The is a noticed yearly awards ceremony held in Japan. The festival was started as a small affair by fans and film critics, and first held on February 3, 1980. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year, and various awards are given to personnel. The following is a listing of the winners of the major awards.

1980

• Held on 3 February 1980 in Keihin Film Theatre, Tsurumi, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko
  Taiyo o Nusunda Otoko
  Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko , also known as The Man Who Stole the Sun, is a 1979 satirical film from Japan, directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko and written by Leonard Schrader.-Plot:...
  
  
• Best New Actor: Yuji Honma – Jūkyūsai no Chizu
  Jūkyūsai no Chizu
  is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi.-Awards:1st Yokohama Film Festival*Best Supporting Actor - Keizō Kanie*Best New Director - Mitsuo Yanagimachi*Best Newcomer - Yūji Honma*7th Best Film...
  
  
• Best Actor: Ken Ogata
  Ken Ogata
  Ken Ogata was a Japanese actor.Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Best Actress: Yūki Mizuhara
  Yūki Mizuhara
  is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for the Nikkatsu Roman Porno film Angel Guts: Red Classroom...
  
   – Angel Guts: Red Classroom
  Angel Guts: Red Classroom
  is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Chūsei Sone and released by the Nikkatsu studio as part of their Roman porno line. It is the second in the Angel Guts film series, based on a manga by Takashi Ishii.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Best New Actress: Miyuki Matsuda
  Miyuki Matsuda
  is a Japanese actress and the widow of Yusaku Matsuda.She starred as Ryo Ishibashi's dead wife and the sister of Mami Kumagai in the movie Audition...
  
   – Kindaichi Kosuke no boken
• Best Supporting Actor: Keizō Kanie
  Keizō Kanie
  is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for Angel Guts: Red Classroom and Jūkyūsai no Chizu and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Ware ni utsu yoi ari and Boku to, bokura no natsu....
  
   – Angel Guts: Red Classroom
  Angel Guts: Red Classroom
  is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Chūsei Sone and released by the Nikkatsu studio as part of their Roman porno line. It is the second in the Angel Guts film series, based on a manga by Takashi Ishii.-Synopsis:...
  
  , Jukyusai no chizu
  Jūkyūsai no Chizu
  is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi.-Awards:1st Yokohama Film Festival*Best Supporting Actor - Keizō Kanie*Best New Director - Mitsuo Yanagimachi*Best Newcomer - Yūji Honma*7th Best Film...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress: Ako
  Ako (actress)
  is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for Woman with Red Hair and Wet Weekend.-Filmography:* Pink Tush Girl * Pink Tush Girl: Love Attack...
  
   – Akai kami no onna
  Woman with Red Hair
  is an award-winning Japanese pink film in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.-Wins:* Best Actress, Junko Miyashita - Hochi Film Awards* Best Actress, Junko Miyashita - Kinema Jumpo* Best Supporting Actress, Ako - Yokohama Film Festival...
  
  , Nureta shumatsu
• Best Director:
  • Kazuhiko Hasegawa
    Kazuhiko Hasegawa
    is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for The Man Who Stole the Sun.-Life and career:...
    
     – Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko
    Taiyo o Nusunda Otoko
    Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko , also known as The Man Who Stole the Sun, is a 1979 satirical film from Japan, directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko and written by Leonard Schrader.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Chūsei Sone
    Chusei Sone
    is a Japanese film director known primarily for his stylish and popular Roman Porno films for Nikkatsu, particularly the first two installments of the Angel Guts series. Despite a somewhat uneven career, many mainstream critics consider Sone the best of Nikkatsu's Roman Porno directors.-Life and...
    
     – Angel Guts: Red Classroom
    Angel Guts: Red Classroom
    is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Chūsei Sone and released by the Nikkatsu studio as part of their Roman porno line. It is the second in the Angel Guts film series, based on a manga by Takashi Ishii.-Synopsis:...
    
    
• Best New Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
  Mitsuo Yanagimachi
  Mitsuo Yanagimachi is an award-winning Japanese screenwriter and film director.-Career:...
  
   – Jūkyūsai no Chizu
  Jūkyūsai no Chizu
  is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi.-Awards:1st Yokohama Film Festival*Best Supporting Actor - Keizō Kanie*Best New Director - Mitsuo Yanagimachi*Best Newcomer - Yūji Honma*7th Best Film...
  
  
• Best Screenplay: Masaru Baba – 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...
  
  
• Best Cinematography: Seizō Sengen – Yomigaeru kinrō, Hakuchyu no shikaku
• Special Prize:
  • Junko Miyashita
    Junko Miyashita
    is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema.- Career :Junko Miyashita was born in Tokyo on January 29, 1949. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films....
    
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  • Shinya Yamamoto (Career)

1981

• Held on 8 February 1981 in Keihin Film Theatre, Tsurumi, Kanagawa
• Best Film: 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...
  
  
• Best New Actor: Tatsuo Yamada
  Tatsuo Yamada
  was a Japanese actor best known for his portrayal of biker Jin, the protagonist of Sōgo Ishii's 1980 film Crazy Thunder Road.- External links :...
  
   – Kuruizaki sanda rodo
• Best Actor: Masato Furuoya
  Masato Furuoya
  was a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival and at the 5th Hochi Film Award for Disciples of Hippocrates and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Uchū no hōsoku. He committed suicide on March 25, 2003 by hanging himself...
  
    – Hipokuratesu-tachi
• Best Actress: Hiroko Yakushimaru
  Hiroko Yakushimaru
  is a Japanese actress and vocalist.After passing the audition for the film produced by Haruki Kadokawa, she began her acting career. Along with teen idols Tomoyo Harada and Noriko Watanabe who made debut after a similar process, she was often described as one of "Kadokawa Sannimusume" in her early...
  
   – Tonda Couple
  Tonda Couple
  is a shōnen manga series by Kimio Yanagisawa. It won the 1979 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. It was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Shinji Sōmai.- Awards:3rd Kodansha Manga Award*Won: Shōnen2nd Yokohama Film Festival...
  
  
• Best New Actress: Keiko Oginome
  Keiko Oginome
  is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 14th Yokohama Film Festival for The Triple Cross. Yōko Oginome is her younger sister.-Filmography:* The Triple Cross * Crest of Betrayal...
  
   – Kaichō-on
• Best Supporting Actor: Morio Kazama
  Morio Kazama
  is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival for Shiki Natsuko and Yūgure made and at the 6th and 7th Japan Academy Prizes.-Filmography:...
  
   – Shiki Natsuko
  Shiki Natsuko
  is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Yōichi Higashi.-Awards:5th Hochi Film Award* Won: Best Supporting Actress - Yoko Agi2nd Yokohama Film Festival* Won: Best Supporting Actor - Morio Kazama...
  
  , Yūgure made
• Best Supporting Actress: Ran Itoh – Hipokuratesu-tachi
• Best Director: 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...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Best New Director: Shinji Sōmai
  Shinji Sōmai
  was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. His film Ohikkoshi was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Tonda kappuru * Sērā-fuku to kikanjū...
  
   – Tonda Couple
  Tonda Couple
  is a shōnen manga series by Kimio Yanagisawa. It won the 1979 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. It was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Shinji Sōmai.- Awards:3rd Kodansha Manga Award*Won: Shōnen2nd Yokohama Film Festival...
  
  
• Best Screenplay: Shoichi Maruyama – Tonda Couple
  Tonda Couple
  is a shōnen manga series by Kimio Yanagisawa. It won the 1979 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. It was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Shinji Sōmai.- Awards:3rd Kodansha Manga Award*Won: Shōnen2nd Yokohama Film Festival...
  
  , Yajū shisubeshi
• Best Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka – 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...
  
  
• Best Independent Film: Kuruizaki sanda rodo
• Special Prize:
  • Tai Kato
    Tai Kato
    was a Japanese film director and writer, most famous for making jidaigeki and yakuza films at the Toei Company. He directed films from the 1950s to the 1980s....
    
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  • Yusaku Matsuda
    Yusaku Matsuda
    was a Japanese actor. Yusaku was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi to a Zainichi Korean mother. His father is not known. His date was wrongly recorded as 1950 on his birth records due to a parental error in filing a report.-Career:...
    
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1982

• Held on 7 February 1982 in Yokohama Citizens Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: No yohna mono
• Best New Actor: Bang-ho Cho – Gaki teikoku, Akutare sensō
• Best Actor: Toshiyuki Nagashima – Enrai
  Enrai
  or Distant Thunder is a 1981 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi.-Synopsis:Enrai is a low-key study of a farmer, Mitsuo Wada, in 1980s Japan when modernization and urbanization were threatening rural areas...
  
  
• Best Actress: Maiko Kazama
  Maiko Kazama
  is a Japanese actress known especially for her roles in Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series of films in the early 1980s.-Life and career:Kazama was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan on May 25, 1956. She began her acting career at least as early as December 1979 with the Shintōhō pink film directed by...
  
   – Woman Who Exposes Herself
  Woman Who Exposes Herself
  is a 1981 Japanese film directed by Masaru Konuma and starring Maiko Kazama. It is the third film in the four part "The Woman Who ..." series which Nikkatsu produced in 1981-1982 as part of their Roman porno series to showcase the talents of Maiko Kazama as a successor to Naomi Tani who had retired...
  
  
• Best New Actress:
  • Yuki Ninagawa
    Yuki Ninagawa
    Ninagawa Yuki is a Japanese actress, daughter of the poet Mizuno Akiyoshi.-Feature filmography:*Shogun's Ninja *Crazy Fruit 狂った果実...
    
     – Kurutta kajitsu
  • Yoshiko Oshimi – Yarareta onna
• Best Supporting Actor: Renji Ishibashi – Kemono-tachi no atsui nemuri
• Best Supporting Actress: Yūko Tanaka – Eijanaika
  Eijanaika (film)
  is a 1981 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Kaori Momoi - Ine* Shigeru Izumiya - Genji* Ken Ogata - Furukawa* Shigeru Tsuyuguchi - Kinzo* Masao Kusakari - Itoman...
  
  , Hokusai manga
• Best Director: Enrai- Kichitaro Negishi
  Kichitaro Negishi
  is a Japanese film director. Although his films are admired by critics in Japan for their intelligence, Negishi has received little international recognition for his work. He has not been credited with a distinctive style but he has been called a subtle director who often elicits strong...
  
  , Kurutta kajitsu
• Best New Director: Yoshimitsu Morita – No yohna mono
• Best Screenplay: Haruhiko Arai
  Haruhiko Arai
  is a Japanese screenwriter who is also publisher and editor of Eiga Geijutsu , one of Japan's longest-running film magazines. He won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film W's Tragedy.-As screenwiter:...
  
   – Enrai
• Best Cinematography: Shohei Ando – Enrai, Muddy River
  Muddy River (film)
  Muddy River is a 1981 Japanese film directed by Kôhei Oguri. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-External links:...
  
  
• Best Independent Film: Afternoon Breezes
• Special Prize: Ken Takakura
  Ken Takakura
  , born , is a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brings to his roles.Takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough-guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar Fukuoka...
  
   (Career)

1983

• Held on 4 February 1983 in Yokohama Citizens Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Tenkosei
• Best Actor: Ryudo Uzaki (宇崎竜童) – Tattoo Ari
  Tattoo Ari
  is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Banmei Takahashi. The film was based on the life of Akiyoshi Umekawa.-Cast:* Ryūdō Uzaki as Akio Takeda* Keiko Sekine as Michiyo* Misako Watanabe as Sadako Takeda* Ayako Ōta as Miyoko...
  
  
• Best Actress: Ayumi Ishida – Yaju-deka
• Best New Actress:
  • Reiko Nakamura – Mizu no nai pūru
  • Satomi Kobayashi
    Satomi Kobayashi
    is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She won the award for best newcomer at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival for Exchange Students. She was previously married to screenwriter Kōki Mitani.-Filmography:# Exchange Students...
    
     – Tenkosei
• Best Supporting Actor: Mitsuru Hirata – Kamata koshin-kyoku
• Best Supporting Actress: Masako Natsume – Dai Nippon teikoku
• Best Director: Banmei Takahashi
  Banmei Takahashi
  is a Japanese film director. Takashi started his career in the pink film industry, making his directorial debut in 1972 with Escaped Rapist Criminal. Due to a disagreement with his producer, Takahashi quit the film industry for a couple years...
  
   Tattoo Ari
  Tattoo Ari
  is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Banmei Takahashi. The film was based on the life of Akiyoshi Umekawa.-Cast:* Ryūdō Uzaki as Akio Takeda* Keiko Sekine as Michiyo* Misako Watanabe as Sadako Takeda* Ayako Ōta as Miyoko...
  
  
• Best New Director: Shun Nakahara – Okasare shigan
• Best Screenplay: Wataru Kenmochi – Tenkosei
• Best Cinematography: Masaki Tamura – Saraba itoshiki daichi, Nippon-koku Furuyashiki-mura
• Best Independent Film: Yami utsu shinzō
• Special Prize:
  • Keiko Matsuzaka
    Keiko Matsuzaka
    is an actress.Born in Ōta, Tokyo, her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku....
    
     (Career)
  • Nobuo Nakagawa
    Nobuo Nakagawa
    was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s.-Career:Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews to the Kinema Junpō film magazine. He joined Makino Film...
    
     (Career)

1984

• Held on 29 January 1984 in Kanagawa Prefectural Youth Centre Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: The Family Game
  The Family Game
  is a Japanese movie that was directed by Yoshimitsu Morita in 1983. The movie portrays the changing dynamics of Japanese family life around the time...
  
  
• Best Actor: Yusaku Matsuda
  Yusaku Matsuda
  was a Japanese actor. Yusaku was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi to a Zainichi Korean mother. His father is not known. His date was wrongly recorded as 1950 on his birth records due to a parental error in filing a report.-Career:...
  
   – The Family Game
  The Family Game
  is a Japanese movie that was directed by Yoshimitsu Morita in 1983. The movie portrays the changing dynamics of Japanese family life around the time...
  
  
• Best Actress: Eiko Nagashima – Ryuji
• Best New Actress:
  • Yukari Usami – Miyuki
  • Tomoyo Harada
    Tomoyo Harada
    Tomoyo Harada is a Japanese actress, singer, and lyricist, and was a popular idol in the 80's. She was cast in numerous films and TV-series since her beginning in 1982 in the leading role of the original TV-series Sailorfuku to kikanju...
    
     – Toki o kakeru shōjo
• Best Supporting Actor: 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....
  
   – The Family Game
  The Family Game
  is a Japanese movie that was directed by Yoshimitsu Morita in 1983. The movie portrays the changing dynamics of Japanese family life around the time...
  
  , The Makioka Sisters
  The Makioka Sisters (film)
  is the name of three films based on the serial novel of the same name by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The third of these films, released in 1983, is the most famous. It was directed by Kon Ichikawa.-The Sisters:...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress: Misako Tanaka
  Misako Tanaka
  , née is a Japanese actress. Tanaka was born in Oki District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.-Filmography:# ダイアモンドは傷つかない # 丑三つの村 # The Horizon # Gonza the Spearman...
  
   – Ushimitsu no mura
• Best Director: Yoshimitsu Morita – The Family Game
  The Family Game
  is a Japanese movie that was directed by Yoshimitsu Morita in 1983. The movie portrays the changing dynamics of Japanese family life around the time...
  
  
• Best Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Morita – The Family Game
  The Family Game
  is a Japanese movie that was directed by Yoshimitsu Morita in 1983. The movie portrays the changing dynamics of Japanese family life around the time...
  
  
• Best Cinematography: Yonezo Maeda – The Family Game
  The Family Game
  is a Japanese movie that was directed by Yoshimitsu Morita in 1983. The movie portrays the changing dynamics of Japanese family life around the time...
  
  
• Best Independent Film: Ryuji
• Special Jury Prize: Shōji Kaneko – For his talent.
• Special Prize:
  • Haruki Kadokawa (Career)
  • Yoichi Maeda (Career)

1985

• Held on 3 February 1985 in Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Mahjong hōrōki
• Best Actor: Takeshi Kaga
  Takeshi Kaga
  is a well-known stage and movie actor in Japan who is probably best known internationally for his portrayal of Chairman Kaga in the Japanese television show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV. His real name is .-Biography:...
  
   – Mahjong hōrōki
• Best Actress: Mari Shirato – Ningyo densetsu
• Best New Actress:
  • Yasuko Tomita – Aiko 16-sai
  • Youki Kudoh
    Youki Kudoh
    is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best newcomer at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for The Crazy Family. She also won the award for best actress at the 16th Hochi Film Award for War and Youth.-Filmography:-External links:* *...
    
     – Gyakufunsha kazoku
  • Kimiko Yoshimiya – Renzoku satsujinki: Reiketsu
• Best Supporting Actor: Kaku Takashina – Mahjong hōrōki
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Kin Sugai – Ososhiki
  • Etsuko Shihomi – Shanhai bansukingu
• Best Director: Toshiharu Ikeda
  Toshiharu Ikeda
  was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who worked in pink film and mainstream cinema. He won the award for Best Director at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for Mermaid Legend.-Early career - Nikkatsu:...
  
   – Ningyo densetsu
• Best New Director: Shūsuke Kaneko
  Shusuke Kaneko
  is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.-Career:Shūsuke Kaneko began his career in film with Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, in which he served as assistant director to Kōyū Ohara. The series also gave Kaneko his directorial debut with writer Kōichirō Uno's, Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging ,...
  
   – Uno Koichiro no nurete utsu, Ol yurizoku 19 sai, Eve-chan-no hime
• Best Screenplay: 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....
  
   – Ososhiki
• Best Cinematography: Yonezo Maeda – Ososhiki, Ningyo densetsu, Tokimeki ni shisu, Mein teema
• Special Prize:
  • Norifumi Suzuki
    Norifumi Suzuki
    ', also known as Norifumi Suzuki, is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his works for studio Toei , especially the Red Peony Gambler and Truck Yarō series.Suzuki was born November 26, 1933 in Shizuoka...
    
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  • Sayuri Yoshinaga (Career)

1986

• Held on 9 February 1986 in Yokohama Nikkatsu Theatre, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Love Hotel
• Best Actor: Minori Terada – Love Hotel
• Best Actress: Tomoyo Harada
  Tomoyo Harada
  Tomoyo Harada is a Japanese actress, singer, and lyricist, and was a popular idol in the 80's. She was cast in numerous films and TV-series since her beginning in 1982 in the leading role of the original TV-series Sailorfuku to kikanju...
  
   – Soushun monogatari
• Best New Actress:
  • Noriko Hayami – Love Hotel
  • Yuka Ōnishi
    Yuka Onishi
    Yuka Onishi or Ohnishi is a Japanese actress, idol singer in the 1980's, notable in the west for her role in the TV series Sukeban Deka III in 1987 and its following movies, Sukeban Deka: The Movie and Sukeban Deka II.- Albums :* 1986.07.01 : Abunai Tightrope* 1987.08.31 : Take a Chance -...
    
     – Taifū kurabu
• Best Supporting Actor: Tomokazu Miura
  Tomokazu Miura
  is a Japanese actor. Born January 28, 1952 in Enzan, Yamanashi, his real name is Miura Minoru . He attended Hino high school in Tokyo, and married actress and singer Momoe Yamaguchi in 1980...
  
   – Taifū kurabu
• Best Supporting Actress: Kie Nakai – Kanashii kibun de joke
• Best Director: Shinji Sōmai – Love Hotel, Taifū kurabu
• Best Screenplay: Takashi Ishii
  Takashi Ishii
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has directed several pinku eiga erotic films, but his most notable feature was the 1995 nihilistic crime thriller Gonin starring Takeshi Kitano.-Director: is a Japanese film director and screenwriter...
  
   – Love Hotel, Muhan
• Best Cinematography: Noboru Shinoda – Love Hotel
• Best Music Score: Shigeru Umebayashi
  Shigeru Umebayashi
  is a Japanese composer.Once the leader of Japan's new-wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 40 Japanese and Chinese films to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for his score for director Wong Kar-wai's In...
  
   – Sorekara, Tomo yo shizukani nemure
• Best Independent Film: Keppū Rock
• Special Prize:
  • Mitsuko Baisho (Career)
  • Tatsumi Kumashiro
    Tatsumi Kumashiro
    was a Japanese film director best known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning Roman Porno films, such as Ichijo's Wet Lust and The Woman with Red Hair...
    
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1987

• Held on 1 February 1987 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Uhohho tankentai
• Best New Actor: Tōru Nakamura – Bi bappu haisukuru, Bee Bop highschool: Koko yotaro elegy
• Best Actor: Kouichi Iwaki – Minami e hashire, umi no michi o!
• Best Actress: Narumi Yasuda – Minami e hashire, umi no michi o!, Inujini sesi mono, Sorobanzuku
• Best New Actress:
  • Miki Imai – Inujini sesi mono
  • Kiwako Harada – Kare no ootobai, kanojo no shima
• Best Supporting Actor: Kaoru Kobayashi – Sorobanzuku
• Best Supporting Actress: Noriko Watanabe – Kare no ootobai, kanojo no shima
• Best Director: Hiroyuki Nasu – Bi bappu haisukuru, Bee Bop highschool: Koko yotaro elegy
• Best New Director: Kaizo Hayashi
  Kaizo Hayashi
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with To Sleep so as to Dream . Abroad, he is best known for his neo-noir Maiku Hama trilogy, The Most Terrible Time in My Life , Stairway to the Distant Past and The Trap .-Partial filmography:* To Sleep so as to Dream *...
  
   – Yume miruyoni nemuritai
• Best Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Morita – Uhohho tankentai, Sorobanzuku
• Best Cinematography: Yasushi Sasakibara – Minami e hashire, umi no michi o!, Saya no iru tousizu
• Best Independent Film: Yume miruyoni nemuritai
• Special Jury Prize: Saya no iru tousizu – For the staff.
• Special Prize: Kihachi Okamoto
  Kihachi Okamoto
  was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including jidaigeki.-Career:Born in Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted in 1943 and entered World War II during its most difficult hours, an experience that had a profound effect on his later film work,...
  
   (Career)

1988

• Held on 7 February 1988 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
  The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
  is an award-winning 1987 documentary by director Kazuo Hara. The documentary centers on 62-year-old veteran of Japan's Second World War campaign in New Guinea, Kenzo Okuzaki, and follows him around as he searches out those responsible for the unexplained deaths of two soldiers in his old unit...
  
  
• Best Actor: Saburō Tokitō – Eien no 1/2
• Best Actress: Yasuko Tomita – Bu su
• Best New Actress:
  • Asako Kobayashi – Hahako kankin: mesu
  • Michiru Akiyoshi – Hikaru onna
  • Yasuyo Shirashima – Honba jyoshikou manual: Hatsukoi binetsu-hen
• Best Supporting Actor: Sabu Kawahara – Hahako kankin: mesu
• Best Supporting Actress: Eri Ishida – Chōchin
• Best Director:
  • Shunichi Kajima – Chōchin
  • Kazuo Hara – The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
    is an award-winning 1987 documentary by director Kazuo Hara. The documentary centers on 62-year-old veteran of Japan's Second World War campaign in New Guinea, Kenzo Okuzaki, and follows him around as he searches out those responsible for the unexplained deaths of two soldiers in his old unit...
    
    
• Best New Director: Chisho Itoh
  Tohjiro
  Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma who has been described as a "charismatic director" and has been called the "greatest porn director in the world.-Life and career:...
  
   – Gondola
• Best Screenplay: Hiroshi Saito – Honba jyoshikou manual: Hatsukoi binetsu-hen, Itoshino Half Moon
  Itoshino Half Moon
  Itoshino Half Moon is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Yōjirō Takita. Based on a novel by actress Mieko Harada, screenwriter Hiroshi Saito won the "Best Screenplay" award at the Yokohama Film Festival for this film.-Cast:* Maiko Itō: Yoko Sugino...
  
  
• Best Cinematography: Toshihiko Uryu – Gondola
• Special Jury Prize: Chōchin – For the staff.
• Special Prize: Kensaku Morita (Career)

1989

• Held on 12 February 1989 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Rock yo shizukani nagareyo
• Best New Actor: Otokogumi (Shoji Narita, Kazuya Takahashi, Kenichi Okamoto, and Koyo Maeda) – Rock yo shizukani nagareyo
• Best Actor: Hiroyuki Sanada
  Hiroyuki Sanada
  is a Japanese actor.-Life and career:Sanada was born in Tokyo. Originally aiming to be an action star, starting with shorinji kempo, he eventually took up Kyokushin kaikan Sanada began training at age 11 with actor and martial arts star Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club where he developed good...
  
   – Kaitō Ruby
• Best Actress: Kyōko Koizumi
  Kyoko Koizumi
  ' is a Japanese singer and actress. Her music is released through Victor Entertainment . She is also known by the nickname Kyon Kyon. She had singles reach the Top ten for 12 consecutive years between 1983 and 1994, a female solo artist record, until this was broken by Namie Amuro...
  
   – Kaitō Ruby
• Best New Actress: Yukari Tachibana
  Yukari Tachibana
  Yukari Tachibana is a Japanese actress.-External links:...
  
   – Neko no youni
• Best Supporting Actor: Tsurutaro Kataoka – Ijintachi tono natsu
• Best Supporting Actress: Shuko Honami – Ureshi hazukashi monogatari
• Best Director:
  • Shūsuke Kaneko
    Shusuke Kaneko
    is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.-Career:Shūsuke Kaneko began his career in film with Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, in which he served as assistant director to Kōyū Ohara. The series also gave Kaneko his directorial debut with writer Kōichirō Uno's, Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging ,...
    
     – 1999 - Nen no natsu yasumi, Rasuto kyabaree
  • Shunichi Nagasaki
    Shunichi Nagasaki
    is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Director: is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Director: is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Director::2007 Black Belt Known in Japan as Kuro-Obi【黒帯】....
    
     – Rock yo shizukani nagareyo
• Best New Director: Koji Enokido – Futari botchi
• Best Screenplay: Shoichi Maruyama – Futari botchi, Rabu sutori o kimini
• Best Cinematography: Kenji Takama
  Kenji Takama
  Kenji Takama J.S.C. in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese cinematographer. Takama is a member of Japanese Society of Cinematographers.- Biography :Born in Tokyo in 1949...
  
   – 1999 - Nen no natsu yasumi

1990

• Held on 11 February 1990 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Dotsuitarunen
• Best New Actor: Hidekazu Akai – Dotsuitarunen
• Best Actor: Ryo Ishibashi
  Ryo Ishibashi
  is a Japanese actor and international celebrity. He is known around the world for his roles in the classic Japanese Horror films Suicide Club and Audition. He is also recognized in America for his role as Nakagawa in The Grudge and The Grudge 2....
  
   – A Sign Days
• Best Actress: Anna Nakagawa – A Sign Days
• Best New Actress: Ayako Kawahara – Kitchen
• Best Supporting Actor: Yoshio Harada
  Yoshio Harada
  was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in 1967 with "Tenka no seinen" and his film debut in 1968 with Fukushū no uta ga kikoeru. He came to fame...
  
   – Dotsuitarunen, Kiss yori kantan
• Best Supporting Actress: Haruko Sagara
  Haruko Sagara
  Haruko Sagara is a Japanese actress and ex-idol singer in the 1980s, popular for her role as Okyo in the cult TV series Sukeban Deka II...
  
   – Dotsuitarunen
• Best Director: Takeshi Kitano
  Takeshi Kitano
  is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...
  
   – Violent Cop
  Violent Cop
  is a 1989 Japanese film directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano. It was Kitano's directorial debut, and marked the beginning of his career as a filmmaker.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Best New Director: Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsuitarunen and followed it up with another boxing film,...
  
   – Dotsuitarunen
• Best Screenplay: Hiroshi Saito and Yoichi Sai – A Sign Days
• Best Cinematography: Kenji Takama
  Kenji Takama
  Kenji Takama J.S.C. in Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese cinematographer. Takama is a member of Japanese Society of Cinematographers.- Biography :Born in Tokyo in 1949...
  
   – Who Do I Choose?
  Who Do I Choose?
  is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. For her role in this film, actress Rie Miyazawa was given the Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best New Talent...
  
  , Kaze no matasaburo, Garasu no manto
• Special Jury Prize: Yusaku Matsuda
  Yusaku Matsuda
  was a Japanese actor. Yusaku was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi to a Zainichi Korean mother. His father is not known. His date was wrongly recorded as 1950 on his birth records due to a parental error in filing a report.-Career:...
  
   (Career)

1991

• Held on 10 February 1991 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Sakura no sono
• Best Actor: Masato Furuoya – Uchū no hosoku
• Best Actress: Yuki Saito – Hong Kong Paradise
  Hong Kong Paradise
  is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. Actress Yuki Saito won the Best Actress award at the Yokohama Film Festival for her performance in this film....
  
  
• Best New Actress:
  • Saki Takaoka
    Saki Takaoka
    is a Japanese actress. Yōsuke Yamashita, a jazz pianist is her uncle. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for Crest of Betrayal.- Filmography :* cf girl * Swimming Upstream...
    
     – Bataashi kingyo
  • Hiroko Nakajima – Sakura no sono
  • Riho Makise – Tugumi, Tōkyō jōkū irasshaimase
• Best Supporting Actor: Keizo Kanie – Ware ni utsu yoi ari
• Best Supporting Actress: Tomoko Nakajima – Tugumi
• Best Director: Shun Nakahara – Sakura no sono
• Best New Director: Joji Matsuoka – Bataashi kingyo
• Best Screenplay: Hiroaki Jinno – Sakura no sono
• Best Cinematography: Norimichi Kasamatsu – Bataashi kingyo, Tekken
• Best Music Score: Shigeru Umebayashi
  Shigeru Umebayashi
  is a Japanese composer.Once the leader of Japan's new-wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 40 Japanese and Chinese films to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for his score for director Wong Kar-wai's In...
  
   – Tekken
• Special Prize:
  • Yoshio Harada
    Yoshio Harada
    was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in 1967 with "Tenka no seinen" and his film debut in 1968 with Fukushū no uta ga kikoeru. He came to fame...
    
     (Career)
  • Kōji Wakamatsu
    Koji Wakamatsu
    is a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses...
    
     (Career)

1992

• Held on 8 March 1992 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: A Scene at the Sea
  A Scene at the Sea
  is a 1991 Japanese film written and directed by Takeshi Kitano.This movie was a break from previous Kitano fare in that it features no gangsters or police...
  
  
• Best New Actor: Sabu
  Sabu (director)
  is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director .-Career:Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku...
  
   – Warudo apaatomento horaa
• Best Actor: Hidekazu Akai – Ōte
• Best Actress: Jun Fubuki
  Jun Fubuki
  is a Japanese actress. She received a Japanese Academy Award Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in Muno no hito, and won at the Hochi Film Awards. This role also won Fubuki the "Best Actress" award at the Yokohama Film Festival...
  
   – Muno no hito
• Best New Actress:
  • Hiroko Oshima – A Scene at the Sea
    A Scene at the Sea
    is a 1991 Japanese film written and directed by Takeshi Kitano.This movie was a break from previous Kitano fare in that it features no gangsters or police...
    
    
  • Hikari Ishida
    Hikari Ishida
    is a Japanese actress. She starred along with Megumi Odaka and Natsuki Ozawa in the TV-series Hana no Asuka Gumi. She also released several singles and six albums and she had one minor hit with the song "Emerald no Suna". Ishida also made numerous commercials for hair products and released several...
    
     – Futari, Aitsu, Kamitsukitai/Dorakiyura yori ai-0
• Best Supporting Actor: Koji Matoba – Shishiohtachi no natsu, Shushoku sensen ijonashi
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Emi Wakui – Musuko, Shushoku sensen ijonashi
  • Reona Hirota – Ōte, Yumeji
    Yumeji
    is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za , surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by...
    
    
• Best Director: Takeshi Kitano
  Takeshi Kitano
  is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...
  
   – A Scene at the Sea
  A Scene at the Sea
  is a 1991 Japanese film written and directed by Takeshi Kitano.This movie was a break from previous Kitano fare in that it features no gangsters or police...
  
  
• Best New Director: Naoto Takenaka
  Naoto Takenaka
  is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi.-Director:*Munō no Hito *119...
  
   – Muno no hito
• Best Film Score: Joe Hisaishi
  Joe Hisaishi
  , known professionally as , is a composer and director known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.While possessing a stylistically distinct sound, Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic,...
  
   – A Scene at the Sea
  A Scene at the Sea
  is a 1991 Japanese film written and directed by Takeshi Kitano.This movie was a break from previous Kitano fare in that it features no gangsters or police...
  
  , Futari
• Best Screenplay: Toshiharu Marūchi – Muno no hito
• Best Cinematography: Akihiro Itō – Ōte
• Best Art Direction: Noriyoshi Ikeya – Yumeji
  Yumeji
  is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za , surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize: Katsuhiro Ōtomo
  Katsuhiro Otomo
  is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.-Biography:Katsuhiro Otomo was...
  
   – Warudo apaatomento horaa – For succeeding in making animation film as well as feature film.

1993

• Held on 7 February 1993 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: 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...
  
  
• Best New Actor:
  • Etsushi Toyokawa
    Etsushi Toyokawa
    to pursue a career in acting. He began by joining the sho-gekijo theatrical troupe "Under Thirty," which was known for the membership of another famous actor, Watanabe Eriko, at the time...
    
     – Juninin no yasashii nihonjin, Kira kira hikaru, Kacho shima kōsaku
  • Yoshiyuki Omori – Wangan Bad Boy Blue, Seishun dendekedekedeke, Bokuto kidan
• Best Actor: Masahiro Motoki
  Masahiro Motoki
  Masahiro Motoki is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Best Actress: Yōko Minamino
  Yoko Minamino
  is a Japanese idol, singer, and actress born on June 23, 1967 in Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School in the Chūō district of Nakano, Tokyo. She is well known for her role as Saki Asamiya in the second season of the live action Sukeban Deka TV series, replacing...
  
   – Kantsubaki, Watashi o daite soshite kisu shite
• Best New Actress: Yuki Sumida – Bokuto kidan
• Best Supporting Actor: Hideo Murota – Original Sin
  Original Sin (1992 film)
  is a 1992 film directed by Japanese director Takashi Ishii. Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man....
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Keiko Oginome – Itsuka giragirasuruhi
  • Misa Shimizu – 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...
    
    , Mirai no omoide: Last Christmas, Okoge
    Okoge
    is a gay-themed Japanese film written and directed by Takehiro Nakajima, released in 1992. It is also a common slang term.- Cast :- Awards :* 1992 Hochi Film Award: Best Actress , Best Supporting Actor...
    
    
• Best Director: 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 :...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Best New Director:
  • Katsuya Matsumura
    Katsuya Matsumura
    is a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his violent thriller-horror film series All Night Long.-Life and career:Matsumura was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1963. After graduating college, he entered the film industry where he worked on documentary films and short documentaries...
    
     – All Night Long
    All Night Long (1992 film)
    is a 1992 Japanese film directed by Katsuya Matsumura. It is the first in a series of six films. Matsumura won an award for best new director at the Yokohama Film Festival for this film.- Plot :...
    
    
  • Tadafumi Tomioka – Wangan Bad Boy Blue
• Best Screenplay: 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 :...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Best Cinematography: Yasushi Sasakibara – Wangan Bad Boy Blue, Original Sin
  Original Sin (1992 film)
  is a 1992 film directed by Japanese director Takashi Ishii. Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man....
  
  
• Special Prize: 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...
  
   (Career)

1994

• Held on 13 February 1994 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru
• Best Film Score: Hajime Kaburagi – Gensen-Kan Shujin
• Best New Actor: Goro Kishitani – Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru
• Best Actor: Hiroyuki Sanada
  Hiroyuki Sanada
  is a Japanese actor.-Life and career:Sanada was born in Tokyo. Originally aiming to be an action star, starting with shorinji kempo, he eventually took up Kyokushin kaikan Sanada began training at age 11 with actor and martial arts star Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club where he developed good...
  
   – Bokura wa minna ikiteiru, Nemuranai machi – Shinjuku same, Yamai wa kikara: Byōin e ikō 2
• Best Actress: Isako Washio – Waga ai no uta – Taki Rentaro monogatari
• Best New Actress:
  • Kyōko Toyama – Kōkō kyōshi
  • Tomoko Tabata
    Tomoko Tabata
    -TV:*Watashi No Aozora - Nazuna *Shinsengumi! - Kondo Tsune, Kondo Isami's wife-References:...
    
     – Ohikkoshi
• Best Supporting Actor: Masato Hagiwara
  Masato Hagiwara
  is a Japanese actor. He is employed by Alpha Agency.-Live-Action Roles:*Change!*Onmyoji as Imperial Prince Sawara Shinno-Anime roles:*Akagi as Shigeru Akagi*Blade as Kykyo Mikage...
  
   – Kyōso tanjō, Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru, Gakko
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Kaoru Mizuki – Gensen-Kan Shujin
  • Ruby Moreno – Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru
• Best Director: Yoichi Sai – Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru
• Best New Director: Toshihiro Tenma – Kyōso tanjō
• Best Screenplay: Nobuyuki Isshiki – Bokura wa minna ikiteiru, Yamai wa kikara: Byōin e ikō 2, Sotsugyo ryoko: Nihon kara kimashita
• Best Cinematography: Junichi Fujisawa – Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru
• Special Prize: Teruo Ishii
  Teruo Ishii
  was a Japanese film director best known in the West for his early films in the Super Giant series, and for his films in the Ero guro subgenre of pinku eiga such as Shogun's Joys of Torture . He also directed the 1965 film, Abashiri Prison, which helped to make Ken Takakura a major star in Japan...
  
   – Gensen-Kan Shujin – For his career and for directing the film.

1995

• Held on 22 January 1995 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Tokarefu
• Best Film Score: Shigeru Umebayashi
  Shigeru Umebayashi
  is a Japanese composer.Once the leader of Japan's new-wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 40 Japanese and Chinese films to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for his score for director Wong Kar-wai's In...
  
  – Tokarefu, Izakaya yurei
• Best Actor: Eiji Okuda
  Eiji Okuda
  is a Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in Sen no Rikyu...
  
   – Bo no kanashimi
• Best Actress: Saki Takaoka
  Saki Takaoka
  is a Japanese actress. Yōsuke Yamashita, a jazz pianist is her uncle. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for Crest of Betrayal.- Filmography :* cf girl * Swimming Upstream...
  
   – Chushingura gaiden yotsuya kaidan
• Best Supporting Actor: Kōichi Satō
  Koichi Sato
  is a Japanese actor.He is the son of veteran Japanese actor Rentarō Mikuni.-Films:*The Last Chushingura *Nobody to watch over me * Shonen Merikensack * The Magic Hour * Smile Seiya no Kiseki...
  
   – Tokarefu
• Best Supporting Actress: Shigeru Muroi – Izakaya yurei
• Best Director: Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsuitarunen and followed it up with another boxing film,...
  
   – Tokarefu
• Best New Director: Takeshi Watanabe – Kyouju Luger P08
• Best Screenplay: Yōzō Tanaka – Izakaya yurei, Natsu no niwa
• Best Cinematography: Norimichi Kasamatsu – Yoru ga mata kuru, Tenshi no harawata: Akai senkō, Enjeru dasuto
• Best New Talent:
  • Shunsuke Matsuoka – 800 Two Lap Runners
  • Hinako Saeki
    Hinako Saeki
    is a Japanese actress who was born on February 16, 1977 in Nara, Japan. Probably her best known role was as Sadako Yamamura in Rasen, the 1998 sequel to the horror film Ring....
    
     – Mainichi ga natsuyasumi
  • Yui Natsukawa
    Yui Natsukawa
    is a Japanese entertainer. She was born on June 1, 1968 in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan. She is a left-hander . She was given a Best New Talent award at the 1995 Yokohama Film Festival for her role in Yoru ga mata kuru.-Drama:...
    
     – Yoru ga mata kuru
• Special Prize: Azuma Morisaki – For his work.

1996

• Held on 2 February 1996 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Love Letter
• Best Actor: Etsushi Toyokawa
  Etsushi Toyokawa
  to pursue a career in acting. He began by joining the sho-gekijo theatrical troupe "Under Thirty," which was known for the membership of another famous actor, Watanabe Eriko, at the time...
  
   – Love Letter
• Best Actress: Miho Nakayama – Love Letter
• Best Supporting Actor: Kazuhiko Kanayama – Burai heiya, Shin kanashiki hittoman
• Best Supporting Actress: Shinobu Nakayama
  Shinobu Nakayama
  Shinobu Nakayama is an actress and a former J-pop singer. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and released her first single on 2 November 1988. Her final release as a J-pop artist was on 1 March 1991. She was a member of the short-lived idol groups Nanatsuboshi and Rakutenshi...
  
   – Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
  Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
  , is a 1995 Kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It is a reboot of the Gamera film franchise. It is the ninth entry in the Gamera film series and first in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy. It was followed by Attack of The Legion and Revenge of Iris....
  
  
• Best Director:
  • Shūsuke Kaneko
    Shusuke Kaneko
    is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.-Career:Shūsuke Kaneko began his career in film with Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, in which he served as assistant director to Kōyū Ohara. The series also gave Kaneko his directorial debut with writer Kōichirō Uno's, Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging ,...
    
     – Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
    Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
    , is a 1995 Kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It is a reboot of the Gamera film franchise. It is the ninth entry in the Gamera film series and first in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy. It was followed by Attack of The Legion and Revenge of Iris....
    
    
  • Shunji Iwai
    Shunji Iwai
    is a Japanese film director/video artist, writer and documentarian.-Life and career:Iwai was born in Sendai, Japan, Miyagi prefecture. He attended Yokohama National University, graduating in 1987....
    
     – Love Letter
• Best New Director: Atsushi Muroga – Score
• Best Screenplay: Kazunori Itō
  Kazunori Ito
  is a Japanese anime screenwriter and artist who is well known for his work in the .hack Franchise and his writing for the Ghost in the Shell movie. Itō also provided the art for .hack//Another Birth. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear....
  
   – Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
  Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
  , is a 1995 Kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It is a reboot of the Gamera film franchise. It is the ninth entry in the Gamera film series and first in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy. It was followed by Attack of The Legion and Revenge of Iris....
  
  , Kōkaku kidōtai
• Best Cinematography: Noboru Shinoda – Love Letter
• Best New Talent:
  • Reiko Kataoka – Ai no shinsekai, Kamikaze takushii
  • Sawa Suzuki – Gokudo no onna-tachi: Akai kizuna, Ai no shinsekai, Nihon ichi mijikai 'Haha' e no tegami, Teito monogatari gaiden
  • Miki Sakai
    Miki Sakai
    Miki Sakai , born 21 February 1978 in Shizuoka, Japan is an actress and J-pop idol singer.As a teenager she made her feature film debut in the 1995 Shunji Iwai film Love Letter playing the role of Itsuki Fujii as a young girl...
    
     – Love Letter
• Best Technical: Shinji Higuchi
  Shinji Higuchi
  is a storyboard artist and is one of the top special effects wizards in Japan, best known for his work on the Heisei Gamera Trilogy. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.-Biography:...
  
   – Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
  Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
  , is a 1995 Kaiju film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It is a reboot of the Gamera film franchise. It is the ninth entry in the Gamera film series and first in Shusuke Kaneko's Gamera trilogy. It was followed by Attack of The Legion and Revenge of Iris....
  
  – For his special effects.
• Special Jury Prize: Score – For the actors who played the "Score Gangs".
• Special Prize: Ikuo Sekimoto
  Ikuo Sekimoto
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Director: is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Director: is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Director::2004 School Wars: Hero:1995 Gokudo no onna-tachi: Akai kizuna...
  
   – Gokudo no onna-tachi: Akai kizuna – For his work.

1997

• Best Film: Kids Return
  Kids Return
  All compositions by Joe Hisaishi.#"Meet Again" 5:02#"Graduation" 1:07#"Angel Doll" 2:21#"Alone" 1:15#"As a Rival" 1:29#"Promise... for Us" 5:08#"Next Round" 1:28#"Destiny" 3:31#"I Don't Care" 2:18#"High Spirits" 2:03#"Defeat" 2:29#"Break Down" 3:46...
  
  
• Best Actor:
  • Tadanobu Asano
    Tadanobu Asano
    , born is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin...
    
     – Pikunikku, Focus, Helpless, Acri
  • Kōji Yakusho – Shall We Dance?, Nemuru otoko, Shabu gokudo
• Best Actress: Eri Fukatsu
  Eri Fukatsu
  Eri Fukatsu , nicknamed , is a Japanese actress.Eri Fukatsu was born in Ōita, Ōita, Japan. Among other things, she has appeared in the TV series and the subsequent spin-off movies of the series. She is managed by Amuse Inc...
  
   – (Haru)
• Best Supporting Actor: Ryo Ishibashi
  Ryo Ishibashi
  is a Japanese actor and international celebrity. He is known around the world for his roles in the classic Japanese Horror films Suicide Club and Audition. He is also recognized in America for his role as Nakagawa in The Grudge and The Grudge 2....
  
   – Kids Return
• Best Supporting Actress: Reiko Kusamura – Shall We Dance?
• Best Director: 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 :...
  
   – Shall We Dance?
• Best New Director: Sabu
  Sabu (director)
  is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director .-Career:Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku...
  
   – Dangan ranna
• Best Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Morita – (Haru)
• Best Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagishima
  Katsumi Yanagishima
  , also credited as Katsumi Yanagijima, is a Japanese cinematographer. He has worked with Takeshi Kitano in films like A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine, Zatoichi, Kids Return, Kikujiro, Dolls and others...
  
   – Kids Return
• Best New Talent:
  • Masanobu Ando
    Masanobu Ando
    is a Japanese actor and director.For his second film, in 1996, he won the Film Academy of Japan's Best New Actor Award, starring in Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return....
    
     – Kids Return
  • Chara
    Chara (singer)
    , better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer-songwriter, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single Heaven...
    
     – Pikunikku, Suwarōteiru
  • Tamiyo Kusakari
    Tamiyo Kusakari
    is a Japanese dancer for the Maki Asami Ballet Company. In 1987, she made her debut as Odette in Swan Lake.From Toshima, Tokyo, Kusakari started dancing professionally at the age of eight and won the first prize at the Japan Ballet Competition of 1987. She received the Muramatsu Award in 1988, and...
    
     – Shall We Dance?
• Special Jury Prize: Kaizo Hayashi
  Kaizo Hayashi
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut with To Sleep so as to Dream . Abroad, he is best known for his neo-noir Maiku Hama trilogy, The Most Terrible Time in My Life , Stairway to the Distant Past and The Trap .-Partial filmography:* To Sleep so as to Dream *...
  
   – Waga jinsei saiaku no toki, Harukana jidai no kaidan oand Wana
• Special Prize: Tetsuya Watari
  Tetsuya Watari
  is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosugi's .He is now the president of Ishihara Promotion.He has a younger brother, Tsunehiko Watase, who is also an actor.-Filmography:-External links:* *...
  
   Waga kokoro no ginga tetsudo: Miyazawa Kenji monogatari (Career)

1998

• Held on 8 February 1997 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Onibi
• Best Actor: Yoshio Harada
  Yoshio Harada
  was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in 1967 with "Tenka no seinen" and his film debut in 1968 with Fukushū no uta ga kikoeru. He came to fame...
  
   – Onibi
• Best Actress: Kyōka Suzuki – Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
  Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
  is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Koki Mitani. It was popular in Japan upon its release and won 3 Japanese Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Supporting Actor...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Masahiko Nishimura – Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
    Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
    is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Koki Mitani. It was popular in Japan upon its release and won 3 Japanese Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Supporting Actor...
    
    , Marutai no onna
  • Isao Bitoh – Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi
• Best Supporting Actress: Reiko Kataoka – Onibi
• Best Director: Rokurō Mochizuki
  Rokuro Mochizuki
  is a Japanese film director who has worked in pink film, adult videos and mainstream cinema. He won the award for Best Director at the 19th Yokohama Film Festival for Onibi and A Yakuza in Love.-Early career - Pink film:...
  
   – Onibi, Koi gokudo
• Best New Director: Koki Mitani
  Koki Mitani
  is a Japanese playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director. He was previously married to Japanese actress Satomi Kobayashi. The name "Koki" is a combination of two Japanese characters - 幸 "Happy" and 喜 "Pleased". In an attempt to add his own character to his movies, as a director he takes...
  
   – Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
  Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
  is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Koki Mitani. It was popular in Japan upon its release and won 3 Japanese Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Supporting Actor...
  
  
• Best Screenplay: Masato Harada
  Masato Harada
  Masato Harada is a Japanese film director, critic, and sometimes an actor; he is best known to Western audiences as Omura in The Last Samurai and as Mr Mita in Fearless...
  
   – Baunsu ko gaurusu
• Best Cinematography: Yoshitaka Sakamoto – Baunsu ko gaurusu
• Best New Talent:
  • Ryōko Hirosue
    Ryoko Hirosue
    is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. She also starred in a comedy series Yasuko to Kenji in 2008.- Early life :...
    
     – 20-seiki nosutarujia
  • Yukiko Okamoto
    Yukiko Okamoto
    is a Japanese actress. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 1998 Yokohama Film Festival.-References:...
    
     – Baunsu ko gaurusu
  • Hitomi Sato – Baunsu ko gaurusu
  • Yasue Sato
    Yasue Sato
    was born on December 7th 1978 in the Saitama Prefecture, Honshū, Japan. She is a former model and formally trained in ballet. She made her acting debut in the movie Bounce Ko Gals , for which she was given a Best New Talent award at the Yokohama Film Festival...
    
     – Baunsu ko gaurusu
• Special Jury Prize: Sharan-Q no enka no hanamichi

1999

• Held on 7 February 1998 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Cure
  Cure (film)
  is a 1997 thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• Best Actor:
  • Kuroudo Maki – Orokamono: Kizu darake no tenshi
  • Kiichi Nakai – Rabu retaa, Ai o kou hito
• Best Actress: Mieko Harada – Ai o kou hito
• Best Supporting Actor: Ren Osugi
  Ren Osugi
  , born , is a Japanese actor. For his work in Cure, Hana-bi and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival...
  
   – Cure
  Cure (film)
  is a 1997 thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa.- Synopsis :...
  
  , Hana-bi
  Hana-bi
  , released in the US as "Fireworks", is a 1997 Japanese film written, directed and edited by, and starring Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. The film's score was composed by renowned Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi. This was their fourth collaboration...
  
  , Ganbatte ikimasshoi, Orokamono: Kizu darake no tenshi, Inu hashiru
• Best Supporting Actress: Yumi Yoshiyuki
  Yumi Yoshiyuki
  is a Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter best known for her work in the pink film genre.-Life and career:While studying economics at Dokkyo University, Yoshiyuki developed a love of film. She debuted as an actress in the pink film genre in 1993 in director Toshiki Satō's...
  
   – D-Zaka no satsujin jiken, Daikaijū Tōkyō ni arawaru
• Best Director:
  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa...
    
     – Cure
    Cure (film)
    is a 1997 thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa.- Synopsis :...
    
    
  • Itsumichi Isomura
    Itsumichi Isomura
    is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 20th Yokohama Film Festival for Ganbatte Ikimasshoi....
    
     – Ganbatte ikimasshoi
• Best New Director: Hideaki Anno
  Hideaki Anno
  is a Japanese animation and film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. His style has come to be defined by the touches of postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the thorough portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions,...
  
   – Love & Pop
  Love & Pop
  ' is director Hideaki Anno's first live action film, an adaptation of Ryū Murakami's novel, Topaz II. Released in 1998, it somewhat follows the film Tokyo Decadence, an adaptation of Topaz I filmed by Murakami himself...
  
  
• Best Screenplay: Ryoichi Kimizuka – Odoru daisosasen
• Best Cinematography: Yuichi Nagata – Ganbatte ikimasshoi
• Best New Talent:
  • Rena Tanaka
    Rena Tanaka
    is a Japanese actress and TV personality. In 1999, she won the Japanese Academy Award for 'Best Newcomer' for her performance in Give It All; in 2001 she received a 'Best Actress' nomination for Hatsukoi.-Selected filmography:* Give It All...
    
     – Ganbatte ikimasshoi
  • Kumiko Aso – Dr. Akagi
    Dr. Akagi
    Dr. Akagi, known in Japan as , is a 1998 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.- Plot :The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doctor on an island in the Seto Inland Sea area during World War II. He runs into conflict with the military while trying to combat a hepatitis epidemic. Akagi earns the nickname...
    
    
  • Asumi Miwa – Love & Pop
    Love & Pop
    ' is director Hideaki Anno's first live action film, an adaptation of Ryū Murakami's novel, Topaz II. Released in 1998, it somewhat follows the film Tokyo Decadence, an adaptation of Topaz I filmed by Murakami himself...
    
    
• Special Jury Prize:
  • Yoichi Maeda – For focusing on entertainment rather than "serious" movies.
  • Odoru daisosasen

2000

• Held on 6 February 2000 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: 39 keihō dai sanjūkyū jō
• Best Actor: Ken Takakura
  Ken Takakura
  , born , is a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brings to his roles.Takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough-guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar Fukuoka...
  
   – 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....
  
  
• Best Actress: Shinobu Ootake – Kuroi ie
• Best Supporting Actor: Kazuki Kitamura – Kyohansha, Minazuki, Kanzen-naru shiiku
• Best Director: Yoshimitsu Morita – 39 keihō dai sanjūkyū jō
• Best New Director:
  • Kentarō Ōtani – Avec mon mari
  • Akihiko Shiota – Gekkō no sasayaki, Dokomademo ikō
• Best Screenplay: Sumio Omori – 39 keihō dai sanjūkyū jō
• Best Cinematography: Nobuyasu Kita – Kuroi ie
• Best New Talent:
  • Yuka Itaya – Avec mon mari
  • Tsugumi – Gekkō no sasayaki
  • Takami Yoshimoto – Minazuki
  • Chizuru Ikewaki – Ōsaka monogatari
• Special Prize: Sumiko Fuji – Omocha (Career)

2001

• Held on 4 February 2001 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Kao
• Best Actor: Tadanobu Asano
  Tadanobu Asano
  , born is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin...
  
   – Gojo reisenki: Gojoe, Jirai wo fundara sayōnara
• Best Actress: Naomi Fujiyama – Kao
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Teruyuki Kagawa – Dokuritsu shonen gasshōdan, Suri
  • Jun Murakami
    Jun Murakami
    is a Japanese actor. He was given a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2001 Yokohama Film Festival.-Selected filmography: is a Japanese actor. He was given a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2001 Yokohama Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
    
     – Nabbie no koi, Futei no kisetsu, Shin jingi naki tatakai
• Best Supporting Actress: Naomi Nishida
  Naomi Nishida
  is an actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2001 Yokohama Film Festival and at the 25th Hochi Film Award for her performance in Nabbie's Love.She married a Japanese shoe designer in 2005, and gave birth a girl on April 7, 2008...
  
   – Nabbie no koi
• Best Director: Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsuitarunen and followed it up with another boxing film,...
  
   – Kao
• Best New Director: Akira Ogata – Dokuritsu shonen gasshōdan
• Best Screenplay: Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto
  Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsuitarunen and followed it up with another boxing film,...
  
   and Isamu Uno – Kao
• Best Cinematography: Masami Inomoto – Dokuritsu shonen gasshōdan
• Best New Talent:
  • Sora Tōma – Dokuritsu shonen gasshōdan
  • Ryuhei Matsuda
    Ryuhei Matsuda
    is a Japanese film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in Japanese films such as Taboo and Nana.-Early life:Matsuda was born on 9 May 1983 in Tokyo to Yusaku Matsuda, a Japanese actor, and Miyuki Matsuda , a Japanese actress. He has two siblings, one of whom is Japanese actor Shota...
    
     – Taboo
    Taboo (1999 film)
    is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima. It shows life in a samurai training school during the bakumatsu period, the end of the samurai era in the mid-19th century, specifically concentrating on the issue of homosexuality in the shudō tradition in the partially-closed environment.-Plot...
    
    
  • Kirina Mano – Suri, Bullet Ballet
    Bullet Ballet
    Bullet Ballet is a Japanese film directed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto, and co-starring Hisashi Igawa, Sujin Kim, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura and Kyoka Suzuki....
    
    
• Special Jury Prize: Yukiko Shii – Kao
• Special Prize: Masaru Konuma
  Masaru Konuma
  is a Japanese director most famous for his Roman Porno films for Nikkatsu during the 1970s.-Early life:Masaru Konuma was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, on December 30, 1937. Konuma retains no memories of his father who was a teacher...
  
   – Nagisa – For directing film as well as for his work

2002

• Held on 2 February 2002 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Go
  Go (2001 film)
  Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki . It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan and his love story with a Japanese girl...
  
  
• Best Actor: Yōsuke Kubozuka – Go
  Go (2001 film)
  Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki . It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan and his love story with a Japanese girl...
  
  , Oboreru sakana
• Best Supporting Actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki – Go
  Go (2001 film)
  Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki . It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan and his love story with a Japanese girl...
  
  , The Guys from Paradise
  The Guys from Paradise
  The Guys from Paradise is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike.-Cast:*Monsour Del Rosario*Kenichi Endo*Kazuhiko Kanayama*Koji Kikkawa as Kôhei Hayakawa*Toshiyuki Kitami*Kenji Mizuhashi...
  
  , Go Heat Man!, Jo gakusei no tomo
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Kou Shibasaki
    Kou Shibasaki
    , born Yukie Yamamura, on August 5, 1981 in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese singer and actress.-Music career:Shibasaki made her debut in the music industry in 2002 with her first single Trust My Feelings, but she became recognized for her second single Tsuki no shizuku which was used for the...
    
     – Go
    Go (2001 film)
    Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki . It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan and his love story with a Japanese girl...
    
    , Battle Royale
    Battle Royale
    thumb|260px|Cover of the 2009 expanded edition, ISBN 978-1-4215-2772-3 is a 1999 Japanese novel written by Koushun Takami. The story tells of schoolchildren who are forced to fight each other to the death....
    
    
  • Yūki Amami
    Yuki Amami
    is a Japanese actress.-Career:Amami joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1987 and retired in 1995. Amami was the youngest actress in the company's history to be cast in a top male role...
    
     – Rendan, Inugami
• Best Director: Isao Yukisada
  Isao Yukisada
  from Kumamoto, Japan is a Japanese film director. He served as assistant director on Shunji Iwai's Love Letter, April Story, and Swallowtail Butterfly.-Director:* OPEN HOUSE * A Closing Day...
  
   – Go
  Go (2001 film)
  Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki . It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan and his love story with a Japanese girl...
  
  
• Best New Director:
  • Masahiko Nagasawa
    Masahiko Nagasawa
    Masahiko Nagasawa is a Japanese film director. He was given a Best New Director award for his film Koko ni irukoto at the 2002 Yokohama Film Festival.-Filmography:...
    
     – Koko ni irukoto
  • Shin Togashi – Off-Balance
• Best Screenplay: Kankurō Kudō
  Kankuro Kudo
  Kankurō Kudō is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku...
  
   – Go
  Go (2001 film)
  Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki . It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan and his love story with a Japanese girl...
  
  
• Best Cinematography: Naoki Kayano – Onmyoji
  Onmyoji (film)
  is a Japanese movie that was released in 2001 and sent to the US in 2004. Directed by Yōjirō Takita, it tells of the exploits of Abe no Seimei, the Onmyoji from the court of the Emperor. He befriended bungling court noble, Minamoto no Hiromasa, who enlists his aid to defend the Heian emperor...
  
  
• Best New Talent:
  • Takato Hosoyamada – Go
    Go (2001 film)
    Go is a 2001 Japanese movie by Isao Yukisada, based on the novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. The film stars Kubozuka Yōsuke and Kou Shibasaki . It tells the story of a Korean boy born and raised in Japan and his love story with a Japanese girl...
    
    , All About Lily Chou-Chou
    All About Lily Chou-Chou
    is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Shunji Iwai. The film portrays the rough lives of high school children in Japan, and centres around the music of a fictional singer Lily Chou-Chou.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Hitomi Manaka – Koko ni irukoto
  • Megumi Hatachiya – Off-Balance
• Special Prize: Shinji Sōmai (Career)

2003

• Held on 2 February 2003
• Best Film: Hush!
  Hush! (2001 film)
  Hush! is a Japanese film directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi, starring Seiichi Tanabe, Kazuya Takahashi and Reiko Kataoka, released in 2001.The theme song is "Hush Little Baby" from the album Hush performed by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma.-Cast:...
  
  
• Best Actor:
  • Seiichi Tanabe – Hush!
    Hush! (2001 film)
    Hush! is a Japanese film directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi, starring Seiichi Tanabe, Kazuya Takahashi and Reiko Kataoka, released in 2001.The theme song is "Hush Little Baby" from the album Hush performed by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma.-Cast:...
    
    
  • Kyozo Nagatsuka – Warau kaeru
• Best Actress: Asaka Seto
  Asaka Seto
  Asaka Seto also known as Megumi Ieda, is a Japanese actress who works at Foster Management. She won the award for Best Actress at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for Travail...
  
   – Travail
• Best Supporting Actor: Shinya Tsukamoto
  Shinya Tsukamoto
  is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...
  
   – Travail, Koroshiya 1, Kuroe
• Best Supporting Actress: Nene Otsuka – Warau kaeru, Utsutsu
• Best Director:
  • Ryosuke Hashiguchi – Hush!
    Hush! (2001 film)
    Hush! is a Japanese film directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi, starring Seiichi Tanabe, Kazuya Takahashi and Reiko Kataoka, released in 2001.The theme song is "Hush Little Baby" from the album Hush performed by Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma.-Cast:...
    
    
  • 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...
    
     – Warau kaeru, Out
• Best New Director: Fumihiko Sori
  Fumihiko Sori
  Fumihiko Sori is a Japanese film director and film producer. He received a nomination for the 'Best Director' prize at the Japanese Academy Awards for his directing debut, Ping Pong.-Director:*2002 Ping Pong*2007 Vexille*2008 Ichi...
  
   – Ping Pong
  Ping Pong (film)
  is a 2002 sports film directed by the Japanese filmmaker Fumihiko Sori. It is based on Taiyō Matsumoto's manga of the same name and is about the friendship between two high school table tennis players....
  
  
• Best Screenplay: Kentarō Ōtani – Travail
• Best Cinematography: Kozo Shibazaki – Out, Warau kaeru
• Best New Talent:
  • Masahiro Hisano – Gomen
    Sorry (film)
    Sorry aka Gomen is a 2002 Japanese film by director Shin Togashi. It is a coming of age drama about the confusion of first love set in Kyoto and Osaka, Japan...
    
    
  • Yukika Sakuratani – Gomen
    Sorry (film)
    Sorry aka Gomen is a 2002 Japanese film by director Shin Togashi. It is a coming of age drama about the confusion of first love set in Kyoto and Osaka, Japan...
    
    
  • Mikako Ichikawa
    Mikako Ichikawa
    Mikako Ichikawa is a Japanese actress and model from Tokyo, Japan. She was working as a model for the Japanese fashion magazine Olive under an exclusive contract...
    
     – Travail

2004

• Held on 1 February 2004 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Vibrator
• Best Actor: Satoshi Tsumabuki
  Satoshi Tsumabuki
  is a Japanese actor. His breakthrough film was Waterboys for which he was nominated for the 'Best Actor' award at the Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 'Newcomer of the Year' prize...
  
   – Sayonara, Kuro, Doragon heddo
• Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima – Vibrator, Akame shijuya taki shinju misui
• Best Supporting Actor: Nao Ōmori
  Nao Omori
  is a Japanese actor, with his most notable role as Ichi in Ichi the Killer directed by Takashi Miike. He is the son of Japanese actor Akaji Maro. His older brother is the film director Tatsushi Ōmori. Nao is sometimes credited under the name Nao Ohmori...
  
   – Vibrator, Akame shijuya taki shinju misui
• Best Supporting Actress: Kimiko Yo – Sayonara, Kuro, Hoteru haibisukasu, Gūzen nimo saiaku na shounen
• Best Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
  Ryuichi Hiroki
  is a Japanese artist, film director, and film editor.-Biography:Ryūichi Hiroki is now one of the most prolific film directors in Japan. He is a pioneer in using digital video to shoot theatrical films in Japan...
  
   – Vibrator
• Best New Director: Miwa Nishikawa
  Miwa Nishikawa
  is a Japanese director.Hirokazu Koreeda produced her feature film Wild Berries after she worked as an assistant director on his Distance...
  
   – Hebi ichigo
• Best Screenplay: Haruhiko Arai – Vibrator
• Best Cinematography: Norimichi Kasamatsu – Sayonara, Kuro, Akame shijuya taki shinju misui, Bokunchi
• Best Art Direction: Takeo Kimura
  Takeo Kimura
  was a Japanese art director, writer and film director. Beginning his career in 1945 he art-directed well over 200 films. He was one of Japan's best known art directors, most famously for his collaborations with cult director Seijun Suzuki through the 1960s at the Nikkatsu Company, exemplified by...
  
   – Jōhatsu tabinikki
• Best New Talent:
  • Masami Nagasawa
    Masami Nagasawa
    is a Japanese actress under Toho Entertainment. She has performed in many movies and television dramas including Crying out Love, In the Center of the World, Dragon Zakura and Proposal Daisakusen. She graduated from Horikoshi High School in 2006. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or, as Tomohisa...
    
     – Ashura no gotoku, Robokon
  • Hiroyuki Miyasako – Hebi ichigo, 13 kaidan
  • Satomi Ishihara
    Satomi Ishihara
    is a Japanese actress.Popular mostly among Japanese fans, she gained recognition for her acting talent. She started taking parts acting in Japanese dramas in 2003. Also, she appeared in various commercial events also known as public relations...
    
      Watashi no guranpa
• Special Prize: Hideo Onchi – Warabi no kou – For this film and for his career.

2005

• Held on 6 February 2005 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa

• Best Film: Kamikaze Girls
  Kamikaze Girls
  is a 2002 light novel written by Novala Takemoto that has been adapted into a manga and film.Kamikaze Girls centers around two students, Momoko Ryugasaki and Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri , who are from completely different backgrounds: one is a Lolita girl, the other, her gyaru antithesis, a Yankī...
  
  
• Best Actor: Kōji Yakusho – Yudan taiteki, Tōkyō genpatsu, Warai no Daigaku: University of Laughs
  Warai no Daigaku: University of Laughs
  Warai no Daigaku: 　University of Laughs is a story by Japanese dramatist Mitani Koki which began as a play in 1997 starring actors Nishimura Masahiko as the Censor and Kondo Yoshimasa as the Playwright...
  
  
• Best Actress: Kyōko Fukada
  Kyoko Fukada
  is an actress and singer. In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for Kamikaze Girls.- Career :...
  
   – Kamikaze Girls
  Kamikaze Girls
  is a 2002 light novel written by Novala Takemoto that has been adapted into a manga and film.Kamikaze Girls centers around two students, Momoko Ryugasaki and Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri , who are from completely different backgrounds: one is a Lolita girl, the other, her gyaru antithesis, a Yankī...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor: Akira Emoto – Yudan taiteki, Niwatori wa hadashi da
• Best Supporting Actress: Kirin Kiki – Kamikaze Girls
  Kamikaze Girls
  is a 2002 light novel written by Novala Takemoto that has been adapted into a manga and film.Kamikaze Girls centers around two students, Momoko Ryugasaki and Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri , who are from completely different backgrounds: one is a Lolita girl, the other, her gyaru antithesis, a Yankī...
  
  , Han-ochi, Hotaru no hoshi
• Best Director: 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....
  
   – Kamikaze Girls
  Kamikaze Girls
  is a 2002 light novel written by Novala Takemoto that has been adapted into a manga and film.Kamikaze Girls centers around two students, Momoko Ryugasaki and Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri , who are from completely different backgrounds: one is a Lolita girl, the other, her gyaru antithesis, a Yankī...
  
  
• Best New Director: Izuru Narushima – Yudan taiteki
• Best Screenplay: Shinobu Yaguchi
  Shinobu Yaguchi
  is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He specializes in feel-good "zero to hero" films, where a group of people take up an unlikely activity, face a number of obstacles, but finally succeed. His film Waterboys was particularly successful and led to a TV series which entered its third...
  
   – Swing Girls
  Swing Girls
  is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Shinobu Yaguchi about the efforts of a group of high school girls to form a jazz band....
  
  
• Best Cinematography: Takahide Shibanushi – Swing Girls
  Swing Girls
  is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Shinobu Yaguchi about the efforts of a group of high school girls to form a jazz band....
  
  , Shinkokyū no hitsuyō, Gege
• Best New Talent:
  • Yūya Yagira
    Yûya Yagira
    Yuya Yagira is a Japanese actor from Higashiyamato, Tokyo. His portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed Nobody Knows won him a Best Actor Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
    
     – Nobody Knows
  • Anna Tsuchiya
    Anna Tsuchiya
    is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress and semi-retired model.Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent from Buffalo, New York. In her earliest years, she spoke English and Japanese...
    
     – Kamikaze Girls
    Kamikaze Girls
    is a 2002 light novel written by Novala Takemoto that has been adapted into a manga and film.Kamikaze Girls centers around two students, Momoko Ryugasaki and Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri , who are from completely different backgrounds: one is a Lolita girl, the other, her gyaru antithesis, a Yankī...
    
    , The Taste of Tea
    The Taste of Tea
    is the third film by Japanese writer and director Katsuhito Ishii. The film has been referred to as a "surreal" version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. It was a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
    
    
  • Juri Ueno
    Juri Ueno
    is a Japanese actress from Kakogawa, Hyogo, Japan. She was one of six actors to receive the "Newcomer of the Year" prize at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2005 for her role in Swing Girls....
    
     – Swing Girls
    Swing Girls
    is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Shinobu Yaguchi about the efforts of a group of high school girls to form a jazz band....
    
    , Joze to tora to sakana tachi, Chirusoku no natsu
• Special Prize: Kazuo Kuroki – Utsukushii natsu kirishima, Chichi to Kuraseba

2006

• Held on 5 February 2006 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa

• Best Film: Pacchigi!
• Best Actor: Joe Odagiri
  Joe Odagiri
  , born is a Japanese actor.-Career:Commonly known just as Odajō, and also known for his unusual hairstyle and eclectic style of dressing, he is the epitome of Cool Japan...
  
   – House of Himiko
  House of Himiko
  , sometimes known in French as La Maison de Himiko , is a Japanese film made in 2005....
  
  , Scrap Heaven
  Scrap Heaven
  Scrap Heaven is a 2005 film, directed by Sang-il Lee. The movie was theatrically released to Japan in the year 2005. It was later released to the stores of North America in the year 2007.-Story:...
  
  , Princess Raccoon
  Princess Raccoon
  is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. The "raccoon" of the English title is actually a translation for the tanuki. It is a love story set in the musical genre and stars Zhang Ziyi as a tanuki princess and Joe Odagiri as the banished prince she falls in love with...
  
  Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
• Best Actress: Yūko Tanaka – Itsuka dokusho suruhi, Hibi
• Best Supporting Actor: Ittoku Kishibe – Itsuka dokusho suruhi, Hibi, Bōkoku no Iijisu, Vital
• Best Supporting Actress: Hiroko Yakushimaru
  Hiroko Yakushimaru
  is a Japanese actress and vocalist.After passing the audition for the film produced by Haruki Kadokawa, she began her acting career. Along with teen idols Tomoyo Harada and Noriko Watanabe who made debut after a similar process, she was often described as one of "Kadokawa Sannimusume" in her early...
  
   – 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:...
  
  , Princess Raccoon
  Princess Raccoon
  is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. The "raccoon" of the English title is actually a translation for the tanuki. It is a love story set in the musical genre and stars Zhang Ziyi as a tanuki princess and Joe Odagiri as the banished prince she falls in love with...
  
  , Reikusaido mada kesu, Tetsujin niju-hachigo
• Best Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu
  Kazuyuki Izutsu
  is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic. Born in Nara Prefecture, he started making 8mm films in high school, and directed his first 35mm film, a pink film, in 1975. He earned a citation from the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award in 1981 for Gaki teikoku, and his Boys...
  
   – Pacchigi!
• Best New Director: Kenji Uchida
  Kenji Uchida
  is a Japanese anime producer. He is noted anime studio Sunrise's president.Debuting in 1980, with Muteki Robo Trider G7, among Sunrise's first works in the 1980s, Uchida has gone on to produce numerous of Sunrise's works, such as various iterations of the Gundam universe and other Sunrise anime...
  
   – Unmei janai hito
• Best Screenplay: Kenji Aoki – Itsuka dokusho suruhi
• Best Cinematography: Hideo Yamamoto – Pacchigi!, The Great Yokai War, Tetsujin niju-hachigo
• Best New Talent:
  • Maki Horikita
    Maki Horikita
    is a Japanese actress and endorser. She debuted in 2003 as a U-15 idol and has since starred in Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies.- Childhood:...
    
     – 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:...
    
    , Gyakkyo Nine, Hinokio, Shinku
  • Erika Sawajiri
    Erika Sawajiri
    is a Japan-based actress, model, and musician. Her alias in her music career was Kaoru Amane, but she has recently started her own project under the name Erika...
    
     – Pacchigi!, Ashura-jō no hitomi, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
  • Shun Shioya – Pacchigi!
• Best Technical: Takashi Yamazaki – 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:...
  
  – For the VFX.
• Special Jury Prize: Kenji Uchida
  Kenji Uchida
  is a Japanese anime producer. He is noted anime studio Sunrise's president.Debuting in 1980, with Muteki Robo Trider G7, among Sunrise's first works in the 1980s, Uchida has gone on to produce numerous of Sunrise's works, such as various iterations of the Gundam universe and other Sunrise anime...
  
   – Unmei janai hito

2007

• Held on 4 February 2007 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: Yureru
• Best Actor: Teruyuki Kagawa – Yureru
• Best Actress: Yū Aoi
  Yû Aoi
  is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut as Shiori Tsuda in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film All About Lily Chou-Chou...
  
   – 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...
  
  , Honey and Clover
• Best Supporting Actor: Takashi Sasano
  Takashi Sasano
  is a Japanese actor best known in the West for his role in the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures.He is known to master variety of acting styles...
  
   – Metro ni notte, Nezu no ban, Tsuribaka nisshi 17
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Yūko Nakamura – Strawberry Shortcakes
    Strawberry Shortcakes
    Strawberry Shortcakes is a Japanese film by director Hitoshi Yazaki. The film, based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Kiriko Nananan, concerns the life of four girls, as they deal with their own insecurities while living in the metropolis of Tokyo...
    
    
  • Kazue Fukiishi – Yuki ni negau koto, Tegami, Memories of Tomorrow
    Memories of Tomorrow
    is a 2006 Japanese drama film starring Ken Watanabe, Higuchi Kanako and directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. The film is based on a novel of the same title published by Hiroshi Ogiwara in 2004.-Plot:...
    
    
• Best Director: Miwa Nishikawa
  Miwa Nishikawa
  is a Japanese director.Hirokazu Koreeda produced her feature film Wild Berries after she worked as an assistant director on his Distance...
  
   – Yureru
• Best New Director: Takayuki Nakamura – Yokohama Mary
• Best Screenplay: Miwa Nishikawa
  Miwa Nishikawa
  is a Japanese director.Hirokazu Koreeda produced her feature film Wild Berries after she worked as an assistant director on his Distance...
  
   – Yureru
• Best Cinematography: Isao Ishii – Strawberry Shortcakes
  Strawberry Shortcakes
  Strawberry Shortcakes is a Japanese film by director Hitoshi Yazaki. The film, based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Kiriko Nananan, concerns the life of four girls, as they deal with their own insecurities while living in the metropolis of Tokyo...
  
  
• Best New Talent:
  • Kenichi Matsuyama – Death Note
    Death Note (film)
    is a series of two live-action Japanese films released in 2006 and based on the Death Note manga and anime series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The films primarily center on a university student who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook that kills anyone...
    
    , Otoko-tachi no Yamato, Oyayubi sagashi
  • Yuriko Yoshitaka – Noriko's Dinner Table
    Noriko's Dinner Table
    , is the sequel to the cult film Suicide Club , a Japanese film, written and directed by Sion Sono, concerning a mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls and how it leads the law to a shadowy cult...
    
    
• Special Jury Prize: Takayuki Nakamura – Yokohama Mary

2008

• Held on 3 February 2008 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa
• Best Film: I Just Didn't Do It
  I Just Didn't Do It
  is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Masayuki Suo. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, he was acquitted after a five year legal battle. It was Japan's submission to the 80th Academy Awards...
  
  
• Best Actor: Ryō Kase
  Ryo Kase
  is a Japanese actor. He grew up in Bellevue, Washington until he was seven. He portrayed Shimizu, one of the lower-ranked Japanese soldiers, in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. He starred in Masayuki Suo's film I Just Didn't Do It.-Filmography:...
  
   – I Just Didn't Do It
  I Just Didn't Do It
  is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Masayuki Suo. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, he was acquitted after a five year legal battle. It was Japan's submission to the 80th Academy Awards...
  
  
• Best Actress: Eriko Sato
  Eriko Sato
  , originally a glamour model, is a Japanese actress.She was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and raised in Tokyo. She was given the Best Actress award at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival....
  
   – Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero
• Best Supporting Actor: Masatoshi Nagase
  Masatoshi Nagase
  Masatoshi Nagase is a Japanese actor. He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's Cold Fever and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, in Japan for his role as TV's Mike Hama .He has won two Japanese Academy Awards, for Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer in 1992...
  
   – Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero
• Best Supporting Actress: Hiromi Nagasaku
  Hiromi Nagasaku
  Hiromi Nagasaku is an actress, and was the member of the J-pop group Ribbon. She was born in Namegata, Ibaraki, Japan...
  
   – Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero
• Best Director: 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 :...
  
   – I Just Didn't Do It
  I Just Didn't Do It
  is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Masayuki Suo. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, he was acquitted after a five year legal battle. It was Japan's submission to the 80th Academy Awards...
  
  
• Best New Director: Daihachi Yoshida – Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero
• Best Screenplay: Satoko Okudera
  Satoko Okudera
  is a Japanese screenwriter. She is known for her screenplays in both the live-action and anime mediums. Her 1995 screenplay for Gakkô no kaidan was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize...
  
   – Shaberedomo shaberedomo, Kaidan
• Best Cinematography: Masakazu Ato – Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero
• Best New Talent
  • Kii Kitano
    Kii Kitano
    is a singer, gravure idol and an actress in Japan. She is signed with the Foster agency. Kitano is a former member of the celebrity girls futsal team Miss Magazine. In 2005, Kitano won a Miss Magazine Award, becoming the youngest to receive that award. In 2007, Kitano was chosen for the first time...
    
     – Kofuku na shokutaku
  • Yui Aragaki
    Yui Aragaki
    is a Japanese idol, model, actress, singer, seiyū and occasional radio show host of Ryukyuan ancestry.She is particularly recognized for her beauty and her movie projects.- Overview :...
    
     – Koi suru madori, Koizora
    Koizora
    , or for short, is a 2005 best-selling Japanese coming of age and romance novel written by Mika. Originally posted on the cell phone website "Mahō no iLand" , where chapters would be released exclusively for mobile reading, Koizora received a hard print publication from Starts Publications in...
    
    
  • Kaho
    Kaho (actress)
    is a Japanese actress and fashion model. Her real name is not disclosed.From 2004 to 2007, Kaho was the 11th Mitsui ReHouse Girl. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival for her performance in the film A Gentle Breeze in the Village.- Filmography :* Joō no Kyōshitsu...
    
     – A Gentle Breeze in the Village
    A Gentle Breeze in the Village
    A Gentle Breeze in the Village, also known as is a Japanese manga written by Fusako Kuramochi, serialized on a magazine Chorus from 1994 to 2000...
    
    
• Special Prize: Shiho Fujimura
  Shiho Fujimura
  Shiho Fujimura is a Japanese actress. She was given a Special Prize for her career at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival.-External links:** -References:...
  
   (Career)

2009

• Best Film: Yōjirō 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...
  
   – 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...
  
  

• Best Actor: Kaoru Kobayashi
  Kaoru Kobayashi (actor)
  is a Japanese actor born in Kyoto. He won the award for best actor at the 30th Yokohama Film Festival and the award for best supporting actor at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Sorobanzuku.- Films:Kobayashi has appeared in a vast number of films among them:...
  
   – Kyūka
• Best Actress: Eiko Koike
  Eiko Koike
  is a Japanese idol. Outside of Japan, her best-known work is the film 2LDK. She has worked as a ringside commentator and spokesperson for Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships from 2000 to 2006....
  
   – Seppun
• Best Supporting Actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima – Kyūka, Tonan kadobeya nikai no onna, Oka wo koete
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Ryōko Hirosue
    Ryoko Hirosue
    is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures. She also starred in a comedy series Yasuko to Kenji in 2008.- Early life :...
    
     – 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...
    
    
  • Kimiko Yo – 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...
    
    , Maboroshi no Yamataikoku, Oka wo koete
• Best Director: Yōjirō 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...
  
   – 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...
  
  
• Best New Director: Yoshitaka Mori – Hyaku hachi
• Best Screenplay: Kunitoshi Manda and Tamami Manda – Seppun

• Best Cinematographer: Akiko Ashizawa – Tokyo Sonata
  Tokyo Sonata
  is a 2008 film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It won the award for Best Film at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and received 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations for Achievement in Directing and Best Screenplay...
  
  , Kimi no tomodachi, Shiawase no kaori
• Best New Talent:
  • Riisa Naka
    Riisa Naka
    is a Japanese actress. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. Naka became famous by appearing in Hachi One Diver .-Personal life:Naka has a Swedish grandfather, making her one-quarter Swedish and three-quarters Japanese...
    
     – Jun kissa Isobe
  • Anna Ishibashi
    Anna Ishibashi
    is Japanese model and actress who plays Asami Tadokoro in Akai Ito. She was given a Best New Talent award at the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival. She recently played the lead role as the character Asuka in Toy Gun Film's 2011 short film, Paper Flower .-References:...
    
    – Kimi no tomodachi
  • Sarara Tsukifune – Sekai de ichiban utsukushii yoru
• Special Jury Prize: Yoshitaka Mori – Hyaku hachi

External links

• Yokohama Film Festival homepage (in Japanese)