
Ningen no Kabe
Satsuo Yamamoto
1960 Her Brother
Jokyo
Kon Ichikawa
1961 The Human Condition Masaki Kobayashi
1962 Being Two Isn't Easy
The Broken Commandment
Kon Ichikawa
1963 The Insect Woman Shohei Imamura
1964 The Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara
1965 A Fugitive from the Past Tomu Uchida
1966 Shiroi Kyotō Satsuo Yamamoto
1967 A Man Vanishes Shohei Imamura
1968 The Human Bullet Kihachi Okamoto
1969 Kigeki Ippatsu Daihisshō
It's Tough Being a Man
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Yoji Yamada
1970 Men and War: Part I Satsuo Yamamoto
1971 Silence
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Tora-san's Love Call
Masahiro Shinoda

Yoji Yamada
1972 The Rendezvous
Tabi no Omosa
Kōichi Saitō
1973 Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Yoji Yamada
1974 Castle of Sand Yoshitarō Nomura
1975 Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director Kaneto Shindo
1976 Fumō Chitai Satsuo Yamamoto
1977 The Yellow Handkerchief Yoji Yamada
1978 The Incident
The Demon
Yoshitarō Nomura
1979 Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko Kazuhiko Hasegawa
1980 Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa
1981 Muddy River Kōhei Oguri
1982 Fall Guy
Dotonbori River
Kinji Fukasaku
1983 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima
1984 The Funeral Juzo Itami
1985 Ran Akira Kurosawa
1986 The Sea and Poison Kei Kumai
1987 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On Kazuo Hara
1988 The Discarnates Nobuhiko Obayashi
1989 Shaso Toshio Masuda
1990 Tugumi Jun Ichikawa
1991 My Sons Yoji Yamada
1992 The River with No Bridge Yōichi Higashi
1993 Byōin de Shinu to Iukoto Jun Ichikawa
1994 Like a Rolling Stone Tatsumi Kumashiro
1995 A Last Note Kaneto Shindo
1996 Shall We Dance? Masayuki Suo
1997 The Eel Shohei Imamura
1998 Begging for Love Hideyuki Hirayama
1999 Keiho Yoshimitsu Morita
2000 Face Junji Sakamoto
2001 Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki
2002 Out
The Laughing Frog
Hideyuki Hirayama
2003 Doing Time Yoichi Sai
2004 Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima
The Face of Jizo
Kazuo Kuroki
2005 Itsuka dokusho suruhi Akira Ogata
2006 What the Snow Brings Kichitaro Negishi
2007 I Just Didn't Do It Masayuki Suo
2008 United Red Army Kōji Wakamatsu
2009 Love Exposure Sion Sono
2010 13 Assassins Takashi Miike
2011 Saudade Katsuya Tomita
2012 The Kirishima Thing Daihachi Yoshida
2013 The Great Passage Yuya Ishii
2014 The Light Shines Only There Mipo O
2015 Fires on the Plain Shinya Tsukamoto
2016 The Long Excuse Miwa Nishikawa
2017 Bangkok Nites Katsuya Tomita
2018 One Cut of the Dead Shinichiro Ueda
2019 Listen to the Universe Kei Ishikawa
2020 True Mothers Naomi Kawase
2021 Drive My Car Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2022 Small, Slow But Steady Shō Miyake
2023 The Moon Yuya Ishii
2024 All the Long Nights Shō Miyake

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References

  1. "コンクールの歴史" [History of Mainichi Film Award] (in Japanese). The Mainichi Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
  2. "Mainichi Film Concours" (in Japanese). IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 2015-04-21.