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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

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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