Ryūji Miyajima (宮島 竜治, Miyajima Ryūji, born July 13, 1967)[1] is a Japanese film editor who has received six Japanese Academy Awards, three for films directed by Takashi Yamazaki.
Mutajima was born on July 13, 1967,[1] in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
[citation needed] He began his long career in the Japanese film industry as a film editor on Shunichi Nagasaki's Romance (1996),[2] followed by Masato Hara's 20th Century Nostalgia (1997),[3] and Katsuo Naruse's Immoral Affairs (1997).
[8] He began working with filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki on his breakthrough film Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005),[9] as well as its sequel Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007),[10] before working with Yamazaki's future wife Shimako Satō on her film K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008).
[11] Miyajima then went on to collaborate with Yamazaki on almost all of his films thereafter, including Ballad (2009),[12] Space Battleship Yamato (2010),[12] The Eternal Zero (2013),[13] The Great War of Archimedes (2019),[14] and Godzilla Minus One (2023).