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90th Kinema Junpo Awards

The award ceremony for the oldest Japanese cinema competition took place on February 5 at the Bunkyo Civic Center, and the list of winners is:

Best Actor: (Destruction Babies)
Best Actress: (Her Love Boils Bath Water)
Best Supporting Actor: (The Long Excuse)
Best Supporting Actress: (Her Love Boils Bath Water)
Best Director:  (In This Corner of the World)
Best Director (Foreign): Clint Eastwood (Sully)
Best Screenplay: (Shin Godzilla)
Best New Actor: (Destruction Babies, Natsumi no Hotaru)
Best New Actress: (Oboreru Knife, Destruction Babies)

Best Ten Japanese Feature Films

In This Corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi)
Shin Godzilla (Shinji Higuchi/Hideaki Anno)
Harmonium (Koji Fukada)
Destruction Babies (Mariko Tetsuya)
Long Excuse (Miwa Nishikawa)
The Bride of Rip Van Winkle (Shunji Iwai)
Her Love Boils Bath Water (Ryota Nakano)
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Over the Fence (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
Anger (Lee Sang-il)

Best Ten Foreign Feature Films

Sully (Clint Eastwood/USA)
Carol (Todd Haynes/USA)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg/USA)
Trumbo (Jay Roach/USA)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhang Ke/China)
Son of Saul (László Nemes/Hungary)
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy/USA)
11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski/Poland, Ireland)
Brooklyn (John Crowley/United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland)
Room (Lenny Abrahamson/Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom)

About the author

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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