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Winners of the 48th Japanese Academy Awards

March 15, 2025
Panos Kotzathanasis
Japan Academy Award Winners 2025
All the awards of the 48th edition

The 48th Japan Academy Film Awards ceremony took place on March 14, 2025 at the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Tokyo on March 14, 2025, with free announcer Shinichi Hatori and actress Sakura Ando hosting the show.

“” continued gathering awards after the three it netted from Nikkan Sports, cemented his place on the top of the current directors, while highlighted that she is the next super star of the local industry. “Kingdom 4″ Return of the General” expectedly won the majority of the technical awards. Here is the full list

Best Picture

  • A Samurai in Time
Fantasia Film Review: A Samurai in Time (2024) by Junichi Yasuda

Best Animation Film

Anime Review: Look Back (2024) by Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Best Director

Best Screenplay

Film Review: Last Mile (2024) by Ayuko Tsukahara

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Film Review: A Girl Named Ann (2024) by Yu Irie

Best Supporting Actor

  • Takao Osawa – Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General
Film Review: Kingdom: Return of the General (2024) by Shinsuke Sato

Best Supporting Actress

  • Riho Yoshioka – Faceless

Best Music

  • Hiroko Sebu – Let’s Go Karaoke!

Best Cinematography

  • Akira Sako – Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General

Best Lighting Direction

  • Hiroyuki Kase – Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General

Best Art Direction

Best Sound Recording

  • Kazushiko Yokono – Kingdom 4: Return of the Great General

Best Film Editing

  • Junichi Yasuda – A Samurai in Time

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Oppenheimer

Newcomer of the Year

  • Asuka Saito – Oshi no Ko: The Final Act
  • Nagisa Shibuya – Sana: Let Me Hear
  • Anna Yamada – Faceless and Golden Kamuy
  • Eiji Akaso – What If Tokugawa Ieyasu Became Prime Minister? and 6 Lying University Students
  • Rihito Itagaki – Hakkenden: Fiction and Reality, Cells at Work!, and The Yin Yang Master Zero
  • Keitatsu Koshiyama – My
  • Jun Saito – Let’s Go Karaoke!
  • Shintaro Morimoto – Faceless

Special Award of Honour from the Association

  • Toshiyuki Nishida

Award for Distinguished Service from the Chairman

  • So Kuramoto
  • Daisaku Kimura
  • Kotaro Satomi
  • Misako Watanabe

Special Award from the Association

  • Hiroshi Ichimaru
  • Tsutomu Kawahigashi
  • Tatsuo Momose
  • Kensei Mori

Special Award from the Chairman

  • Noriko Ohara
  • Nobuyo Oyama

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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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