The 38th Nippon Academy Awards (2015)

Best Movie: Eien no Zero

Best Director: Yamazaki Takashi (Eien no Zero)

Best Leading Actor: Okada Junichi (Eien no Zero)

Best Leading Actress: Miyazawa Rie (Kami no Tsuki)

Best Supporting Actor: Okada Junichi (Higurashi no Ki)

Best Supporting Actress: Kuroki Haru (Chiisai Ouchi)

Best Script: Dohashi Akihiro (Chou Kousoku! Sankin Koutai)

Best Photography: Shibasaki Kozo (Eien no Zero)

Best Lighting: Ueda Nariyuki (Eien no Zero)

Best Artistic Direction: Jojo Anri (Eien no Zero)

Best Sound: Fujimoto Kenichi (Eien no Zero)

Best Editing: Miyajima Ryuji (Eien no Zero)

Best Music: Suo Yoshikazu (Maiko wa Lady)

Best Foreign Movie: Frozen

Best Animated Film: STAND BY ME Doraemon

Newcomer Awards: Ikematsu Sosuke, Kamishiraishi Mone, Komatsu Nana, Tosaka Hiroomi, Nonen Reina, Fukushi Sota

Popularity Award: Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Inferno / Rurouni Kenshin The Legend Ends / Okada Junichi (Eien no Zero)

Source: Eiga.com

The 88th Kinema Junpo Movie Awards (2014)

Top 10 Japanese movies
1) Soko nomi nite Hikari kagayaku

2) 0.5mm

3) Kami no Tsuki

4) Nono nanana noka

5) Bokutachi no Kazoku

6) Chiisai Ouchi

7) Watashi no Otoko

8) Hyakuen no Koi

9) Mizu no koe wo kiku

10) Nishino Yukihiko no Koi to Bouken / Higurashi no Ki

Top 10 Foreign Movies
1) Jersey Boys

2) Boyhood

3) A Touch of Sin

4) The Dust of Time

5) Blue Jasmine

6) Interstellar

7) The Dance of Reality

8) Inside Llewyn Davis

9) The Wolf of Wall Street

10) Rush

Individual Awards
Best Leading Actor: Ayano Go (Shirayuki Hime Satsujin Jiken / Soko nomi nite Hikari kagayaku)

Best Leading Actress: Ando Sakura (Hyakuen no Koi / 0.5mm)

Best Supporting Actor: Ikematsu Sosuke (Ai no Uzu / Umi wo Kanjiru Toki / Otona Drop / Kami no Tsuki / Vancouver no Asahi / Bokutachi no Kazoku)

Best Supporting Actress: Kobayashi Satomi (Kami no Tsuki)

Best Male Newcomer: Higashide Masahiro (Ao Ha Ride / Kiseijuu / Crows Explode / 0.5mm)

Best Female Newcomer: Kadowaki Mugi (Ai no Uzu / Shanty Days 365-nichi / Yamikin Ushijima-kun Part 2)

Best Director: Oh Mibo (Soko nomi nite Hikari kagayaku)

Best Scriptwriter: Takada Ryo (Soko nomi nite Hikari kagayaku)

Best Director for a Foreign Film: Clint Eastwood (Jersey Boys)

The 27th Nikkansports Movie Awards / Ishihara Yujiro Award (2014)

Best Movie: Eien no Zero

Best Director: Yamazaki Takashi (Eien no Zero / STAND BY ME Doraemon)

Best Leading Actor: Okada Junichi (Eien no Zero / Higurashi no Ki)

Best Leading Actress: Miyazawa Rie (Kami no Tsuki)

Best Supporting Actor: Ikematsu Sosuke (Umi wo Kanjiru toki / Kami no Tsuki / Bokutachi no Kazoku)

Best Supporting Actress: Hirosue Ryoko (Omoi Nokoshi)

Best Newcomer: Nounen Rena (Hot Road)

Best Foreign Film: Frozen

Ishihara Yujiro Award: Rurouni Kenshin

Ishihara Yujiro Newcomer: Higashide Masahiro (Kiseijuu / CROWS EXPLODE)

Ishihara Yujiro Special Contribution Award: Hashimoto Seizo

Special Award: Takakura Ken

Source: Nikkansports

The 39th Hochi Movie Awards 2014

Best Japanese Movie: 0.5mm

Best Director: Koizumi Takashi (Higurashi no Ki)

Best Leading Actor: Okada Junichi (Eien no Zero)

Best Leading Actress: Miyazawa Rie (Kami no Tsuki)

Best Supporting Actor: Tsugawa Masahiko (0.5mm)

Best Supporting Actress: Oshima Yuko (Kami no Tsuki)

Best Newcomer: Komatsu Nana (Kawaki) / Tosaka Hiroomi (Hot Road) / Nishida Masafumi (Onodera no Otouto Onodera no Ane)

Best Foreign Film: Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood)

Special Award: Frozen / Takakura Ken

Source: Yomiuri Hochi

Yakusho Koji & Okada Junichi to star in movie "Higurashi no Ki"

Yakusho Koji and Okada Junichi will be teaming up in the period movie "Higurashi no Ki" based on the 146th Naoki Award winner novel by Hamuro Rin which sold 200,000 copies to date. They will be joined by co-stars Harada Mieko and Horikita Maki who plays Yakusho's wife and daughter respectively. This is the first time Yakusho and Okada are working together and they both commented that they are looking forward to the filming. As for Horikita and Okada, they last worked together in the 2003 movie "COSMIC RESCUE" which also happens to be her debut movie.

The movie is set in the later part of the Edo era where Okada plays the character Danno Shozaburo who had been involved in a bloodshed incident with his longtime friend but was left off the hook and did not get punished. In return, a minister of the feudal lord orders Danno to keep tabs on Toda Shuukoku (Yakusho), a man who had been ordered to kill himself three years later after he was caught committing adultery with a nobleman's concubine seven years ago. As Shuukoku used to be a feudal lord and had been tasked to finish the family register of the aristocrats, Shozaburo's mission is to make sure Shuukoku doesn't run away with the secrets he knows and he has to kill him and his wife Orie (Harada), son Ikutarou and daughter Kaoru (Horikita) if Shuukoku tries to escape. While living in confinement with Shuukoku's family, Shozaburo happens to see Shuukoku's diary i.e. Higurashi no Ki and is touched by the latter's dedication to finishing the family register despite being on death row so he decides to find out the truth behind the adultery case 7 years ago.

Filming is scheduled to be done from late April to late June at 10 different places in Iwate and Nagano Prefectures. The filming of the other scenes will be completed by end September and the movie is due to be released in 2014.

Source: Movie Walker