The was the 20th edition of the ''
Japan Film Professional Awards
The are an annual Japanese film award. The first awards were given to films made in 1991. This award is hosted by Hiroo Ōtaka.
Categories
*Best Film
*Best Director
*Best Actor
*Best Actress
Editions
*1st (1991)
*2nd (1992)
* 3rd (1993)
*4th (1 ...
''. Films of
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
which had not already won a major domestic film award were eligible. Instead of an award ceremony, a charity event for the film was held to commemorate the 20th edition. A preview screening of the film took place on May 31, 2011, at Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku.
Awards
*Best Film: ''
Sawako Decides
is a 2009 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Yuya Ishii. The film stars Hikari Mitsushima as Sawako.
''Sawako Decides'' premiered at Tokyo at the PIA Film Festival in 2009. At the Fantasia Film Festival, the film won the award for Best Fea ...
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*Best Director:
Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic ''pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he ...
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Heaven's Story
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Takahisa Zeze. It was screened in the Main Programme of the Forum section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It has also won the Séquences Prize at the Fantasia
In ...
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*Best Actress:
Yuki Uchida
(born November 16, 1975) is a Japanese actress and former idol singer. Following her debut in the drama '' Sono Toki, Heart wa Nusumareta'' (1992), she received her first lead role in the 1994 drama adaption of '' The Girl Who Leapt Through Tim ...
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*Best Actor:
Sousuke Takaoka
is a Japanese former actor, known for his break-out performance in the controversial movie '' Battle Royale''.
Career
His break-out performance was in the controversial movie '' Battle Royale'', in which he played the pacifistic Hiroki Sugimu ...
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Sankaku
(Triangle) is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Keisuke Yoshida. It was released on 26 June 2010.
Plot
30-year-old Momose and 29-year-old Kayo have been living together for two years. There is no longer any romantic feeling between them, like ...
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*Best New Director:
Tetsuya Mariko
Tetsuya Mariko (born July 12, 1981) is a Japanese film director.
Biography
Mariko was born on July 12, 1981, in Tokyo, Japan. He began making short films while at Hosei University. He produced ''The Far East Apartment'' in 2003 and ''Mariko's 3 ...
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*Best New Encouragement:
Kengo Kora
is a Japanese actor.
Career
Kora has gained recognition for his roles in films such as Shinji Aoyama's '' Sad Vacation'', Yukio Ninagawa's '' Snakes and Earrings'', Tran Anh Hung's '' Norwegian Wood'', Ryuichi Hiroki's ''The Egoists'', Yosh ...
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*Best New Encouragement:
Kiko Mizuhara
Audrie Kiko Daniel (born October 15, 1990), known professionally as , is an American-born Japanese model, actress, singer and designer.
Kiko Mizuhara started her modeling career at the age of twelve when she entered an audition contest for '' Se ...
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Norwegian Wood'')
*Special: (For his longtime work.)
10 best films
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Sawako Decides
is a 2009 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Yuya Ishii. The film stars Hikari Mitsushima as Sawako.
''Sawako Decides'' premiered at Tokyo at the PIA Film Festival in 2009. At the Fantasia Film Festival, the film won the award for Best Fea ...
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Yuya Ishii)
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Heaven's Story
is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Takahisa Zeze. It was screened in the Main Programme of the Forum section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It has also won the Séquences Prize at the Fantasia
In ...
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Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic ''pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he ...
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Kazuyuki Izutsu
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic.
Career
Born in Nara Prefecture, Izutsu 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 o ...
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GeGeGe no Nyōbō
is an autobiography written by Nunoe Mura and published in 2008. It details her life as the wife of the manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, especially their struggles against poverty before he became successful. It has sold over 500,000 copies.
In ...
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Masahiro Kobayashi)
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Tetsuya Mariko
Tetsuya Mariko (born July 12, 1981) is a Japanese film director.
Biography
Mariko was born on July 12, 1981, in Tokyo, Japan. He began making short films while at Hosei University. He produced ''The Far East Apartment'' in 2003 and ''Mariko's 3 ...
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Tatsushi Ōmori
is a Japanese film director and actor.
Career
Ōmori was born in Tokyo as the eldest son of Akaji Maro, an actor and butoh dancer. His younger brother, Nao Ōmori, is an actor.
While in college, he began making 8 mm films, but started working ...
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Sketches of Kaitan City
is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and starring Mitsuki Tanimura and Ryo Kase.
Cast
* Mitsuki Tanimura as Honami Ikawa
* Pistol Takehara as Futa Ikawa
* Ryo Kase as Haruo Meguro
* Masaki Miura as Hiroshi Hagiya
* Ta ...
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Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
is a Japanese film director.
Career
Kumakiri debuted with ''Kichiku'' in 1997. His 2001 film, ''Hole in the Sky'', starred Susumu Terajima and Yuriko Kikuchi. His 2004 film, ''Green Mind, Metal Bats'', screened at the International Film Fest ...
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Outrage
Outrage may refer to:
* Outrage (emotion), an emotion
* Tort of outrage, in law, an alternative term for ''intentional infliction of emotional distress''
Books
* ''Outrage'', a novel by Henry Denker 1982
* ''Outrage'', a play by Itamar Moses ...
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Takeshi Kitano
, also known as in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host.
During hi ...
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Colorful
Color (or colour in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though co ...
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Keiichi Hara
is a Japanese director of animated films.
Biography
What started Hara on his career as an animation creator was visiting an animation film company as part of his job hunting activities after graduating from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College (TDG). H ...
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References
External links
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{{Japanese Professional Movie Awards
Japan Film Professional Awards
The are an annual Japanese film award. The first awards were given to films made in 1991. This award is hosted by Hiroo Ōtaka.
Categories
*Best Film
*Best Director
*Best Actor
*Best Actress
Editions
*1st (1991)
*2nd (1992)
* 3rd (1993)
*4th (1 ...
2011 in Japanese cinema
Japan Film Professional Awards
May 2011 in Japan