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37th Yokohama Film Festival

The award ceremony was held on February 7th in the Yokohama Kannai Hall and the winners were:

Best Film: (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Best Director: Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister) Ryosuke Hashiguchi (Three stories of Love)
Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial Best New Director: Daishi Matsunaga(Pieta in the Toilet)
Best Screenplay: Shin Adachi (100 Yen Love, Obon Brothers)
Best Cinematographer: Mikiya Takemoto (Our Little Sister)
Best Actor: Masatoshi Nagase (Sweet Red Bean Paste) Kiyohiko Shibukawa (Obon Brothers, Areno)
Best Actress: Haruka Ayase (Our Little Sister)
Best Supporting Actor: Ken Mitsuishi (Obon Brothers, Three stories of Love)
Best Supporting Actress: Aoba Kawai (Obon Brothers, Kabukicho Love Hotel)
Best New Talent:Suzu Hirose (Our Little Sister) Hana Sugisaki (Pieta in the Toilet, The Pearls of the Stone Man) Ryoko Fujino (Solomon's Perjury)
Special Jury Prize: The cast and staff of Bakuman
Special Grand Prize: Kirin Kiki

Top Ten Movies:

1. Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2. Three stories of Love (Ryosuke Hashiguch)
3. 100 Yen Love (Masaharu Take)
4. Bakuman (Hitoshi Ohne)
5. Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto)
6. Sweet Red Bean Paste (Naomi Kawase)
7. Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
8. Pieta in the Toilet (Daishi Matsunaga)
9. Obon Brothers (Akira Ohsaki)
10.Kabukichô Love Hotel (Ryuichi Hiroki)
Runner up: Flying Colours (Nobuhiro Doi)

The 73-year-old Kirin Kiki receives the Specila Prize of the festival

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Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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