Japanese Academy Awards
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The , often called the Japan Academy Awards or the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Nippon Academy-shō Association for excellence in Japanese
film. Award categories are similar to the Academy Awards.
The award statue itself measures 27 cm × 11 cm × 11 cm (10.7 in × 4.4 in × 4.4 in).
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Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
film. Award categories are similar to the Academy Awards.
The award statue itself measures 27 cm × 11 cm × 11 cm (10.7 in × 4.4 in × 4.4 in).
Awards
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Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film Every year since its inception, the Japanese Academy has recognized an outstanding foreign film. The year that any given film is nominated is not based on the film's domestic release date but rather on the date it is released in Japan. As delays of over four months are not uncommon, many films are... |
Picture of the year
| Nr. | Year | Film (English) |
Film (Japanese) |
Director (English) |
Director (Japanese) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1978 | The Yellow Handkerchief The Yellow Handkerchief is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. It was the winner of the first Best Picture award at the Japan Academy Prize.-Cast:* Ken Takakura: Yusaku Shima* Chieko Baisho: Mitsue Shima* Tetsuya Takeda: Kinya Hanada* Kaori Momoi: Akemi Ogawa* Hachirō Tako... |
幸福の黄色いハンカチ | Yoji Yamada Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy .... |
山田洋次 |
| 2 | 1979 | The Incident The Incident (1978 film) is a 1978 Japanese film directed by Yoshitaro Nomura. Among many awards, it was chosen as the Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Cast:* Keiko Matsuzaka: Hatsuko Sakai* Shinobu Ootake: Yoshiko Sakai* Toshiyuki Nagashima: Hiroshi Ueda... |
事件 | Yoshitaro Nomura Yoshitaro Nomura Yoshitarō Nomura was a prolific Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first accredited film was released in 1953; his last in 1985... |
野村芳太郎 |
| 3 | 1980 | Vengeance Is Mine Vengeance is Mine (1979 film) Vengeance Is Mine is a 1979 film directed by Shohei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryuzo Saki. It depicts the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi .It stars Ken Ogata as Enokizu, with Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho, Nijiko Kiyokawa and Chocho Miyako... |
復讐するは我にあり | Shōhei Imamura Shohei Imamura was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr... |
今村昌平 |
| 4 | 1981 | Zigeunerweisen Zigeunerweisen (film) is a 1980 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on Hyakken Uchida's novel, Disk of Sarasate. It takes its title from a gramophone recording of Pablo de Sarasate's violin composition, Zigeunerweisen, which features prominently in the story... |
ツィゴイネルワイゼン | Seijun Suzuki Seijun Suzuki , born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility... |
鈴木清順 |
| 5 | 1982 | Station Station (film) is a 1981 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. Among many awards, it was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Cast:* Ken Takakura: Eiji Mikami* Chieko Baisho: Kiriko Michio* Ayumi Ishida: Naoko Mikami... |
駅 STATION | Yasuo Furuhata Yasuo Furuhata Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Poppoya.-Filmography:* Eki * Izakaya Chōji... |
降旗康男 |
| 6 | 1983 | Fall Guy Fall Guy is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, art direction by Akira Takahashi. Among many awards, it was chosen as the Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.... |
蒲田行進曲 | Kinji Fukasaku Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer... |
深作欣二 |
| 7 | 1984 | The Ballad of Narayama The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film) is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa. It is an adaptation of the book Narayama bushiko by Shichiro Fukazawa and remake of the 1958 film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.- Plot :... |
楢山節考 | Shōhei Imamura | 今村昌平 |
| 8 | 1985 | The Funeral The Funeral (1984 film) is a 1984 Japanese comedy film by director Itami Juzo.The film shows the preparations for a traditional Japanese funeral. It mixes grief at the loss of a husband and father with wry observations of the various characters as they interact during the three days of preparation.The Funeral was the... |
お葬式 | Juzo Itami Juzo Itami , born , was an actor and a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture.... |
伊丹十三 |
| 9 | 1986 | Gray Sunset Gray Sunset is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Shunya Ito. It was Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee... |
花いちもんめ | Shunya Ito Shunya Ito is a Japanese film director famed for starting the Sasori series of 1970s exploitation films based on Toru Shinohara's manga and starring Meiko Kaji. Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career... |
伊藤俊也 |
| 10 | 1987 | House on Fire House on Fire is a 1986 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Cast:*Ken Ogata as Kazuo Dan*Ayumi Ishida as Yoriko Dan*Mieko Harada as Keiko*Keiko Matsuzaka as Tokuko Tanayoshi*Chu Arai... |
火宅の人 | Kinji Fukasaku | 深作欣二 |
| 11 | 1988 | A Taxing Woman A Taxing Woman is a 1987 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami. It won numerous awards, including six major Japanese Academy awards.The title character of the film, played by Nobuko Miyamoto, is a government tax investigator who employs various techniques to catch tax evaders.The director... |
マルサの女 | Juzo Itami | 伊丹十三 |
| 12 | 1989 | The Silk Road The Silk Road aka Dun-Huang is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Junya Sato. The movie was adapted from the 1959 novel Tun-Huang by Yasushi Inoue with the backdrop of the plotline being the Mogao Caves manuscript trove... |
敦煌 | Junya Sato Junya Sato is a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Sato graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956 with a degree in French literature. He joined the Toei studio and worked as an assistant to such directors as Tadashi Imai and Miyoji Ieki. He debuted as a director in 1963 with Rikugun zangyaku... |
佐藤純彌 |
| 13 | 1990 | Black Rain Black Rain (Japanese film) is a 1989 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura and based on the novel of the same name by Ibuse Masuji. The events are centered on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.-Plot:... |
黒い雨 | Shōhei Imamura | 今村昌平 |
| 14 | 1991 | Childhood Days Childhood Days is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Synopsis:A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid... |
少年時代 | Masahiro Shinoda Masahiro Shinoda is a Japanese film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s.-Career:... |
篠田正浩 |
| 15 | 1992 | My Sons My Sons is a 1991 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Synopsis:The children of old-fashioned patriarch of a family in Iwate Province gather to observe the first anniversary of their mother's death. Tetsuya, working as a bartender in Tokyo,... |
息子 | Yoji Yamada | 山田洋次 |
| 16 | 1993 | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't Sumo Do, Sumo Don't is a 1992 Japanese film directed by Masayuki Suo. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Synopsis:In order to graduate from college in a timely manner, and to gain the job waiting for him due to his family connections, Shuhei must join the school's sumo team to please his... |
シコふんじゃった。 | Masayuki Suo Masayuki Suo is a Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.According to Suo:- Life and career :... |
周防正行 |
| 17 | 1994 | A Class to Remember A Class to Remember is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Synopsis:A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.-Cast:* Toshiyuki Nishida*... |
学校 | Yoji Yamada | 山田洋次 |
| 18 | 1995 | Crest of Betrayal Crest of Betrayal is a 1994 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.-Cast:*Kōichi Satō as Iemon Tamiya*Saki Takaoka as Oiwa*Keiko Oginome as Oume*Tsunehiko Watase as Yasubei Horibe*Eriko Watanabe as Omaki*Renji Ishibashi as Kihei Ito*Keizo Kanie as Ichigaku Shimuzu... |
忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談 | Kinji Fukasaku | 深作欣二 |
| 19 | 1996 | A Last Note A Last Note is a 1995 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Synopsis:A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home... |
午後の遺言状 | Kaneto Shindō Kaneto Shindo , Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb... |
新藤兼人 |
| 20 | 1997 | Shall We Dance? | Shall we ダンス? | Masayuki Suo | 周防正行 |
| 21 | 1998 | Princess Mononoke Princess Mononoke is a 1997 epic Japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. is not a name, but a general term in the Japanese language for a spirit or monster... |
もののけ姫 | Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,... |
宮崎駿 |
| 22 | 1999 | Begging for Love Begging for Love is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. It was Japan's submission to the 71st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee... |
愛を乞うひと | Hideyuki Hirayama Hideyuki Hirayama is a Japanese film director. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for The Games Teachers Play in 1992. He was given a Best Director award at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival... |
平山秀幸 |
| 23 | 2000 | Poppoya Poppoya is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. It was Japan's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.... |
鉄道員 | Yasuo Furuhata Yasuo Furuhata Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director. He won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Poppoya.-Filmography:* Eki * Izakaya Chōji... |
降旗康男 |
| 24 | 2001 | After the Rain | 雨あがる | Takashi Koizumi Takashi Koizumi Takashi Koizumi is a Japanese film director. He has received four nominations and four wins.-Filmography as Assistant Director:* Ran * Akira Kurosawa's Dreams... |
小泉堯史 |
| 25 | 2002 | Spirited Away Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood and after her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba,... |
千と千尋の神隠し | Hayao Miyazaki | 宮崎駿 |
| 26 | 2003 | The Twilight Samurai The Twilight Samurai The Twilight Samurai or is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai employed as a bureaucrat. Poor, but not destitute, he still manages to lead a content and... |
たそがれ清兵衛 | Yoji Yamada | 山田洋次 |
| 27 | 2004 | When the Last Sword Is Drawn When the Last Sword Is Drawn is a 2003 Japanese movie directed by Yōjirō Takita loosely based on real historical events. When the Last Sword Is Drawn won the Best Film award at the 2004 Japanese Academy Awards, as well as the prizes for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor . It received a further eight... |
壬生義士伝 | Yojiro Takita Yojiro Takita Yōjirō Takita , is a Japanese filmmaker.-Career:Yōjirō Takita entered the film industry throughMukai Productions, where he served as an assistant director... |
滝田洋二郎 |
| 28 | 2005 | Half a Confession Half a Confession is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Cast:* Akira Terao: Soichiro Kaji* Mieko Harada: Keiko Kaji* Hidetaka Yoshioka* Mayu Tsuruta* Kyohei Shibata* Kirin Kiki: Yasuko Shimamura... |
半落ち | Kiyoshi Sasabe | 佐々部清 |
| 29 | 2006 | Always Sanchōme no Yūhi Always Sanchome no Yuhi is a 2005 film co-written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, based on Ryōhei Saigan's long-running manga Sanchōme no Yūhi. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Plot summary:... |
ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日 | Takashi Yamazaki Takashi Yamazaki (film director) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and visual effects director. He won the Best Director and Best Screenplay prizes at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2006 for Always Sanchōme no Yūhi... |
山崎貴 |
| 30 | 2007 | Hula Girls Hula Girls is an award-winning Japanese film, directed by Sang-il Lee and co-written by Lee and Daisuke Habara, and first released across Japanese theaters on September 23, 2006... |
フラガール | Sang-il Lee Sang-il Lee Lee Sang-il is a Zainichi Korean film director and screenwriter. His first film Chong was a short film about the lives of third generation Koreans living in Japan.... |
李相日 |
| 31 | 2008 | Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad | 東京タワー 〜オカンとボクと、時々、オトン〜 | Jōji Matsuoka Joji Matsuoka is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short Inaka no hōsoku at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, Bataashi kingyo, in 1990 and received a number of awards for best... |
松岡錠司 |
| 32 | 2009 | Departures Departures (film) All compositions by Joe Hisaishi.#"Shine of Snow I" 1:12#"Nohkan" 3:10#"Kaisan" 0:53#"Good-Bye Cello" 2:16#"New Road" 1:15#"Model" 0:47#"First Contact" 1:51#"Washing" 0:34#"Kizuna I" 1:57#"Beautiful Dead I" 3:12#"Okuribito " 1:51... |
おくりびと | Yojiro Takita Yojiro Takita Yōjirō Takita , is a Japanese filmmaker.-Career:Yōjirō Takita entered the film industry throughMukai Productions, where he served as an assistant director... |
滝田洋二郎 |
| 33 | 2010 | The Unbroken Shizumanu Taiyō is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu. It is also known as The Unbroken in the United States.Shizumanu Taiyō is based on a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. Set in the 1960s, the story centers on Hajime Onchi, the chairman of the employees' union for a large national airline corporation... |
沈まぬ太陽 | Setsuro Wakamatsu | 若松節朗 |
| 34 | 2011 | Confessions Confessions (film) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima.-Plot:Yuko Moriguchi , a junior high teacher, announces she will resign. She reveals that her daughter, Manami, was killed by two pupils in her class, whom she dubs "Student A" and "Student B"... |
告白 | Tetsuya Nakashima Tetsuya Nakashima Tetsuya Nakashima is a Japanese film director. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls.... |
中島哲也 |