The Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award (日本映画監督協会新人賞, Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō) is given annually by the Directors Guild of Japan to a new director of a film released that year who is considered the most "suitable" for the award.[1][2] The winner is selected by a committee formed of DGJ members.[1] All formats—feature film, documentary, television, video, etc.—are eligible for consideration.[1] In some years when there was no apparent winner, the Guild only issued a "citation" (奨励賞 (shōreishō)) or did not give out the award. Multiple awards have been given in other years. With a long history, many of Japan's major postwar directors have received the award, including Nagisa Ōshima, Susumu Hani, Yoshimitsu Morita, Masayuki Suo, Takeshi Kitano, and Shunji Iwai.[3]
Recipients of the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award[4]
Year | Winner | Film | Notes |
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1960 | Nagisa Ōshima | Cruel Story of Youth | |
1961 | Susumu Hani | Bad Boys | |
1962 | Kirio Urayama | Foundry Town | |
1963 | No award | ||
1964 | No award | ||
1965 | Kei Kumai | Nihon Rettō | |
1966 | Sadao Nakajima | Yakuza (893) Gurentai | |
1967 | Toshiya Fujita | Hikō Shōnen: Hinode no Sakebi | |
1968 | No award | ||
1969 | Masanobu Deme | Oretachi no Kōya | Citation only |
1970 | Shinsuke Ogawa | Summer in Narita | |
1971 | Yōichi Higashi | Yasashii Nipponjin | |
1972 | Shunya Itō | Female Convict 701: Scorpion | Citation only |
1973 | Noboru Tanaka | Confidential: The Hell of Tortured Prostitutes | Citation only |
1974 | No award | ||
1975 | No award | ||
1976 | Seijirō Kōyama | Futatsu no Hāmonika | Citation only |
1977 | Hōjin Hashiura | Hoshizora no Marionetto | |
1978 | No award | ||
1979 | Claude Gagnon | Keiko | |
1980 | Kōhei Oguri | Muddy River | Citation only |
1981 | Kazuyuki Izutsu | Gaki Teikoku | Citation only |
1982 | No award | ||
1983 | Yoshimitsu Morita | The Family Game | |
1984 | No award | ||
1985 | Shinichirō Sawai | Early Spring Story | |
1986 | Kazuo Hara | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | |
1987 | Masashi Yamamoto | Robinson's Garden | |
1988 | Uson Kim | Yun's Town | |
1989 | Junji Sakamoto | Dotsuitarunen | Two winners |
1989 | Gō Takamine | Untamagiru | Two winners |
1990 | Takeshi Kitano | Boiling Point | Two winners; citation only |
1990 | Fumiki Watanabe | Shimaguni Konjō | Two winners; citation only |
1991 | Masayuki Suo | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't | |
1992 | Hideyuki Hirayama | The Games Teachers Play | Multiple winners |
1992 | Tsutomu Makiya | Pineapple Tours | Multiple winners |
1992 | Yūji Nakae | Pineapple Tours | Multiple winners |
1992 | Hayashi Tōma | Pineapple Tours | Multiple winners |
1993 | Shunji Iwai | Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? | Two winners |
1993 | Yasunori Terada | My Wife Is Filipina | Two winners |
1994 | Tomoyuki Furumaya | This Window Is Yours | |
1995 | Gō Rijū | Berlin | |
1996 | Isshin Inudō | Two People Talking | |
1997 | Masato Hara | Twentieth Century Nostalgia | |
1998 | Toshiaki Toyoda | Pornostar | |
1999 | Akihiko Shiota | Moonlight Whispers Don't Look Back |
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2000 | Akira Ogata | Boy's Choir | |
2001 | Masato Ishioka | Scoutman aka Pain | |
2002 | Sujin Kim | Through the Night | |
2003 | Kiyoshi Sasabe | Chirusoku no Natsu | |
2004 | Nami Iguchi | Dogs & Cats | |
2005 | Izumi Takahashi | The Soup, One Morning | |
2006 | Shōtarō Kobayashi | Kazoku no Hiketsu | |
2007 | Satoko Yokohama | German + Rain | |
2008 | Yuki Tanada | One Million Yen Girl | |
2009 | Yū Irie | 8000 Miles | [5][2] |
2010 | Tatsushi Ōmori | Kenta to Jun to Kayo-chan no Kuni | [6] |
2011 | Mami Sunada | Death of a Japanese Salesman | [7] |
2012 | Ryūichi Shimada | Doko ni mo ikenai | [8] |
2013 | Masahide Ichii | Hakoiri musuko no koi | [9] |
2014 | Keiichi Kobayashi | About the Pink Sky | [10] |
2015 | Daishi Matsunaga | Pieta in the Toilet | |
2016 | Shoji Hiroshi | Ken and Kazu | |
2017 | Isora Iwakiri | The Blooming | [11] |
2018 | Shinichiro Ueda | One Cut of the Dead | |
2019 | Toshiyuki Teruya | Senkotsu | |
2020 | HIKARI | 37 Seconds | |
2021 | Shinzo Katayama | Sagasu |