Awards
- 1961 Grand Prize at the Moscow Film Festival for The Naked Island.
- 1964 Grand Prix at the Panama Film Festival for Onibaba.
- 1996 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for A Last Note
- 1998 Person of Cultural Merit.
- 2002 Order of Culture.
- 2003 Japan Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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