Mainichi Film Award for Best Director

Mainichi Film Award for Best Director
Mainichi Film Award for Best Director
Awarded for	Best director of the year
Country	Japan
First awarded	1946

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

List of winners

Year	Film	Director
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

References

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

[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.

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