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1992 in film The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1992 by worldwide gross are as follows: Events * August 24 – Production begins on '' Jurassic Park''. Awards 1992 wide-rel ...

. The ceremony took place on March 27, 1993, at Cinema Argo Shinjuku in

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Awards

*Best Film: '' Hikinige Family'' *Best Director:

Hideyuki Hirayama is a Japanese film director. His theatrical debut was the film ''Maria's Stomach'' in 1990. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for ''The Games Teachers Play'' in 1992. In 1995, ''School Ghost Stories'' was a big hit and made ...

('' The Games Teachers Play'') *Best Actress:

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(''Baku'') *Best Actor:

Shirō Sano is a Japanese actor. Career Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Sano lived in Tokyo and Matsue, Shimane as a child, before returning to Tokyo to enter art school. He joined several theatrical troupes, including Jurō Kara's Jōkyō Gekijō. He had h ...

('' Kurenai Monogatari'') *Best New Director: Tadafumi Tomioka ('' Wangan Bad Boy Blue'') *Special:

Atsushi Yamatoya was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. His son is a fellow screenwriter and race horse owner . Life and career Yamatoya was born in Horonaicho, Mikasa, Hokkaido and raised in Tokyo. He graduated from the First Department of Litera ...

10 best films

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Tsutomu Makiya Tsutomu is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings ''Tsutomu can be written using different kanji characters. Here are some examples: *勉, "make effort" *務, "affairs" *務武, "affairs, warrior" *勤, "diligence" *努, "strive" Th ...

Yuji Nakae is a Japanese film director who specializes in films set in Okinawa, featuring Okinawan music, language, themes and atmosphere. He shared the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his debut film, ''Pineapple Tours'', which was an omnib ...

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) # '' Wangan Bad Boy Blue'' ( Tadafumi Tomioka) # '' Kurenai Monogatari'' (

Toshiharu Ikeda (23 February 1951 – 26 December 2010) 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''. Life and career Ear ...

) # '' Usureyuku Kioku no Nakade'' ( Kazuyuki Shinoda) # ''3 Gatsu no Lion'' ( Hitoshi Yasaki) # '' Arifureta Ai ni Kansuru Chōsa'' ( Kōji Enokido) # '' Gunkan Musashi'' ( Masami Tezuka) # '' The Guard from Underground'' (

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific ...

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1993 in Japanese cinema Japan Film Professional Awards March 1993 events in Asia