The was held on 1 February 2004 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards

* Best Film: '' Vibrator'' * Best Actor:

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. He is also the bassist and lead singer of the Japanese ...

– ''Sayonara, Kuro'', ''

Dragon Head is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in ''Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1994 and 1999 and collected in ten ''tankōbon'' volumes. It was licensed in English by Tokyopop, wi ...

'' * Best Actress:

Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include '' Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''Caterpillar'' (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performan ...

– '' Vibrator'', ''

Akame 48 Waterfalls is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Genjiro Arato. It is based on the novel of the same name by that was serialized in Bungakukai from November 1996 to October 1998. Awards and nominations 46th Blue Ribbon Awards * Won: Best Film * Won: Best Ac ...

'' * Best Supporting Actor:

Nao Ōmori , sometimes credited as Nao Ohmori or Nao Omori, is a Japanese actor. He was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2004 Yokohama Film Festival. Career Omori starred in Takashi Miike's ''Ichi the Killer''. He co-starred with Shinobu Teraji ...

– '' Vibrator'', ''

'' * Best Supporting Actress:

Kimiko Yo is a Japanese actress. She was given Best Supporting Actress awards at the 2004 and the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival ceremonies. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize (film), Japan Academy ...

– ''Sayonara, Kuro'', ''Hotel Hibiscus'', ''Gūzen ni mo Saiaku na Shōnen'' * Best Director:

Ryūichi Hiroki is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for ''800 Two Lap Runners''. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Biography ''Pink ...

– '' Vibrator'' * Best New Director:

Miwa Nishikawa is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Nishikawa received a degree in literature from the University of Waseda, and after working on several independent films as well as catching the eye of Hirokazu Kore-eda, her film making career took off ...

– ''Hebi Ichigo'' * Best Screenplay:

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Career Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film '' W's Traged ...

– '' Vibrator'' * Best Cinematography: Norimichi Kasamatsu – ''Sayonara, Kuro'', ''

'', '' My House'' * Best Art Direction:

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 thr ...

– ''Jōhatsu Tabinikki'' * Best New Talent: **

Masami Nagasawa is a common Japanese given name and can be given to either sex. Possible writings *惟美, meaning "Considerate beauty" *真己, meaning "True self" or "Truth, Snake" *昌美, meaning "Prosperous beauty" *雅美, meaning "Gracious beauty" *� ...

– ''

Like Asura is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Yoshimitsu Morita. At the 27th Japan Academy Prize it won three awards and received ten other nominations. The film is a remake of the TV mini series Ashura no Gotoku on NHK. Synopsis The film follows four ...

'', ''Robokon'' **

Hiroyuki Miyasako is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, voice actor and plays the boke in Ameagari Kesshitai. His partner is Tōru Hotoharu. He is represented by Yoshimoto Kogyo. Miyasako won the award for Best Supporting Actor at the 28th Hochi F ...

– ''Hebi Ichigo'', ''13 Kaidan'' **

Satomi Ishihara , better known by her stage name , is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Biography Satomi Ishihara was born on December 24, 1986, in Tokyo. She is of blood type A, and her height is 157 cm. Satomi began her acting profession in 2003 at the ag ...

''Watashi no Guranpa'' * Special Prize:

Hideo Onchi was a Japanese film and television director. Career Born in Tokyo, Onchi graduated from Keio University and joined the Toho studios. He debuted as a director with '' Wakai ōkami'' (1961), and first made a name for himself directing youth fi ...

– ''Warabi no Kou'' – For this film and for his career.

Best 10

# '' Vibrator'' # '' Doing Time'' # ''

Zatōichi is a fictional character created by Japanese novelist Kan Shimozawa. He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s). He first appeared in the 1948 essay , part of Shimozawa's ''Futokoro Techō'' serie ...

'' # ''

A Snake of June ''A Snake of June'' ( ja, 六月の蛇, ''Rokugatsu no hebi'') is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. His seventh film, it is notable for its monochrome blue cinematography tinted in post production. It won the Kinematrix Film Awa ...

'' # '' My House'' # ''

'' # '' Sayonara, Kuro'' # '' Robokon'' # '' Hebi Ichigo'' :runner-up. ''

Hotel Hibiscus A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...

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