Tetsuya Nakashima (中島哲也) (born 1959) is a Japanese
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
and
screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
.
He was born in
Fukuoka
is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancient times. ...
, attending high school in
Chikushino. His 2010 film ''
Confessions'' was awarded
Best Picture at the
Japanese Academy Awards, where Nakashima was also awarded Director of the Year and Screenplay of the Year. At the
Asian Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Film and Best Director, among other categories. ''Confessions'' was also selected as the Japanese entry for
Best Foreign Language Film at the
83rd Academy Awards and made the final shortlist in January 2011.
Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the
2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film ''
Kamikaze Girls'', which also won Best Film. For ''Kamikaze Girls'', he also won Best Film and Best Director at the
14th Japan Film Professional Awards. His 2006 film ''
Memories of Matsuko'' received 14 nominations at the
30th Japanese Academy Awards, including Picture of the Year and Director of the Year. In 2014, he was nominated for the Audience Choice Award at the
Chicago International Film Festival, for his film ''
The World of Kanako.''
He was originally slated to direct an adaptation of the hit
manga
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''
Attack on Titan
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to a ...
'', but in December 2012 he left the project due to differences with the rest of the production team.
Filmography
* ''
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad'' (1988) (segment 2)
* ''Happy-Go-Lucky'' (1997)
* ''Beautiful Sunday'' (1998)
* ''
Kamikaze Girls'' (2004)
* ''Rolling Bomber Special'' (2005)
* ''
Memories of Matsuko'' (2006)
* ''
Paco and the Magical Picture Book'' (2008)
* ''
Confessions'' (2010)
* ''
The World of Kanako'' (2014)
* ''
It Comes'' (2018)
* ''The Brightest Sun'' (2026)
References
External links
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1959 births
Living people
Japanese film directors
People from Fukuoka Prefecture