Profile of past acting presidents

Profile of past acting presidents

Yoichi Choi (2004-2022)

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Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1949. After working as assistant director for directors such as Oshima Nagisa and Murakawa Toru, he made his theatrical directorial debut with "Mosquito on the 83th Floor," which was shown at the Venice International Film Festival in 84. He went on to direct a series of Kadokawa films, including "Someone Will Be Killed Someday" (93), as well as a number of television films, which blossomed into his talent. In 53, "Which Way is the Moon Rising?" won 96 film awards and brought him into the limelight. In 98, he studied at Yonsei University in Korea, where he interacted with many Korean filmmakers while researching the history of modern Korean cinema. After returning to Japan, he directed "Pig's Revenge" (02), which won the International Cinema Club Award at the Locarno Film Festival. In 04, he released "Inside the Prison," which won the Blue Ribbon Award and other awards. In XNUMX, he released "Quill" and "Blood and Bones," two popular and ambitious works that have been highly praised.

Yoji Yamada (2003-2004)

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Born in Osaka in 6. He was repatriated from Manchuria in 22, and after graduating from the University of Tokyo, he joined Shochiku Ofuna Studio as an assistant director in 29. He studied under Yuzo Kawashima, Yoshitaro Nomura, Minoru Shibuya, and others. From around this time, he also started writing screenplays. In 36, he was promoted to director for ``Nikai no tanin'' After working on comedy works such as ``Baka Marudashi'' and ``Unga yokerya'', he released ``It's Tough Being a Man'' in 44, and worked on 8 works until the series ended in 48. The first full-fledged historical drama of 14, "Tasogare Seibei," was a big hit. He has won numerous film awards including the Japan Academy Award. Other works include ``Kazoku'', ``Douhou'', ``Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi'', ``Harukanaru yama no yobigoe', ``Downtown Heroes'', and ``Son''. His ``School'' series, which takes place in night schools and special needs schools, has also received high praise. He is also known for his deep knowledge of rakugo.

Awards

• Blue Ribbon Director's Award (41, 52) "If you're lucky" "Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness"
• Annual representative scenario (more than 43 times since 10)
• Minister of Education Award for Art Encouragement (44)
• Mainichi Film Competition Director Award (44, 46, 48, 52, 3)
• Mainichi Film Contest Screenplay Award (44, 48, 49, 52, 12)
• Golden Arrow Film Award (8th 45)
• Mainichi Art Award (12th/45)
• Kinema Junpo Japanese Film Director Award (45, 52, 3, 14)
• Kinema Junpo Screenplay Award (45, 49, 52, 14)
• Japan Film and Television Producers Association Special Award (47)
• Kikuchi Hiroshi Award (48)
• Blue Ribbon Award (Special Award/50)
• Japan Academy Award for Best Director (1st 53, 17th 6, 26th 15)
• Mainichi Film Contest Special Award (54)
• Asian Film Festival Best Comedy Award (26th 55)
• Shozo Makino Prize (57)
• Citizen Honor Award (57)
• Japan Academy Award Special Award (58)
• Fumiko Yamaji Award (Film Award/10th 61, 17th 5)
• Japanese Film Revival Award (4th 62)
• City of Vienna Johan Prize (1989)
• Fumiko Yamaji Award (Welfare Award/15th 3)
• Nikkan Sports Film Awards Yujiro Ishihara Award (4th 3, 9th 8)
• Hochi Film Award Best Picture (3/14)
• Nikkan Sports Film Awards Best Picture (6th 5, 13th 12, 15th 14)
• Pestalozzi Education Award (4th 7)
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (8)
• Asahi Prize (8)
• Fujimoto Award (Special Award/18th 11)
• Shanghai International Film Festival Best Director Award (4th 11)
• 14th Class Order of the Rising Sun with Small Cordon (XNUMX)
• Nikkan Sports Awards Coach Award (15th 14)
• Blue Ribbon Award (Best Picture/45th 15)
• Agency for Cultural Affairs Excellent Film Award (15)
• Japan Academy Award for Best Picture (26th 15) "Twilight Seibei"

Kinji Fukasaku (1996-2003)

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Born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 5. After graduating from Nihon University College of Art, he joined Toei in 28. He worked at the Planning Headquarters. The following year he joined the Tokyo Film Studio Assistant Director Department. In 36, he was promoted to director for ``Fûraibô tantei: Akai tani no sangeki''. In 39, he remade Chikichi Taniguchi's ``Jacoman to Tetsu'' starring Ken Takakura and became a hit. Since then, he has worked on films for Shochiku, independent producers, and collaborative films. He returned to Toei and released ``Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' in 48, which became a huge hit. It was made into a series and led Toei's shift away from chivalry. In 57, he won many awards including the Kine Jun Director Award for ``Kamata March''. In 12, "Battle Royale" was released. He died in 15 while filming "Battle Royale II." Other works include ``Proud Challenge'', ``Under the Flying Flag'', ``Yota the Hitokiri'' series, ``Graveyard of Honor'', ``The Yagyu Clan's Conspiracy'', ``Gate of Youth'', ``Day of Resurrection'', ``Makai Tensei'', and ``Shanghai Vance''. His works include "King," "Hitoten no Hito," "Hana no Ran," "Itsuka Giragirasuru Hi," "Chushingura Gaiden: Yotsuya Kaidan," and "Toys."

Awards

• Annual Representative Scenarios (47, 53, 61, 62) "Under the Flying Military Flag", "The Yagyu Clan's Conspiracy", "The Fireman", "Hisatsu 4 Ha will take revenge"
• Golden Arrow Award (Film Award/48) "Battle without Honor"
• Blue Ribbon Award (Director's Award/50) "The Graveyard of Humanity" and "Prefectural Police vs. Organized Violence"
• Fumiko Yamaji Award (6th 57)
• Kinema Junpo Award (Director's Award/57) "Kamata March"
• Mainichi Film Competition Director's Award (57) "Kamata March"
• Blue Ribbon Award (Director's Award/57) "Kamata March"
• Japan Academy Award (Director Award/Screenplay Award/10th 62) “The Fireman”
• Shozo Makino Prize (30th/63)
• Yujiro Ishihara Award (Director's Award/7th 6) "Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan"
• Osaka Film Festival Director's Award (20th 6) "Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan"
• Japan Academy Awards (Best Director, Best Picture, Best Screenplay/18th 6) "Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan"
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (9)
• Television ATP Award (14th 9) “20th Century Apocalypse: The Thing-Eating People”
• Nikkan Sports Film Awards (Director's Award/12th 11) "Toy"

Nagisa Oshima (1980-1996)

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Born in Kyoto in 7. After graduating from Kyoto University, he was invited by his theater friends to join Shochiku Ofuna Studio in 29 as an assistant director, working with director Hideo Oba and others. Aiming to become a director by creating original scripts, he published 7 scripts in his leading magazine ``Seven People'' and ``Scenario Collection'' edited by the assistant director's office. He was promoted to director in 11 with ``The City of Love and Hope'' (the script title was ``The Boy Who Sells Pigeons''). Next, he announced ``The Cruel Story of Youth'' (34st Japan Film Directors Guild Newcomer Award) and ``Graveyard of the Sun''. He is known as the standard-bearer of the Shochiku Nouvelle Vague, but left the company in 1 after the uproar in which the screening of ``Japanese Night and Fog'' was cancelled. In the same year, he established independent professional creation company. Since then, he has filmed films such as ``Raising,'' ``A Passerby in Broad Daylight,'' ``Japanese Spring Poetry,'' ``Strangulation,'' ``Boy,'' and ``Ritual.'' In 36, Sozosha was disbanded. In 48, he established Oshima Nagisa Productions. He has released collaborative films such as ``Corrida de la Love,'' ``Ghost of Love,'' ``Merry Christmas,'' and ``Max, Mon Amour.'' In February 50, he collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage, but in 8 he directed ``Gohodo''.

Awards

• Japan Film Directors Association Newcomer Award (1st 35) "A Cruel Story of Youth"
• Blue Ribbon Award (Newcomer Award/35) "A Cruel Story of Youth"
• Art Festival Award (Television Division/35) "From the Deep Depths of Youth"
• Annual Representative Scenarios (35, 42, 43) “Graveyard of the Sun” “Japanese Spring Poetry” “Death by Strangling”
• Galaxy Award (38st XNUMX) “Forgotten Imperial Army”
• Japan Film Press Association Award (Best Film Award/41) "Pursuing Demons in Broad Daylight"
• Kinema Junpo Award (Best Screenplay/Japanese Film Director Award/Best Screenplay/Reader Selection Japanese Film Award/43, 46, 58) "The Death Penalty", "Ritual", "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield"
• Mainichi Film Contest Screenplay Award/Director Award/Screenplay Award (46, 58) "Ritual" "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield"
• British Film Institute Award (51) "Corrida of Love"
• Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award (53) “Ghost of Love”
• Blue Ribbon Award (Special Award/58)
• Kawakita Prize (60)
• Hi-Vision Award Special Achievement Award (10)
• Shozo Makino Prize (11)
• Minister of Education Award for Art Encouragement (11) “Gohodo”
• St. Petersburg International Film Festival Grand Prix (12) “Gohodo”
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (12)
• Mainichi Art Award (42nd 12) “Gohodo”

Gosho Heinosuke (1964-1980)

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Born in Tokyo in 35. He was recommended by Shiro Kido of Shochiku and joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio in 12 as an assistant director. He studied under director Yasujiro Shimazu and was promoted to director with ``Spring in the South Island'' in 14. In 100, ``Madam and Wife'', the first domestically produced talkie, was released. From the silent film era until the post-war period, he worked with Shochiku, Daiei, Toho, and independent producers, and directed approximately 56 films. Representative works include ``Village Bride'', ``Izu Dancer'', ``Life's Baggage'', ``Fresh Snow'', ``Once Upon a Time'', ``The Place Where You Can See the Chimney'' (winner of the Berlin International Film Festival), ``Osaka Inn'', ``Elegy'', and ``Firefly''. Examples include ``Osorezan Onna''. He had the haiku name Goshotei and also served as an auditor of the Haiku Poetry Association. He died in 79 at the age of XNUMX.

Awards

• Mainichi Film Competition Director's Award (22) "Now and then"
• Berlin International Film Festival International Peace Prize (28) “A Place with a View of Chimneys”
• San Sebastian Film Festival Catholic Award (34) “Maria in the City of Ants”
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (41)

Yasujiro Ozu (1955-1963)

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Born in Tokyo in 36. While he was in junior high school, he became obsessed with action photography and aspired to become a film director. After working as a substitute teacher at an elementary school, he joined Shochiku Kamata Studio in 12. After working as a cinematographer and director's assistant, he was promoted to director with the historical drama ``The Sword of Confession'' in 2. In 4, he wrote ``I Graduated from University,'' and in 5, ``I Failed,'' which deals with the employment difficulties of the time and depicts the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. Afterwards, he released ``Tokyo no Chorus'' (6), ``Born Hamita But But'' (7), and the talkie ``Only Son'' (11). After serving in Singapore as a member of the military film team, after the war he teamed up with cinematographer Yuharu Atsuta and produced films such as ``Late Spring'' (24) and ``The Munakata Sisters'' (25) starring Tomoshu Kasas and Setsuko Hara. ``Mugiaki'' (26), ``The Taste of Ochazuke'' (27), ``Tokyo Story'' (28), ``Early Spring'' (31), ``Higanbana'' (33), ``Autumn Weather'' (Showa He shot masterpieces such as ``The Autumn of the Kobayakawa Family'' (35) and reigned as a master of the Japanese film industry alongside Kenji Mizoguchi. In 36, he became the first film artist to become a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. He passed away on his 37th birthday in 38, and was held a joint funeral by Shochiku and the Directors Association. His last work was ``Taste of Autumn Swordfish'' in 38.

Awards

• Mainichi Film Competition Director Award/Screenplay Award (4th 24) "Late Spring"
• Scenario Award (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 37) "Late Spring", "Munekata Sisters", "Mugiaki", " Taste of Ochazuke”, “Tokyo Story”, “Early Spring”, “Higanbana”, “Autumn Weather”
• Blue Ribbon Award Best Director (2nd 26) "Mugiaki"
• Mainichi Film Competition Japan Film Award (26) "Mugiaki"
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (33)
• Japan Art Academy Award (34)
• Minister of Education Award for Art Encouragement (36)
• Asian Film Festival Director Award (36)
• Blue Ribbon Award Japanese Film Culture Award (38)
• Mainichi Film Contest Special Award (38)
• NHK Special Award (38)

Kenji Mizoguchi (1937-1943) (1949-1955)

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Born in Tokyo in 31. He studied at the Aoibashi Western Painting Institute sponsored by Seiki Kuroda and joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Studio in 9 as an assistant director. He was promoted to director in 12 with ``The Day Resurrected by Love.'' He was only 24 years old. The film was cut by censors because its depiction of poverty was too realistic. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, he moved to Nikkatsu Taishogun Studio in Kyoto. He has been active since the silent film era, including ``Paper Doll Spring Whispers'' (15), ``Tojin Okichi'' (5), and ``Taki no Shiraito'' (8), and ``Naniwa Elegy'' and ``Sisters of Gion'' (11). He gained fame with ``Zangiku Monogatari'' (14) and ``Geido Ichidai Otoko'' (16), and produced a series of art works for Shochiku during the war. After the war, she released masterpieces such as ``Saikaku Ichidai Onna'' (27), ``Ugetsu Monogatari'', ``Gion Hayashi'' (28), ``Sansho Daifu'', and ``Chikamatsu Monogatari'' (29). He passed away in 31. He passed away at the age of 58. As a master of Japanese cinema, he was loved by many film directors such as Godard, Rivette, and Bertolucci.

Awards

• Venice International Film Festival International Award (Showa 27) “Saikaku Ichidai Onna”
• Venice International Film Festival San Marco Silver Lion Award 1st place (28) “Ugetsu Monogatari”
• 4th place, San Marco Silver Lion Award, Venice International Film Festival (29) “Yansho Taifu”
• Art Encouragement (29th XNUMX) “Chikamatsu Monogatari”
• Blue Ribbon Award (Director's Award/29th XNUMX)
• Mainichi Film Contest Special Award (11th 31)
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (30)
• Order of the Sacred Treasure, Fourth Class (31)

Minoru Murata (1936-1937)

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Born in Tokyo in 27. He graduated from the junior high school attached to Tokyo Higher Normal School, but at the age of 19, he published the theater magazine ``Toride''. In the first year of the Taisho era, he founded the theater company ``Toridesha'' and appeared on stage as an actor and director. Later, under the guidance of Kaoru Koyamauchi, he organized the theater troupe ``Todojisha'' and became active as an actor, but in 9, he joined the Shochiku Kamata Studio under Kaoru Koyamauchi, and his first work was an original work he was confident about. He completed the screenplay ``Rose of Service'' and began his career as a film director. In 1, he moved to the Film Institute, where he directed and acted in ``Spirits on the Street.'' He later joined Nikkatsu after working for Kokukatsu and became chief director of the modern drama department. In 10, he left Nikkatsu and moved to Shinko Kinema. During that time, he co-edited ``Movie Science Research'' with Ushihara Ushihiko. In 7, he had to abandon filming ``Shingetsho'' due to illness. He passed away in 11 at the young age of 12, and the first Japanese Film Directors Association funeral was held. Other works include ``The Town Magician'' and ``The Foghorn.''

Awards

• Asahi Shimbun Best Film (Taisho 14) “Town Magician”
• "1nd place in the 5st Japan Excellent Film Director Poll" (Eiga Orai/XNUMX)