There are Oscars in the United States, and there are also Oscars in Japan, and the Japan Academy Awards (日本アカデミー Awards) are the most important film awards in Japan, also known as the "Japanese Oscars", which is an honor that Japanese filmmakers attach great importance to.
This year's Japanese Oscars ceremony was held tonight, and this year's nomination list is full of big names, so the award ceremony is also star-studded.
Jun Buya takes a look at the newly released list of winners and see which Japanese filmmakers and films have been recognized in the past year.
Newcomer Award
Hattori Shukatsu "Midnight Swan"
Sugata's "The Morning Dawn Is Coming"
Mori Nanaku "The Last Letter"
Kenshi Okada, "Hope", "The Legacy of Dr. Death", "Yayoi, March - 30 Years of Love for You-"
Opin Dai and "Mother"
Nagase Ryo "Speeding Otaku"
The Newcomer Award is special, and the nomination list is announced when it is announced, and there are many winners.
Best Supporting Actor Ken Watanabe
List of nominees
Shohei Uno, "Voice of Sin"
Tsumabuki Akira "Asada Family! 》
Ling Narita, "Poor Rat Dreams of Cheese"
Hoshino Gen' Voice of Sin
Ken Watanabe, "50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
The winner was veteran actor Ken Watanabe, who won the Best Supporting Actor Award twice, the first time he won the Best Supporting Actor Award, and he is also a Japanese actor who is active in the world and has been nominated for the American Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Best Supporting Actress Award Kuroki Hua
Tokuko Eguchi," "Strange Talk of the Murderous House"
KurokiWa "Asada's House! 》
Kumiko Goto, "The Story of Injiro: Welcome Home"
Kaoru Momoi "Never Shot"
Narimi Yasuda, "50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
The winner was Kuroki, who starred in "Asada's House", and she played the leading role in the film.
Kuroki Hua ushered in her 31st birthday this week, she is already in her early 30s has won numerous awards, three nominations for the Japanese Olympic female supporting actress all won the award, just debuted when she won the Best Newcomer of the Japanese Olympic Games, her biggest glory is in 2014 to get the Berlin International Film Festival (one of the three major film festivals in the world) is now missing a Japanese Olympic film queen (has been nominated twice).
Next month, Kuroki's partner Toyo Takeno's new drama "A Tortured Crow" will be broadcast.
Best Actor Award
Kusanagi
Oguri Shun "Voice of Sin"
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi "Midnight Swan"
Sato, Hiroichi, Fukusaki 50 Dead
Masanori Sugata, 线
Kazuya Ninomiya," Asada Family! 》
This year's competition for Japanese and Austrian film emperors is particularly fierce, and the voice of the old drama bone Sato Hiroshi is relatively high.
Shoko Sugata, who starred in the love movie "Line", appeared in the shape of a bubble noodle head, which is the second consecutive year that he was nominated for Best Actor and won an award in 2018 for "Ah, Wilderness".
▲ Sugata Shoko took a group photo with last year's movie emperor Matsuzaka Momori in the background, and the two played brothers in "Miracle"
There is also a super popular Oguri Shun in China, nominated for the movie "Voice of Sin", which is different from the usual domineering image, and this time he appears wearing glasses.
This is also the first time that Oguri has been nominated for the Japanese Olympic Games in 23 years of his debut. (Oguri mainly starred in TV dramas, so he has not yet won a film award.)
Junis acting actor Kazuya Ninomiya, who was nominated for "Asada Family", was his second nomination for The Japanese Olympic Film Emperor, and the last time he successfully won an award for "If You Live with Your Mother" directed by Yoji Yamada.
The winner of the award was Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, who had a huge breakthrough performance in the movie "Midnight Swan", playing a transgender person, wearing a wig, painting heavy makeup, wearing a short skirt trench coat, and successfully playing a beautiful but sad transgender dancer with a smile.
Ghost talent director Yuan Ziwen shouted directly after reading it: "Cao Yigang is too powerful, completely conquered by him, as the plot progresses, I almost forgot that the person on the big screen is Kusanagi Gang." ”
Kusanagi is a former member of SMAP, who has won the Japanese Drama Academy Award for Best Actor 6 times in the past, and after leaving Janis in 2016, he was banned by his former owner and could not star in TV dramas, until this year, he slowly lifted the ban and began to appear in NHK TV series.
In recent years, the 3 former SMAP members who left the J family mainly made movies, and all three of them have been shortlisted for the "Top Ten Movies of the Year".
Best Actress Award
Masami Nagasawa
Komatsu Nana, 线
Hiromi Yongsaku "The Morning Dawn Is Coming"
Masami Nagasawa, "Trick the World JP Princess Chapter", "MOTHER Mother"
Reward Chieko's "The Story of Injiro: Welcome Home"
Suzu Hirose "Try to Die Once"
This year's 5 film nominees include four generations of Actresses from Japan.
After being nominated for the film for the first time, Komatsu was nominated for Best Supporting Actress last year and won Best Newcomer in the past.
The 23-year-old Hirose Suzu is the youngest, and his acting skills are recognized by Kore-eda and Bong Joon-ho.
The 51-year-old Hiromi Nagasaka has a childlike face, has won best actress and best supporting actress awards in the past, and her starring role in "Morning Dawn Is Coming" (directed by Naomi Kawase) is the work that represented Japan at the American Oscars this year.
The eldest, Chieko Doubi, was a famous actress of the Showa era and the royal heroine of director Yoji Yamada, whose representative works include the "Happy Yellow Handkerchief" and "The Tale of Injiro Monogatari" series.
The winner was Masami Nagasawa.
This is the first time that Masami Nagasawa has won an award after being nominated for 4 times, and Ma Sauce is also a tear on the stage.
Masami Nagasawa achieved a Grand Slam at the Japanese Oscars.
He won best newcomer for the 2003 film "Robot Race", and won best supporting actress in the second year with "Calling Love in the Center of the World", becoming the youngest supporting actress award winner in the history of Japan and Austria.
Last year, she won the Supporting Actress Award again with "The King of the World".
Previously, she was nominated for three times for "Tears", "Peach Blossom Period" and "Walking Invaders", but all of them returned home, and this year finally won the award with "Mother".
In "Mother", Ma Sauce played an evil mother, which was introduced by Ya jun before, poking at the right "The Breakthrough of the Goddess, Masami Nagasawa played the evil mother of depravity and indulgence"
Best Animated Film
Devil's Blade Infinite Train
Violet Eternal Garden Theater Edition
"Pupel of Chimney Town"
Jose and the Tiger and the Fish
Doraemon: Walk with Me 2
The Best Animation Award gave the cumulative box office of more than 40 billion yen, refreshing the highest-grossing film in the history of Japanese films for 18 years, "Devil's Blade Infinite Train".
This film is still difficult to say if it is not released in China, and a DVD will be released in Japan on June 16.
Best Film
Midnight Swan
《Asada Family》
The Tale of Injiro: Welcome Back
The Voice of Sin
"50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
Eiji Uchida's film Midnight Swan, written and directed, won best picture of the year. The film focuses on the marginalized group, transgender people in the LGBT, and the film has been highly praised by all walks of life in Japan.
Other awards
Best Director: Setaro Wakamatsu, "50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
Best Screenplay: Akiko Nogi, "Voice of Sin"
Best Cinematography: "The 50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
Best Artist: "50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
Best Recording: "The 50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
Best Lighting: "The 50 Dead Men of Fukushima"
Best Editing: The Tale of Injiro
Best Music: Devil's Blade, Infinity Train
Topic Award: "Ghost Blade Infinite Train"
Foreign Language Film Award: "Parasite"