Miwa Nishikawa
| Miwa Nishikawa | |
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| Born |
July 8, 1974 Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan |
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Film director Screenwriter |
Miwa Nishikawa (西川美和 Nishikawa Miwa?, born July 8, 1974 in Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima) is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Nishikawa has received a degree in literature at the University of Waseda. After working on several independent films as well as catching the eye of Hirokazu Kore’eda, her film making career set off with her first film, Wild Berries, winning the award for best screenplay at the Mainichi Film Award. In addition to her film making career, Nishikawa has also written a book titled The Long Excuse.
Nishikawa began her film career as a college student working as a staff member on Hirokazu Koreeda's 1998 film After Life. Soon afterward she was an assistant director for Yoshimitsu Morita on his 1999 thriller The Black House (黒い家 Kuroi ie?). She once again worked for Koreeda as an assistant director on his 2001 movie Distance, and when Nishikawa went on to write and direct her first feature film, the September 2003 release, Wild Berries, Koreeda was the producer. The film won the Best New Director award at the 2004 Yokohama Film Festival, the Best New Director prize at the 13th Japanese Professional Movie Awards and the Best Screenplay Award and one of the Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Awards at the 58th Mainichi Film Concours for 2003.
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