New Directors Award
1960 OSHIMA Nagisa for "Cruel Story of Youth"
1961 HANI Susumu for "Furyo Shonen"
1962 URAYAMA Kirio for "Cupola,Where The Furnaces Glow"
1963 None
1964 None
1965 Kei KUMAI for "The Japanese Archipelago"
1966 NAKAJIMA Sadao for "893(Yakuza)Gurentai"
1967 FUJITA Toshiya for "Classroom Renegades"
1968 None
1969 (Citation) DEME Masanobu for "Oretachi no Koya"
1970 OGAWA Shinsuke for "Summer in Narita"
1971 HIGASHI Yoichi for "Yasashii Nipponjin"
1972 (Citation) ITO Shunya for "Sasori-The Scorpion"
1973 (Citation) TANAKA Noboru for "The Ill-Fated Courtesan"
1974 None
1975 None
1976 (Citation) KOYAMA Seijiro for "Two Harmonicas(A Story of a Soldier and a Boy)"
1977 HASHIURA Hojin for "Hoshizora no Marionette"
1978 None
1979 GAGNON Claude for "Keiko"
1980 (Citation) OGURI Kohei for "Muddy River"
1981 (Citation) IZUTSU Kazuyuki for "The Rascal`s Emperor"
1982 None
1983 MORITA Yoshimitsu for "The Family Game"
1984 None
1985 SAWAI Shinichiro for "Soshun Monogatari"
1986 HARA Kazuo for "The Emperor`s Naked Army Marches On"
1987 YAMAMOTO Masashi for "The Robinson`s Garden"
1988 KIM Uson for "Yun's Town"
1989 SAKAMOTO Jyuji for "Knock Out"
TAKAMINE Tsuyoshi for "Untamagiru"
1990 (Citation) KITANO Takeshi for "Boiling Point"
(Citation) WATANABE Fumiyuki for "Shimaguni Konjyo"
1991 SUO Masayuki for "Sumo do ,Sumo don`t"
1992 HIRAYAMA Hideyuki for "The Chugaku Kyoshi"
MAKIYA Tsutomu / NAKAE Yuji / TOMA Hayshi for "The Pineapple Tours"
1993 IWAI Shunji for "Fireworks,Should We See IT From The Side or the Bottom?"
TERADA Yasunori for "My Wife is a Philipina"
1994 FURUSAWA Tomoyuki for "This Window is Yours"
1995 RIJYU Go for "BeRLiN"
1996 INUDO Isshin for "The Two People Talking"
1997 HARA Masato for "Twentieth Century Nostalgia"
1998 TOYADA Toshiaki for "The Pornostar"
1999 SHIOTA Akihiko for "Don`t Look Back"and "Moonlight Whispers"
2000 OGATA Akira for "Boy`s Choir"
2001 ISHIOKA Masato for "Scout-Man"(aka. "Pain")
2002 KIM Sujin for "Through the Night"
2003 SASABE Kiyoshi for "Chirusoku no Natsu"
2004 IGUCHI Nami for "Dogs & Cats"
2005 TAKAHASHI Izumi for "The Soup, One Morning"
2006 KOBAYASHI Shotaro for "Kazoku no Hiketsu"
2007 YOKOHAMA Satoko for "German + Rain"
2008 TANADA Yuki for "ONE MILLION ¥EN GIRL"
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