title: Yuya Ishii (director)
text: # 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
  