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25th Japan Film Professional Awards
The was the 25th edition of the ''Japan Film Professional Awards''. Films of 2015 which had not already won a major domestic film award were eligible. The ceremony took place on May 3, 2016, at Theatre Shinjuku in Tokyo. Awards *Best Film: ''Bakuman'' *Best Director: Shinya Tsukamoto ('' Fires on the Plain'') *Best Actress: Mikako Tabe ('' Piece of Cake'', ''Midnight Diner'') *Best Actor: Shota Sometani ('' Kabukicho Love Hotel'', ') *Best Actor: (', ', '' Jōen no Shima: Nureta Nettaiya'') *New Director: (') *Emerging Producer: Seigo Fukada, Hitoshi Ono (''Three Stories of Love'') *Special Achievement: Akiko Ashizawa (For ''Journey to the Shore'' and her many years of cinematography.) 10 best films # ''Bakuman'' () # '' Fires on the Plain'' (Shinya Tsukamoto) # ' ( Masanori Tominaga) # ''Gonin Saga'' ( Takashi Ishii) # ''Happy Hour'' (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) # ''Journey to the Shore'' (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) # ' (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) # ''Pieta in the Toilet'' () # ' (Mipo O) Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tokyo
Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring Prefectures of Japan, prefectures, is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with 41 million residents . Lying at the head of Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is part of the Kantō region, on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. It is Japan's economic center and the seat of the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in Western Tokyo, its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands. Although most of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Akiko Ashizawa
is a Japanese cinematographer and photographer. Career Starting in 8mm film and pink film, Ashizawa eventually became an assistant to the cinematographers Hideo Itō and Takayo Oshikiri. She turned independent in 1982 and has photographed the films of directors such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kunitoshi Manda, and Shō Igarashi, in addition to doing the camera for TV commercials and documentaries. She has also published several collections of her photographs. Awards In 2012, she won the award for best cinematography for '' Chronicle of My Mother'' at the Mainichi Film Awards. In 2018, she was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon by the Japanese government. Filmography * '' Naked Blood'' (1996) * '' Unloved'' (2001) * ''Loft'' (2005) * ''Retribution'' (2006) * ''Tokyo Sonata'' (2008) * ''Kyōfu'' (2010) * '' Chronicle of My Mother'' (2011) * ''Real'' (2013) * '' Tamako in Moratorium'' (2013) * ''Journey to the Shore'' (2015) * ''Sayonara'' (2015) * ''Creepy'' (2016) * ''Before We Vanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2015 Film Awards
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Daigo Matsui
is a Japanese screenwriter and film director. Early life Matsui was born in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, on November 2, 1985. His family consists of his mother, a columnist who works mainly in Kyushu, his father, and an older brother. Filmography Film *''Afro Tanaka'' (2012, director) *''Daily Lives of High School Boys'' (2013, writer, director) *''Sweet Poolside'' (2014, writer, director) *''Our Huff and Puff Journey'' (2014, writer, director) *''Wonderful World End'' (2014, writer, director) *''Japanese Girls Never Die'' (2016, director) *''Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops'' (2017, director) *''You, Your, Yours'' (2018, writer, director) *''#HandballStrive'' (2020, writer, director) *''Remain in Twilight'' (2021, writer, director) *''The Supporting Actors: The Movie'' (2021, director) *''Just Remembering'' (2022, writer, director) *''Hand'' (2022) *''Undead Lovers'' (2024) *''Rewrite'' (2025) *''Meets the World'' (2025) TV series *''Twin Spica'' (2009, writer) *''A Day-O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Our Huff And Puff Journey
is a Japanese Drama comedy film directed in 2016 by Daigo Matsui. The Movie featured in the Melbourne International Film Festival The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1952 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world following the founding of the Venic .... Plot Four girls go on a journey, following their favorite band. The girls make the journey from Fukuoka to Tokyo, to see the band they worship, CreepHyp perform. They record the journey with a handheld camera, the film covers the drama associated with the journey."Our Huff and Puff Journey" Hawaii Film Festival http://program.hiff.org/films/detail/our_huff_and_puff_journey_2015 Cast * Sonoko Inoue as Ichinose * Reika Oozeki * Saku Mayama * Toko Miura * CreepHyp * Sosuke Ikematsu References External links * * {{Daigo Matsui 2016 films Films directed by Daigo Matsui Japanese comedy-dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mipo O
is a Japanese-born Korean film director, screenwriter, and commercial director. Her name is also romanized Mipo Oh. Career After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts Visual Concept Planning Department, O began working as a screenwriter under director Nobuhiko Obayashi. She soon expanded to directing, and her third short film ''Eye'' won a prize at the Short Shorts Film Festival in 2002, while her short film ''Grandmother'' won the grand prize in the Digital Shorts category of Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2005, she wrote her first feature-length screenplay, ''The Sakai’s Happiness'', which won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award, and the following year, she directed her first feature-length film based on this screenplay. In 2010, she wrote and directed '' Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!'', which played at the Busan International Film Festival and took the grand prize for the Kaneto Shindo Awards, awarded to promising directors by a committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pieta In The Toilet
is a 2015 Japanese youth drama film directed by Daishi Matsunaga. It was released in Japan on June 6, 2015. Cast * Yojiro Noda as Hiro Sonoda * Hana Sugisaki Reception On ''Film Business Asia ''Film Business Asia'' was a film trade magazine based in Hong Kong. The magazine was created in 2010 by Patrick Frater, former journalist for '' Variety'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and ''Screen International'' and Stephen Cremin, co-founder o ...'', Derek Elley gave the film a 6 out of 10, calling it an "interesting drama of an offbeat friendship between a dying artist and a schoolgirl". References External links * 2015 drama films 2015 films Japanese drama films 2010s Japanese films 2010s Japanese-language films Films produced by Kazutoshi Wadakura Japanese-language drama films {{2010s-drama-film-stub ja:トイレのピエタ#映画 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic, author, actor, and a former professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (2005-2023). Noted for his psychological films that often focus on ambiguous narratives and on their characters' inner turmoils and quests for meaning and connections, he is best known for his contributions to psychological horror and Japanese horror, notably his acclaimed 1997 film '' Cure'', although he has also worked in a variety of other genres. While most of his work has been in Japanese, two of his films, '' Daguerrotype'' (2016) and '' Serpent's Path'' (2024; a remake of his own 1998 film of the same name), were in French. Early life and education Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa started making films about his life in high school. He studied at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under the guidance of prominent film critic Shigehiko Hasumi, where he began making 8mm films. He is not related to director Akira Kurosawa. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. An alumnus of the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he started gaining attention in his home country with the graduate film ''Passion'' (2008). Hamaguchi first gained international recognition with the film ''Happy Hour (2015 Japanese film), Happy Hour'' (2015) and continued with ''Asako I & II'' (2018). In 2021, he released two films, ''Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy'' and ''Drive My Car (film), Drive My Car''; for the latter, he received Academy Awards nominations for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, and accepted the award for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film. He is the third Japanese director to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. In 2023, he released two films ''Evil Does Not Exist'' and ''Gift.'' Career After gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Happy Hour (2015 Japanese Film)
is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi. Plot The film follows the lives and loves of four middle-class, thirty-seven-year-old women who are friends and who live in Kobe: unemployed Jun, housewife Sakurako, divorced nurse Akari, and married arts administrator Fumi. After attending a seminar by a New Age communications guru, Ukai, Jun casually reveals that she has been having an affair with a younger man and plans to divorce her husband. The other women are shocked, with some more hurt than others that Jun kept so many secrets from them. However, over time, especially during a vacation that Jun plans, they rekindle and re-contextualize their bonds with each other. The three friends attend Jun's court case to support her, which affects their perception of their own lives and relationships in intertwining stories. Free-spirited and independent Jun is married to a biologist, Kohei, who strongly opposes the divorce and calmly believes that he can convince her to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Takashi Ishii (film Director)
was a Japanese , and artist. He directed several '' pinku eiga'' erotic films, but his most notable feature was the 1995 crime thriller starring Takeshi Kitano
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Gonin Saga
is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Takashi Ishii. It is a sequel to '' Gonin'' and stars Masahiro Higashide and Masanobu Andō. Cast * Masahiro Higashide as Hayato Hisamatsu *Kenta Kiritani as Daisuke Ogoshi *Anna Tsuchiya as Asami Kikuchi * Tasuku Emoto as Keiichi Morisawa *Masanobu Andō as Seiji Shikine * Jinpachi Nezu as Kaname Hizu * Rila Fukushima as Yoichi * Terry Ito as Takamasa Shikine *Harumi Inoue as Yasue Hisamatsu *Lily as Katsuko Ogoshi * Wakana Matsumoto as Yurika *Shun Sugata as Yuzuru Matsuura * Shunya Isaka as Masayuki Kuroki *Shingo Tsurumi as Shigeru Hisamatsu, Hayato's father * Kōichi Satō (special appearance) as Mikihiko Bandai *Naoto Takenaka is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi. He is also known as the voice of Samuel L. ... as Myojin References External links * * 2015 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
