The is a Japanese theater award given by the publisher Hakusuisha in honor of the playwright

Kunio Kishida Kunio Kishida (岸田國士, Kishida Kunio, 2 November 1890 – 5 March 1954) was a Japanese playwright, dramatist, novelist, lecturer, acting coach, theatre critic, translator, and proponent of Shingeki ("New Theatre"/”New Drama"). Kishida sp ...

. It was begun in 1955 to honor new playwrights, and is known in Japan as the gateway to recognition for contemporary playwrights.

List of winners

1955–1960

* 1955 - Not awarded **Honorable mention: Seiichi Yashiro * 1956 - Kiichi Ohashi for and Kinji Obata for * 1957 - Not awarded **Honorable mention: * 1958 - Hotta Hotta Kiyomi for * 1959 - Not awarded **Honorable mention:

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and of Gen'ichi Hara and Masayuki Hiroda * 1960 - Masaru Kobayashi for and Hisako Hayasaka for

1961–1970

* 1961 - Not awarded * 1962 - Ken Miyamoto for and Shuichiro Yagi for (''The Beggar Docks and Six Sons'') and (''The Conveyor Belt That Never Stops'') * 1963 - Masakazu Yamazaki for * 1964 - Hitomi Kakuhiko for and Ryuichi Suga for and

for * 1965 - Not awarded * 1966 - Koji Kawamata for and Masayuki Hirota for * 1968 -

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for and * 1969 - Satoshi Akihama for ua * 1970 - Juro Kara for

1971–1980

* 1971 - Makoto Sato for * 1972 - Hisashi Inoue to * 1974 -

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for and Kunio Shimizu for * 1975 - Not awarded **Honorable mention: Tomiko Ishizawa * 1976 - Tomiko Ishizawa for * 1977 - Not awarded * 1978 - Shōgo Oda and Seishin Chinen for * 1979 - Kodai Okabe for * 1980 - Ren Saitō for

1981–1990

* 1981 - Jūichirō Takeuchi for * 1982 - Tetsu Yamazaki for and * 1983 -

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for and Kiyokazu Yamamoto for and Eri Watanabe for * 1984 - Sō Kitamura for * 1985 - Rio Kishida for * 1986 - Takeshi Kawamura for * 1987 - Not awarded * 1988 - Yasuhiko Ohashi for * 1989 - Riyo Iwamatsu for * 1990 - Not awarded

1991–2000

* 1991 - Yōji Sakate for * 1992 - Kensuke Yokouchi for * 1993 - Akio Miyazawa for and Miri Yū for * 1994 - Yoshinobu Tei for * 1995 - Shoji Kokami for and Orisa Horisa for * 1996 - Toshirō Suzue for and Masataka Matsuda for * 1997 - Suzuki Matsuo for * 1998 - Fukatsu Shigefumi for * 1999 - Keralino Sandorovich (KERA) for * 2000 -

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for

2001–2010

* 2001 -

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for * 2002 - Not awarded * 2003 -

Kazuki Nakashima is a Japanese playwright, novelist, contributing editor and screenwriter. In addition to working on '' Getter Robo'', he is a fan of Ken Ishikawa. He took pride in being a "Getter Person". This was the same Futabasha's chief producer and pro ...

for * 2004 - Yutaka Kuramochi for * 2005 -

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for and

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for Five Days in March ( * 2006 - Norohiko Tsukuda for and Daisuke Miuara for * 2007 - Not awarded * 2008 - Shirō Maeda for * 2009 - Ryuta Horai for and Yukiko Motoya for * 2010 - Yukio Shiba for

2010s

* 2011 - Shū Matsui for * 2012 - Seiji Nozoe for and Fujita Takahiro for and Mikuni Yanaihana for * 2013 - Masaaki Akahori for and Hideto Iwai for * 2014 - Ameya Norimizu for ''Blue Sheet'' () * 2015 - Kenji Yamauchi for ''Troisgros'' (トロワグロ) * 2016 - Kuro Tanino for ''The Dark Inn'' (地獄谷温泉無明ノ宿) * 2017 - Makoto Ueda for This New World that Had to Come (来てけつかるべき新世界) * 2018 - Kamisato Yūdai for Valparaiso no nagai saka o kudaru hanashi (バルパライソの長い坂をくだる話) and Fukuhara Mitsunori for Atarashii explosion (あたらしいエクスプロージョン) * 2019 - Shuntaro Matsubara for "Yamayama" (I Would Prefer Not To) * 2020 - Satoko Ichihara for "The Bacchae – Holstein Milk Cows"; and Kenichi Tani for "Fukushima Trilogy"

References

External links

* http://www.hakusuisha.co.jp/kishida/list.php {{in lang, ja Japanese awards Japanese theatre awards