Asian Film Award for Best Director

Asian Film Award for Best Director
The 2025 recipient: Daihachi Yoshida
Awarded forExcellence in Directing in Asian Cinema
Presented byAsian Film Awards Academy
First award2007
Most recent winnerDaihachi Yoshida
Teki Cometh (2025)
Websiteafa-academy.com

The Asian Film Award for Best Director is presented annually by the Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA), a non-profit organization founded by Busan International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Tokyo International Film Festival with the shared goal of celebrating excellence in Asian cinema.

History

It was first presented in 2007 during the first edition of the awards. Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke was the first recipient of the award for his work in the drama Still Life. The most recent winner is Japanese director Daihachi Yoshida for the film Teki Cometh.

Japanese film director Hirokazu Kore-eda and South Korean director Lee Chang-dong both hold the record of most wins in the category with three; Kore-eda for Still Walking (2009), Broker (2023) and Monster (2024); Lee for Secret Sunshine (2008), Poetry (2011) and Burning (2019). They are also the only directors with multiple wins in the category. Hirokazu Koreeda is also the director with the most nominations for the award with six.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year Recipient(s) English title Original title Ref.
2007 Jia Zhangke Still Life 三峡好人 [1]
[2]
Hong Sang-soo Woman on the Beach 해변의 여인
Jafar Panahi Offside آفساید
Johnnie To Exiled 放逐
Tsai Ming-liang I Don't Want to Sleep Alone 黑眼圈
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Syndromes and a Century อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล
2008 Lee Chang-dong Secret Sunshine 밀양 [3]
[4]
Peter Chan The Warlords 投名状
Jiang Wen The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起
Ang Lee Lust, Caution 投名状
Masayuki Suo I Just Didn't Do It それでもボクはやってない
Zhang Lu Desert Dream 경계
2009 Hirokazu Kore-eda Still Walking 歩いても 歩いても [5]
[6]
Feng Xiaogang If You Are the One 非诚勿扰
Kim Jee-woon The Good, the Bad, the Weird 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈
Brillante Mendoza Service Serbis
Hayao Miyazaki Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea 崖の上のポニョ
John Woo Red Cliff 赤壁

2010s

Year Recipient(s) English title Original title Ref.
2010 Lu Chuan City of Life and Death 南京! 南京! [7]
[8]
Bong Joon-ho Mother 마더
Asghar Farhadi About Elly درباره الی, Darbareye Elly
Brillante Mendoza Grandmother Lola
Sion Sono Love Exposure 愛のむきだし
Yonfan Prince of Tears 淚王子
2011 Lee Chang-dong Poetry 시 [9]
[10]
Feng Xiaogang Aftershock 唐山大地震
Jiang Wen Let the Bullets Fly 让子弹飞
Takashi Miike 13 Assassins 十三人の刺客
Na Hong-jin The Yellow Sea 황해
Tetsuya Nakashima Confessions 告白
2012 Asghar Farhadi A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین, Jodái-e Náder az Simin [11]
[12]
Teddy Soeriaatmadja Lovely Man
Sion Sono Guilty of Romance 恋の罪
Tsui Hark Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 龍門飛甲
Wei Te-sheng Seediq Bale 賽德克·巴萊
Zhang Yimou The Flowers of War 金陵十三钗
2013 Takeshi Kitano Outrage Beyond アウトレイジ ビヨンド [13]
Anurag Kashyap Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 & 2
Abbas Kiarostami Like Someone in Love ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ
Kim Ki-duk Pietà 피에타
Lou Ye Mystery 浮城谜事
2014 Wong Kar-wai The Grandmaster 一代宗師 [14]
Bong Joon-ho Snowpiercer 설국열차
Anthony Chen Ilo Ilo 爸妈不在家
Hirokazu Kore-eda Like Father, Like Son そして父になる, Soshite Chichi ni Naru
Tsai Ming-liang Stray Dogs Jiao You
2015 Ann Hui The Golden Era 黃金時代 [15]
Vishal Bhardwaj Haider
Lav Diaz From What Is Before Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon
Hong Sang-soo Hill of Freedom 자유의 언덕
Lou Ye Blind Massage 推拿
Shinya Tsukamoto Fires on the Plain Nobi
2016 Hou Hsiao-hsien The Assassin 刺客聶隱娘 [16]
[17]
Guan Hu Mr. Six 老炮兒
Jia Zhangke Mountains May Depart 山河故人
Hirokazu Kore-eda Our Little Sister 海街diary
Ryoo Seung-wan Veteran 베테랑
2017 Na Hong-jin The Wailing 곡성 [18]
[19]
Lav Diaz The Woman Who Left Ang Babaeng Humayo
Feng Xiaogang I Am Not Madame Bovary 我不是潘金莲
Kōji Fukada Harmonium 淵に立つ
Derek Tsang Soul Mate 七月與安生
2018 Yuya Ishii The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue 映画 夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ [20]
[21]
Sylvia Chang Love Education 相愛相親
Chen Kaige Legend of the Demon Cat 妖猫传
Feng Xiaogang Youth 芳华
Hong Sang-soo The Day After 그 후
Ann Hui Our Time Will Come 明月幾時有
2019 Lee Chang-dong Burning 버닝 [22]
[23]
Pema Tseden Jinpa 撞死了一只羊
Rajkumar Hirani Sanju
Hirokazu Kore-eda Shoplifters 万引き家族
Fruit Chan Three Husbands 三夫

2020s

Year Recipient(s) English title Original title Ref.
2020 Wang Xiaoshuai So Long, My Son 地久天长 [24]
[25]
Pema Tseden Balloon དབུགས་ལྒང་། (Tibetan); 气球 (Simplified Chinese)
Tsai Ming-liang Days 日子
Bong Joon-ho Parasite 기생충
Chung Mong-hong A Sun 陽光普照
Nobuhiro Suwa Voices in the Wind 風の電話
2021 Zhang Yimou One Second 一秒钟 [26]
[27]
Adhilkan Yerzhanov Yellow Cat
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Wife of a Spy スパイの妻
Ryusuke Hamaguchi Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 偶然と想像
Lee Joon-ik The Book of Fish 자산어보
2023 Hirokazu Kore-eda Broker 브로커 [28]
[29]
Park Chan-wook Decision to Leave 헤어질 결심
Ryusuke Hamaguchi Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー
Davy Chou Return to Seoul Retour à Séoul
Darezhan Omirbaev Poet Akyn
2024 Hirokazu Kore-eda Monster 怪物 [30]
Gu Xiaogang Dwelling by the West Lake 草木人間
Ryusuke Hamaguchi Evil Does Not Exist 悪は存在しない
Kim Sung-su 12.12: The Day 서울의 봄
Prasanna Vithanage Paradise
2025 Daihachi Yoshida Teki Cometh 敵 [31]
Payal Kapadia All We Imagine as Light
Jang Jae-hyun Exhuma 파묘
Guan Hu Black Dog 狗阵
Rithy Panh Meeting with Pol Pot Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot

See also

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