is a Japanese

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and

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, known for her brightly colored

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s of flowers, goldfish, and landscapes.

Biography

Daughter of acclaimed theatre director

Yukio Ninagawa was a Japanese theatre director, actor and film director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed eight distinct renditions of ''Hamlet.'' Ninagawa was also emeritus of the ...

, she first came to prominence in the late 1990s as part of Japan's 'Girly Photo' movement (in which amateurs took photos of daily objects). Her work was first exhibited outside Japan in 1997 at the Parisian concept store

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, and in 2001 she received the 26th

Kimura Ihei Award The is a Japanese photography award. The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the magazine ''Asahi Camera'', in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura. It is give ...

(Japan's most prestigious photography award).Mika Ninagawa: In Conversation
/ref> In 2014, she was appointed as an executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2020. Mika Ninagawa: Self-image
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Work

Ninagawa has enjoyed significant commercial success in

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and

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. She made her debut as a full-length film director in 2007 with ''

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''. In September 2010, her

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for the

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song "

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" was released. She directed the

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film adaptation of the

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'' Helter Skelter'' in 2012. In 2020, her web series directorial debut was with Netflix's '' Followers''.

Awards

*1996: Grand Prize, 9th Shashin Hitotsubo Ten *1996: New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award, Canon New Cosmos of Photography
/ref> *1998: Photo Encouragement Award, Konica Photoguide.jp
/ref> *2001: The 26th

, Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co. Asahi.com (archived)
/ref> *2006:

Ohara Museum of Art The in Kurashiki was the first collection of Western art to be permanently exhibited in Japan. The museum opened in 1930 and originally consisted almost entirely of French paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection h ...

Prize *2012:

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Award 2012

Photography

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's ''"Aitai"'' album cover and artist photo (2013)

Exhibitions

*Into Fiction/Reality, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan, Apr 13 - May 26, 2019Tomio Koyama Gallery
/ref> *Taichung World Flora Exposition, Taichung, Taiwan, Nov 03, 2018 - Apr 24, 2019businessinsider.com
/ref> *Hotel Anteroom Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, Jul 14, 2016 - Present
/ref> *Mika Ninagawa: Self-image, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Jan 24 – May 10, 2015Hara Museum of Art
/ref> *Mika's daydreaming theater # Parco Factory, Shibuya Tokyo, Japan, March 20, 2008 - April 7, 2008 # Sapporo Parco, Sapporo, Japan, April 25, 2008 - May 11, 2008 # Nagoya Parco, Nagoya, Japan, May 17, 2008 - June 2, 2008 # Sendai Parco, Sendai, Japan, August 21, 2008 - September 15, 2008

Filmography

Movies

*''

'' (2007) *'' Helter Skelter'' (2012) *''

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'' (2019) *'' Ningen Shikkaku'' (2019) * '' xxxHolic'' (2022)

TV and Web TV Series

*'' Followers (2020,

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Music videos

Books

*''ピンク・ローズ・スウィート : 蜷川実花写真集. Pink Rose Suite.'' Tokyo, Japan: Editions Treville, 2001. . *''A Piece of Heaven.'' Tokyo, Japan: Editions Treville, 2002. . Color photographs. *''Liquid Dreams.'' Tokyo, Japan: Editions Treville, 2003. . Color photographs. *''On Happiness - Contemporary Japanese Photography.'' with Midori Mitamura and Toshihiro Komatsu, eds. Tokyo, Japan: Editions Treville, 2003. . Color Photographs. *''Acid Bloom.'' Portland, Ore.:

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, 2004. . Color photographs. *''Floating Yesterday.'' Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha, 2005. . Color photographs. *''Mika's daydreaming theater'' Tokyo, Japan: Shueisha, 2008 . Color Photographs. *''Ninagawa Baroque.'' Tokyo, Japan: Artbeat Publishers, 2010. . *''Mika Ninagawa.'' New York : Rizzoli, 2010. . Color Photographs

Other projects

Ninagawa was involved in the interior design of the Bar & Cafè on the Bund cafe and bar in Shanghai, China. Ninagawa was involved in designing the external livery of a new '' Genbi Shinkansen'' excursion train scheduled to be operated in Japan by

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from spring 2016. She appears alongside fellow Movie director Yūichi Fukuda, in a scene as a couple, in TV Tokyo's 2019 special 2-day drama starring

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and

Tsuyoshi Muro is a Japanese actor who appears on stage and screen. He debuted as an actor in 1999 and has appeared in the "Bayside Shakedown" series, NHK's '' Gochisosan'', and '' Yūsha Yoshihiko''. Filmography Film * '' Hentai Kamen'' (2013) * '' Jossy's'' ...

, "Futatsu no Sokoku" (Two homelands).

References

*Yamauchi Hiroyasu ( "Hiroyasu Yamauchi"), "Mika Ninagawa", in

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, ed., ''Nihon no shashinka 101'' (, 101 Japanese photographers). Tokyo: Shinshokan, 2008. . P.202.

External links

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Official blog
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