International Drama Festival in Tokyo

International Drama Festival in Tokyo
DateOctober
VenueTokyo
CountryJapan
First awarded2008
Websitej-ba.or.jp

The International Drama Festival in Tokyo (国際ドラマフェスティバル in TOKYO), is an annual award show for excellence in television drama production based in Tokyo, Japan. It is organized by the International Drama Festival in Tokyo Executive Committee and co-organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and held every October. The award is called the "Tokyo Drama Award".

Categories

Current Categories

  • Series Drama
    • The Grand Prix
    • Excellent Award
  • Single Drama
    • The Grand Prix
    • Excellent Award
  • Local Drama award
  • Personal Prize
    • Best Performance by an Actor
    • Best Performance by an Actress
    • Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
    • Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
    • Best Screenplay
    • Best Director
    • Theme Song Award
  • Special Award for Foreign Drama

Award winners

Domestic dramas (series drama)

The grand prix and acting awards

No. Year The Grand Prix Excellent Award Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Ref.
1 2008 Pandora Kōichi Satō
(Kaze no Hate) 		Juri Ueno
(Last Friends) 		Masato Sakai
(Atsuhime) 		Emi Wakui
(Chiritotechin) 		[1]
2 2009 Love and Forgiveness Rookies
Garden of Breeze
Ordinary Miracles
The Flying Tire 		Kiichi Nakai
(Garden of Breeze) 		Yūki Amami
(Boss) 		Kenichi Endō
(Kiri no Hi) 		Erika Toda
(Ties of Shooting Stars) 		[2]
Best New Actor: Junpei Mizobata / Best New Actress: Umika Kawashima
3 2010 Jin (Season 1) Mother
Class Reunion: Love Again Syndrome
Care Worker Gang
Ryōmaden 		Takao Osawa
(Jin) 		Yasuko Matsuyuki
(Mother) 		Teruyuki Kagawa
(Ryōmaden) 		Machiko Ono
(Mother and Hi no Sakana) 		[3]
4 2011 Job Hopper Buy a House Second Virgin
Q10
Jin (Season 2)
Love Strikes!: The Series 		Kazunari Ninomiya
(Freeter, Ie wo Kau) 		Kyōka Suzuki
(Second Virgin),
Mana Ashida
(The Tradition of Malmo) 		Masaaki Uchino
(Jin) 		Hikari Mitsushima
(Moteki) 		[4]
5 2012 I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper Carnation
Humanoid Monster Bem
Legal High
Still, Life Goes On
Penance 		Masato Sakai
(Legal High) 		Machiko Ono
(Carnation) 		Hiroki Hasegawa
(I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper) 		Anne Watanabe
(Humanoid Monster Bem) 		[5]
6 2013 Amachan Carry On! Hara-chan!
Doctor X
Tonbi
Solitary Gourmet (Season 2)
Galileo 		Eita
(Matrimonial Chaos) 		Rena Nōnen
(Amachan) 		Gō Ayano
(Matrimonial Chaos) 		Kyōko Koizumi
(Amachan) 		[6]
7 2014 Hanzawa Naoki Bon Appetit!
Woman: My Life for My Children
Border
Mozu
First Class 		Masato Sakai
(Hanzawa Naoki) 		Hikari Mitsushima
(Woman: My Life for My Children) 		Kōtarō Yoshida
(Hanako and Anne) 		Satomi Ishihara
(Heartbroken Chocolatier) 		[7]
8 2015 The Emperor's Cook Massan
I'm Taking the Day Off
Aoi Honō
Date 		Takeru Satoh
(The Emperor's Cook) 		Haru Kuroki
(The Emperor's Cook) 		Ryohei Suzuki
(The Emperor's Cook) 		Yō Yoshida
(Hero) 		[8]
9 2016 Here Comes Asa We're Millennials Got a Problem?
Tamiō
Downtown Rocket
Tsuribaka Nisshi
Love That Makes You Cry
Shizumanu Taiyō 		Hiroshi Abe
(Downtown Rocket) 		Haru
(Here Comes Asa) 		Dean Fujioka
(Here Comes Asa) 		Yoshino Kimura
(My Dangerous Wife) 		[9]
10 2017 The Full-Time Wife Escapist Sanada Maru
Your Home is My Business!
Quartet
The Supporting Actors
Crisis: Special Security Squad 		Masato Sakai
(Sanada Maru) 		Yui Aragaki
(The Full-Time Wife Escapist) 		Masao Kusakari
(Sanada Maru) 		Riisa Naka
(I Love You Just a Little Bit) 		[10]
11 2018 Ossan's Love Hiyokko
Overprotected Kahoko
Unnatural
The Confidence Man JP
Ishitsubute 		Kei Tanaka
(Ossan's Love) 		Satomi Ishihara
(Unnatural) 		Kōtarō Yoshida
(Ossan's Love) 		Sawako Agawa
(Rikuō) 		[11]
12 2019 Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom An Invisible Cradle
Dele
Don't Forget Me
What Did You Eat Yesterday? 		Masaki Suda
(Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom) 		Kaya Kiyohara
(An Invisible Cradle) 		Ryusei Yokohama
(A Story to Read When You First Fall in Love) 		Haru Kuroki
(Weakest Beast) 		[12]
13 2020 Idaten You Can't Expense This!
Your Turn to Kill
If Talking Paid
Nagi's Long Vacation
An Incurable Case of Love
Hospital Refomer [sic] 		Toma Ikuta
(If Talking Paid) 		Haru Kuroki
(Nagi's Long Vacation) 		Takeru Satoh
(An Incurable Case of Love) 		Sairi Ito
(You Can't Expense This!) 		[13]
14 2021 Story of My Family!!! Life's Punchline
MIU404
Hanzawa Naoki (S2)
Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange
My Dear Exes
The Grand Family 		Masataka Kubota
(Yell) 		Haruka Ayase
(Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange) 		Toshiyuki Nishida
(Story of My Family!!!) 		Noriko Eguchi
(Story of My Family!!!) 		[14]
15 2022 Dearest Come Come Everybody
Love's in Sight!
Emergency Interrogation Room (S4)
Chef Detective
Don't Call It Mystery
Hey Handsome!! 		Masaki Suda
(Don't Call It Mystery) 		Yuriko Yoshitaka
(Dearest) 		Joe Odagiri
(Come Come Everybody) 		Wakana Matsumoto
(Involvement in Family Affairs) 		[15]
16 2023 Rebooting The 13 Lords of the Shogun
On a Starry Night
Silent
Elpis
Fence 		Shun Oguri
(The 13 Lords of the Shogun) 		Haruna Kawaguchi
(Silent) 		Ren Meguro
(Silent) 		Kaho
(Silent) 		[16]
17 2024 Vivant The Great Passage
Swallows
Extremely Inappropriate!
Unmet: A Neurosurgeon's Diary 		Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
(Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court) 		Shizuka Ishibashi
(Swallows) 		Ryuya Wakaba
(Unmet: A Neurosurgeon's Diary) 		Yuki Uchida
(Swallows) 		[17]

Other categories

No. Year Award Winner(s) Ref.
1 2008 The Grand Prix (Single) Points and Lines [1]
Kids & Youth Dramas Phone Braver Seven, Last Friends
Family Drama Saitou-san
Costume Drama Atsuhime
Non-Genre Drama SP
Best Screenplay Yumiko Inoue "Pandora"
Best Directors Kan Ishibashi, Shunsaku Kawake
Special Award Tetsuya Takeda and "Kinpachi-sensei" production staff
"Points and Lines" art staff
2 2009 Best Screenplay Sou Kuramoto [2]
Best Producer Hisashi Tsugiya
Best Director Rieko Miyamoto
Special Award Ken Ogata
Art staff ("The Penetrators-Kurobe no Taiyo-")
Production staff "The Long hours Dramas (New Year's Historical Drama)"
3 2010 Best Screenplay Yuji Sakamoto "Mother" [3]
Best Director Hiroshi Kurosaki "Goldfish"
Best Producer Akihiko Ishimaru "Jin"
Special Award "Ryōmaden" filming staff
Special Award Mana Ashida "Mother"
Best Actor in Asia Lee Byung-hun
4 2011 Best Screenplay Shizuka Oishi "Second Virgin"
Best Director Seiji Izumi "AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo season 9"
Best Producer Fumi Hashimoto "JOB-HOPPER BUYS A HOUSE" "Marumo's Story"
Special Award "Jin" production staff
5 2012 Best Screenplay Kazuhiko Yukawa "I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper"
Best Directors Kiyoshi Kurosawa "Penance", Kenji Tanaka "Carnation"
Best Producer Futoshi Ohira "I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper"
Special Award Shinichi Ichikawa, "Cloud Above the Slope" production staff
6 2013 Best Screenplay Kankurō Kudō "Amachan"
Best Director Tsuyoshi Inoue "Amachan"
Best Producer Kei Kurube "Amachan"
Special Award Yoshihide Otomo "Amachan"
7 2014 Best Screenplay Yoshikazu Okada "Second to Last Love 2"
Best Director Katsuo Fukuzawa "Hanzawa Naoki"
Special Award "Is Three Fellows" Cast: Kin'ya Kitaōji, Shigeru Izumiya, Kotaro Shiga
Kitakyushu Film Commission (Co-operation on arranging locations for TV dramas, such as "Mozu")
Best Actor is Asia Kim Soo Hyon
8 2015 Best Screenplay Miho Nakazono "Hanako and Anne"
Best Producer Yasuo Yagi "Fathers"
Best Director Tetsuaki Matsue, Nobuhiro Yamashita "Takayuki Yamada's Tokyo Akabane"
Special Award Charlotte Kate Fox "Massan"
9 2016 Best Directors Yuya Ishii "Taro's Candy House", Nobuhiro Doi "Sleepeeer hit!", "Kounodori: Dr. Stork"
Theme Song Award Aoi Teshima "Asu e no Tegami" (Love That Makes You Cry)
10 2017 Best Screenplay Sou Kuramoto
Best Producer Atsushi Nasuda
Best Director Fuminori Kaneko
Theme Song Award Gen Hoshino "Koi" (The Full-Time Wife Escapist)
11 2018 Best Screenplay Akiko Nogi "Unnatural"
Best Director Ayuko Tsukahara "Unnatural"
Special Award "Unnatural" production team
Theme Song Award Kenshi Yonezu "Lemon" (Unnatural)
12 2019 Best Screenplay Naoko Adachi
Best Director Yuichi Fukuda
Theme Song Award Milet "inside you" (QUEEN)
13 2020 Best Screenplay Shigeki Kaneko
Best Director Ayuko Tsukahara
Theme Song Award Official Hige Dandism "I LOVE..." (An Incurable Case of Love)
14 2021 Best Screenplay Yuji Sakamoto
Best Director Takegoro Nishimura
Theme Song Award STUTS & Takako Matsu with 3exes "Presence" (My Dear Exes)
Special Award Sugako Hashida
15 2022 Best Screenplay Yuki Fujimoto
Best Director Ayuko Tsukahara
Theme Song Award Ai "Aldebaran" (Come Come Everybody)

Foreign dramas

Year Special Awards Ref.
2007 South Korea A Dwarf Launches a Small Ball
China New Age of Marriage
Thailand Heart of Chocolate		 [18]
2008 China Soldiers Sortie
Indonesia Searching for God
South Korea Golden Bride
Vietnam Chạy án (Buying Justice）		 [19]
2009 China Ma Wen's War
India Child Bride — Strong Relationships of Tender Age
South Korea Beethoven Virus
Malaysia The Unbreakable Bond		 [20]
2010 China A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era
India Sacred Relationship
South Korea Iris
Singapore Red Thread		 [21]
2011 China Three Kingdoms
South Korea Dream High
Thailand Wanida		 [22]
2012 Thailand Roy Mai (Silk Trace)
South Korea Deep Rooted Tree
China Naked Wedding		 [23]
2013 Indonesia The Rainbow Troops: The Series
South Korea The King's Doctor
Thailand Warlord		 [24]
2014 Indonesia Tukang Bubur Naik Haji The Series (Porridge Seller Pilgrimage)
South Korea My Love from the Star
Thailand Thong Neua Kao (Pure Gold) 		[25]
2015 Indonesia Akankah Bunda Datang Ke Pernikahanku? (Mother, Will You Come to My Wedding?)
South Korea Misaeng - Incomplete Life
Thailand Samee Teetra (The Marked Husband) 		[26]
2016 South Korea Six Flying Dragons
Thailand Sud Kaen Saen Rak
Vietnam Quyến Rũ 		[27]
2017 Thailand Nakee (Queen of Nagas)
Vietnam Chiều ngang qua phố cũ
Turkey Mother 		[28]
2018 Taiwan A Boy Named Flora A
Turkey Kadın
Vietnam Lẩn khuất một tên người (Hidden Name) 		[29]
2019 China My True Friend
Korea The Fiery Priest
Thailand Love Destiny 		[30]
2020 China Serenade of Peaceful Joy
South Korea Crash Landing on You
Thailand Krong Kam (Repercussion） 		[31]
2021 Korea Vincenzo
Taiwan The Making of an Ordinary Woman 2
Thailand 2gether: The series 		[32]
2021 Indonesia Broken Kite
Taiwan Twisted Strings
Thailand A Tale of Thousand Stars 		[33]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Tokyo Drama Awards 2008
  2. ^ a b Tokyo Drama Awards 2009
  3. ^ a b Tokyo Drama Awards 2010
  4. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2011
  5. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2012
  6. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2013
  7. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2014
  8. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2015
  9. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2016
  10. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2017
  11. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2018
  12. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2019
  13. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2020
  14. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2021
  15. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2022
  16. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2023
  17. ^ Tokyo Drama Awards 2024
  18. ^ Foreign Dramas 2007
  19. ^ Foreign Dramas 2008
  20. ^ Foreign Dramas 2009
  21. ^ Foreign Dramas 2010
  22. ^ Foreign Dramas 2011
  23. ^ Foreign Dramas 2012
  24. ^ Foreign Dramas 2013
  25. ^ "Foreign Dramas 2014". Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
  26. ^ Foreign Dramas 2015
  27. ^ Foreign Dramas 2015
  28. ^ Foreign Dramas 2017
  29. ^ "Foreign Dramas 2018". Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  30. ^ "Foreign Dramas 2019". Archived from the original on 2023-08-05. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  31. ^ "Foreign Dramas 2020". Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
  32. ^ Foreign Dramas 2021
  33. ^ "Foreign Dramas 2022". Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2014-10-23.