# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/miwa-nishikawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:26:48.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/miwa-nishikawa"
name: "Miwa Nishikawa"
slug: "miwa-nishikawa"
description: "Miwa Nishikawa  is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Nishikawa received a degree in literature from the University of Waseda, and after working on several independent films as well as catching the eye of Hirokazu Kore-eda, her film making career took off with her first film, Wild Berries, which won the award for best screenplay at the Mainichi Film Award. In addition to her film making career, Nishikawa has also written a book titled The Long Excuse."
tagline: "Japanese film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nxnP85FMB1EGIpVMy8TRzMqOD9Y.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1974-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.37
  momentum:             1.134453781512605
  historical:           7.38234
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114829/"
    handle:    "nm1114829"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D%E7%BE%8E%E5%92%8C"
    title: "西川美和"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ميوا نيشيكاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miwa_Nishikawa"
    title: "Miwa Nishikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "نیشیکاوا میوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miwa_Nishikawa"
    title: "Miwa Nishikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D%E7%BE%8E%E5%92%8C"
    title: "西川美和"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%8B%9C%EC%B9%B4%EC%99%80_%EB%AF%B8%EC%99%80"
    title: "니시카와 미와"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1280521"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133914"
    title: "Miwa Nishikawa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump