The is the 1st edition of the '' Japan Film Professional Awards''. It awarded the best of 1991 in film. The ceremony took place on March 13, 1992, at Shinjuku Cine Pathos in

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Awards

*Best Film: '' Manatsu no Chikyū'' *Best Director: Osamu Murakami ('' Manatsu no Chikyū'') *Best Actress: Tomoko Nakajima (''

Dance till Tomorrow is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Yamamoto. It is a romantic comedy which details the life of Suekichi Terayama, a student who will inherit a fortune when he graduates from college and gets married with unexpected ...

'') *Best Actor: Masahiro Motoki ('' Asobi no Jikan wa Owaranai'') *Best New Director: Sadaaki Haginiwa ('' Asobi no Jikan wa Owaranai'') *Special: Shozin Fukui ('' 964 Pinocchio'')

10 best films

# '' Manatsu no Chikyū'' ( Osamu Murakami) # '' Asobi no Jikan wa Owaranai'' ( Sadaaki Haginiwa) # ''

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Itsumichi Isomura is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 20th Yokohama Film Festival The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personne ...

) # '' Skinless Night'' (

Rokurō 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''. Life and career Early career - Pink film ...

) # ''Misty'' ( Toshiharu Ikeda) # ''

World Apartment Horror is a 1991 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with a screenplay by Otomo and Keiko Nobumoto from a story by Satoshi Kon. The film stars Sabu (credited as Hiroki Tanaka) as a yakuza henchman who encounters the language barrier ...

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Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator and film director. He is best known as the creator of '' Akira'', in terms of both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation. He was decorated a ''Chevalier'' of t ...

) # ''

Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese animated science fiction action thriller film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo and written by Katsuhiro Otomo. The animation for ''Roujin Z'' was produced by A.P.P.P. in association with other companies including Movic, Sony M ...

'' ( Hiroyuki Kitakubo) # '' 964 Pinocchio'' ( Shozin Fukui) # '' Hiruko the Goblin'' ( Shinya Tsukamoto) # ''

Zeiram , stylized as ''ZËIЯAM'' (originally marketed in English as ''Zeram''), is a 1991 Japanese science fiction film directed by Keita Amemiya. The film stars Yūko Moriyama as an alien bounty hunter named Iria, who comes to Earth to do battle wit ...

'' ( Keita Amemiya)

References

External links

* {{Japanese Professional Movie Awards Japan Film Professional Awards 1992 in Japanese cinema Japan Film Professional Awards March 1992 events in Asia