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42nd Yokohama Film Festival
The was held on 5 February 2021. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the physical awards ceremony was cancelled and an official pamphlet was released on 5 February 2021. The winners had been notified on 5 December 2020, and given their prizes individually. Awards * Best Film: - ''Labyrinth of Cinema'' * Best Director: Hideo Jojo - ' and '' Dangerous Drugs of Sex'' * Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial Best New Director: Takuya Uchiyama - ' * Best Screenplay: - ''A Beloved Wife'' and ''Underdog Parts 1 and 2'' * Best Cinematographer: - ' and ' * Best Actor: Kazunari Ninomiya - ''The Asadas'' * Best Actress: Asami Mizukawa - ''A Beloved Wife'' and ''Runway'' * Best Supporting Actor: ** - ''The Voice of Sin'' and ''The Real Thing'' ** Naoto Ogata - '' * Best Supporting Actress: Aju Makita - ''True Mothers'' and ' * Best Newcomer: ** Nana Mori - '' Last Letter'', ''461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son'', and ' ** - ' and ''His'' ** Hio Miyazawa - ''His'' ** Sakurako Konishi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas-powered street lamps (1870s), railway station (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aju Makita
is a Japanese actress. Career Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Makita made her acting debut at age 7. In 2012, she appeared in the TV drama '' Going My Home'' directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and has since acted in his films '' After the Storm'' (2016), '' The Third Murder'' (2017), and ''Shoplifters'' (2018). She won the best newcomer award at the Hochi Film Award in 2018 for ''Shino Can't Say Her Name'', directed by Hiroaki Yuasa. She then won the 2020 Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Hochi Film Award for best supporting actress for her role as a pregnant teenager in Naomi Kawase's ''True Mothers'', which was selected for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. Her performance in the film garnered praise from such reviewers as those in ''The Guardian'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Hollywood Reporter ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Film Festivals
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37 Seconds
''37 Seconds'' is a 2019 Japanese drama film written and directed by . The film features amateur actress Mei Kayama, who has cerebral palsy, as 23-year-old Yuma Takada, a talented artist who wants to make her name in manga. A sympathetic magazine editor ( Yuka Itaya) tells Takada her art is technically proficient but betrays her lack of worldly experience. Criticizing her depictions of sex as unconvincing, the editor tells the young woman, who uses a wheelchair to get around, to lose her virginity and then return. The film was screened at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Audience Award and the International Confederation of Art Cinemas’ Art Cinema Award in the festival's Panorama section. Cast * Mei Kayama as Yuma Takada * Misuzu Kanno as Kyoko Takada * Shunsuke Daitō as Toshiya * Makiko Watanabe as Mai * Minori Hagiwara as Sayaka * Yuka Itaya as Fujimoto * Shizuka Ishibashi as Physical Therapist * Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Pimp * Shôhei Uno as Iketani R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wife Of A Spy
is a 2020 Japanese spy drama film directed and co-written by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Yū Aoi and Issey Takahashi, the film is set in Japan during World War II, and centers on a wife who starts suspecting that her husband may be a spy for the United States. A theatrical version of ''Wife of a Spy'' was selected in the main competition section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion. Plot Members of the Japanese military police seize and arrest a British silk merchant on charges of espionage. In 1940, Yūsaku Fukuhara (Takahashi) runs an international import-export business in Kobe. After the arrest, and subsequent release, of the British merchant, a unit of the military police arrive at his office. Taiji (Higashide), the recently-promoted leader of the unit and a childhood friend of Yūsaku's wife, warns Yūsaku that relevant authorities are keeping an eye on him under the National Mobilization Law, in part because of his preference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuhiko Obayashi
was a Japanese director, screenwriter and editor of films and television advertisements. He began his filmmaking career as a pioneer of Japanese experimental films before transitioning to directing more mainstream media, and his resulting filmography as a director spanned almost 60 years. He is best known as the director of the 1977 horror film ''House'', which has garnered a cult following. He was notable for his distinct surreal filmmaking style, as well as the anti-war themes commonly embedded in his films. Early life Obayashi was born on 9 January 1938 in the city of Onomichi, Japan. After his father, a doctor, was called to the battlefront during World War II, he was raised in his early infancy by his maternal grandparents. Through his childhood and adolescence, Obayashi followed many artistic pursuits, including drawing, writing, playing the piano, and possessed a growing interest in animation and film. He made his first 8 mm film in 1944 at the age of 6, the hand-dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Love (2019 Film)
is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Takashi Miike. It tells the story of a boxer and a call girl who become unwittingly involved in a drug-smuggling scheme. The film premiered on 17 May 2019 in Directors' Fortnight, before being released in theaters in the United Kingdom and Japan in February 2020. Plot Leo, an up-and-coming boxer, works at a Chinese restaurant in Kabukichō, Tokyo as his day job. After taking a surprise punch and collapsing during a match, he is told by a doctor that he has an inoperable brain tumor and does not have long to live. Meanwhile, drug-addicted call girl Yuri is trying to pay off her father's debts. She is trapped by yakuza member Yasu and his girlfriend Julie in an apartment, which is used as one of the yakuza's drug-dealing hubs. In the same district of Tokyo, yakuza member Kase and corrupt cop Ōtomo plan a drug-smuggling scheme: they plan to steal drugs from Yasu and Julie, then blame it on Yuri, hoping her drug habit will be enough to con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakurako Konishi
(born 29 March 1998) is a Japanese actress from Saitama. Career Konishi first became interested in an acting career after watching Sion Sono's film ''Himizu'' in junior high school. She subsequently appeared in a self-produced film at university, and began to send her resume to entertainment agencies and attended auditions. After meeting film director Masaoki Hirota, she was cast as the heroine in his 2020 film , which became her first commercial film appearance. She was also cast as the heroine in Takashi Miike's ''First Love'', being chosen out of 3,000 applicants in auditions in 2019. She also appeared on the cover and the opening gravure of the manga magazine '' Young King'', for the 2 March 2020 issue, published by Shōnen Gahōsha. Konishi has stated that she is not affiliated with an entertainment agency, choosing instead to "prioritize the approaches she wants to develop in her work." She does however have a manager. In 2020 she won the 42nd Yokohama Film Festival's B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hio Miyazawa
is a Japanese-American actor and model. He was born in San Francisco, United States. He is the son of musician Kazufumi Miyazawa and TV personality Dionne Mitsuoka. Personal life His father, musician Kazufumi Miyazawa is Japanese and his mother, TV personality Dionne Mitsuoka is half-American, which makes him a quarter American. He was born in California and was raised in Tokyo. He speaks English and Japanese. He likes fishing, baseball, and is a big fan of Yokohama DeNA BayStars. He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz for two years then transferred to International Christian University where he graduated in March 2017. Career He started his career as an exclusive model for MEN'S NON-NO in 2015. His first acting role was in the TBS drama Dr.Storks (Kōnodori is a Japanese ''seinen'' manga series written and illustrated by Yū Suzunoki. It is serialized in ''Weekly Morning'' magazine published by Kodansha since July 26, 2012. It has 27 volumes compilin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Letter (2020 Film)
is a 2020 Japanese romantic drama film written and directed by Shunji Iwai, based on his own novel. It is Iwai's second film adaptation of the novel, following the 2018 Chinese film of the same name. The film stars Takako Matsu, Suzu Hirose, Nana Mori, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hideaki Anno and Masaharu Fukuyama. Cast * Takako Matsu as Yuri Kishibeno ** Nana Mori as young Yuri Kishibeno / Soyoka Kishibeno * Masaharu Fukuyama as Kyoshiro Otosaka ** Ryunosuke Kamiki as young Kyoshiro Otosaka * Suzu Hirose as Ayumi Tono / young Misaki Tono * Hideaki Anno as Sojiro Kishibeno * Nagi Furuya as Eito Kishibeno * Keiko Mizukoshi as Akiko Kishibeno * Hitoshi Komura as Shojo Hatoba * Keiichi Suzuki as Kokichi Tono * Midori Kiuchi as Junko Tono * Etsushi Toyokawa as Ato * Miho Nakayama is a Japanese singer and actress. She is affiliated with Big Apple Co., Ltd. Nakayama is nicknamed , and sometimes uses the pseudonyms or when she writes the lyrics. Biography History Nakayama was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Mori
is a Japanese actress and singer from Oita Prefecture, Japan. Biography Mori was born in Osaka on August 31, 2001 and brought up in Ōita. In 2016, she was scouted by the talent agency ARBRE. In 2021, she signed a contract with SMA (Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainme ... Artists). Filmography Film Television Radio work Discography Singles Accolades References External links * * 2001 births Living people Japanese actresses Japanese film actresses Japanese television actresses Japanese voice actresses Seiyu Award winners Voice actresses from Ōita Prefecture 21st-century Japanese actresses {{Japan-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Mothers
is a 2020 Japanese drama film directed by Naomi Kawase. It was selected to be shown at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on a 2015 novel by Mizuki Tsujimura. In June 2020, the Toronto International Film Festival announced that the film would be part of their 2020 festival. It was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Plot Satoko (Hiromi Nagasaku) and Kiyokazu (Arata Iura) have a kindergarten-age son, Asato (Reo Sato), whom they adopted as a newborn. One day they receive a call from one of his teachers telling them that a boy at his school has fallen off the jungle gym and claims Asato pushed him which Asato denies. The boy's mother requests reimbursement for their medical expenses. Satoko worries that her son may have inherited bad genes from his birth parents. In a flashback to a few years earlier, Satoko and Kiyokazu decide to start a family and learn that Kiyokazu has aspermia. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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