# International Drama Festival in Tokyo

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 |
| 1 | 2008 | Pandora | | Kōichi Satō (Kaze no Hate) | Juri Ueno (Last Friends) | Masato Sakai (Atsuhime) | Emi Wakui (Chiritotechin) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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!) |
| 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!!!) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |

#### Other categories

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

### Foreign dramas

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