Ryūji Miyajima

is a Japanese film editor who has received six Japanese Academy Awards, three for films directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

Life and career Mutajima was born on July 13, 1967, followed by Masato Hara's 20th Century Nostalgia (1997), and Katsuo Naruse's Immoral Affairs (1997). Thereafter, he worked on a wide range of obscure films from various directors and studios, including Akiyoshi Imazeki's Seventeen and Yuji Nakae's Hotel Hibiscus (both 2002), as well as Shinobu Yaguchi's Swing Girls (2004), and Nobuhiro Yamashita's Linda Linda Linda (2005). He began working with filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki on his breakthrough film Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005), as well as its sequel Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007), before working with Yamazaki's future wife Shimako Satō on her film K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008). Miyajima then went on to collaborate with Yamazaki on almost all of his films thereafter, including Ballad (2009), Space Battleship Yamato (2010), The Great War of Archimedes (2019), and Godzilla Minus One (2023).

Filmography

Editor

Romance (1996)