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.
Biography Ishii was born in Urawa City, Saitama Prefecture on June 21, 1983. He is the second of two brothers and was raised by a single father after his mother succumbed to an illness when he was young.
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.
In June 2018, Ishii shared the news that he had remarried actress Itsuki Sagara, who is twelve years younger than him, and that they were already expecting their first child. A year later in late August 2019, it was announced that his wife had given birth to their first child. His wife has also since retired from acting to focus on their family.
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) The Real You (2024) One Last Love Letter (2026) The Secret Battlefield (2026)
Television When a Tree Falls (2018) Simulation: Defeat in the Summer of 1941 (2025)
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
References
External links
'Bare-Assed Japan' (2005) - Edward Yang New Talent at the 2nd Asian Film awards http://www.lovehkfilm.com/panasia/bare_assed_japan.html Yuya Ishii marries actress Hikari Mitsushima http://www.tokyograph.com/news/hikari-mitsushima-marries-director-yuya-ishii