Ryūji Miyajima (宮島 竜治, Miyajima Ryūji, born July 13, 1967)^[1] is a Japanese film editor who has received six Japanese Academy Awards, three for films directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

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Mutajima was born on July 13, 1967,^[1] in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.^{[citation needed]} He began his long career in the Japanese film industry as a film editor on Shunichi Nagasaki's Romance (1996),^[2] followed by Masato Hara's 20th Century Nostalgia (1997),^[3] and Katsuo Naruse's Immoral Affairs (1997).^[4] Thereafter, he worked on a wide range of obscure films from various directors and studios, including Akiyoshi Imazeki's Seventeen,^[5] Yuji Nakae's Hotel Hibiscus (both 2002),^[6] and Shinobu Yaguchi's Swing Girls (2004),^[7] and Nobuhiro Yamashita's Linda Linda Linda (2005).^[8] He began working with filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki on his breakthrough film Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005),^[9] as well as its sequel Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007),^[10] before working with Yamazaki's future wife Shimako Satō on her film K-20: Legend of the Mask (2008).^[11] Miyajima then went on to collaborate with Yamazaki on almost all of his films thereafter, including Ballad (2009),^[12] Space Battleship Yamato (2010),^[12] The Eternal Zero (2013),^[13] The Great War of Archimedes (2019),^[14] and Godzilla Minus One (2023).^[15]