Winners of the 10th TAMA Movie Awards (2018)

Best Movie
Manbiki Kazoku
Netemo Sametemo

Special Award
Mori no iru basho
Camera wo tomeruna!

Best Actor
Higashide Masahiro (Netemo sametemo / Kiku to Guillotine / Panku Samurai, Kirarete Soro / OVER DRIVE / Yochou Sanposuru Shinryakusha)
Matsuzaka Toori (Korou no Chi / Shounen / Funouhan / Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Actress
Ando Sakura (Manbiki Kazoku / DESTINY Kamakura Monogatari)
Matsuoka Mayu (Katte ni furuetero / Manbiki Kazoku / Chihayafuru - Musubi - / blank13)

Best New Director
Imaizumi Rikiya (Pan to bus to nidome no hatsukoi)
Miyake Sho (Kimi no tori wa utaeru)

Best Newcomer Actor
Yoshimura Kaito (Mori no iru basho / Akuma / Saraba Seijaku / Vigilante)
Yoshizawa Ryo (River's Edge / Neko wa dakumono / Gintama 2 Okite wa yaburu tame ni koso aru / Marmalade Boy / Aku to kame no ruuru / Leon / Saiki Kusuo no Sainan)

Best Newcomer Actress
Fukagawa Mai (Pan to bus to nidome no hatsukoi)
Ito Sairi (Enokida Bouekidou / Pan to bus to nidome no hatsukoi / Netemo sametemo / blank13)

Source: Natalie

Winners of the 27th Nihon Eiga Professional Taisho (2017)

This award is decided by a panel of judges made up of movie directors, scriptwriters, producers, PR personnel and critics where they vote for the best works and actors for the year. This year's prize giving ceremony will be held at Theatre Shinjuku on 26 April 2018:

Best 10 Movies
1) Katte ni furuetero
2) Osanako warera ni umare
3) Kanojo no jinsei wa machigai janai
4) Gukoroku
5) Vigilante
6) Bangkok Nites
7) Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi
8) MUKOKU
9) Hikari
10) Kabocha to Mayonnaise

Best Movie: Katte ni furuetero

Best Leading Actress: Matsuoka Mayu - Katte ni furuetero

Best Leading Actor: Asano Tadanobu - Osanako warera ni umare

Best Director: Hiroki Ryuuichi - Kanojo no jinsei wa machigai janai

Best Newcomer Director: Ishikawa Kei

Best Female Newcomer: Takiuchi Kumi - Kanojo no jinsei wa machigai janai

Best Male Newcomer: Murakami Nijirou - MUKOKU

Audience's Award: Aa, Kouya

Source: Natalie

Winners of the 41st Nippon Academy Awards 2018

Best Movie: Sandome no Satsujin

Best Animation: Yoru wa mijikashi arukeyo otome

Best Director: Koreeda Hirokazu - Sandome no Satsujin

Best Scriptwriter: Koreeda Hirokazu - Sandome no Satsujin

Best Leading Actor: Suda Masaki - Aa, Kouya

Best Leading Actress: Aoi Yu - Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi

Best Supporting Actor: Yakusho Koji - Sandome no Satsujin

Best Supporting Actress: Hirose Suzu - Sandome no Satsujin

Best Foreign Movie: La La Land

Newcomer Awards
Nakajo Ayami - Chia Dan ~ Joshikousei ga chiadansu de zenbei seihashichatta honto no hanashi ~
Hamabe Minami - Kimi no suizou wo tabetai
Kitamura Takumi - Kimi no suizou wo tabetai
Takeuchi Ryoma - Teiichi no Kuni

Source: Natalie

Winners of the Osaka Cinema Festival 2018

Individual Awards
Best Leading Actor: Suda Masaki (Hibana / Aa, Kouya / Teiichi no Kuni) / Kiritani Kenta (Hibana / Vigilante)

Best Leading Actress: Aoi Yu (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Supporting Actor: Yusuke Santa Maria (Aa, Kouya)

Best Supporting Actress: Tanaka Rena (Osanako warera ni umare)

Best Male Newcomer: Kitamura Takumi (Kimi no suizou wo tabetai)

Best Female Newcomer: Ishibashi Shizuka (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Winners of the 39th Yokohama Film Festival (2017)

Best Movie: Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da

Best Director: Shiraishi Kazuya (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi / Mesunekotachi)

Best Newcomer Director: Ishikawa Kei (Gukoroku) / Morigaki Yukihiro (Ojiichan, shinjattatte)

Best Script: Ishii Yuya (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Best Cinematography: Kamakari Youichi (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Best Leading Actor: Ikematsu Sousuke (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Best Leading Actress: Aoi Yu (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Supporting Actor: Shiomi Sansei (Outrage Saishusho) / Matsuzaka Toori (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Supporting Actress: Usuda Asami (Gukoroku) / Matsumoto Wakana (Gukoroku)

Best Newcomer: Ishibashi Shizuka (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da) / Kishii Yukino (Ojiichan, shinjattatte)

Judges' Special Award: Romance Porno Reboot Project

Special Award: Nishida Toshiyuki

Source: Crank In

Winners of the 60th Blue Ribbon Awards (2017)

Best Japanese Movie: Aa, Kouya

Best Foreign Movie: Hidden Figures

Best Director: Shiraishi Kazuya (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Leading Actor: Abe Sadao (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Leading Actress: Aragaki Yui (Mix)

Best Supporting Actor: Yusuke Santa Maria (Aa, Kouya / Dorobo Yakusha)

Best Supporting Actress: Saito Yuki (Sandome no Satsujin)

Best Newcomer: Ishibashi Shizuka (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Winners of the 91st Kinema Junpo Best Ten & Individual Awards (2017)

Top 10 Japanese movies
1) Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da
2) HANAGATAMI
3) Aa, Kouya Parts 1 & 2
4) Osanako warera ni umare
5) Sanposuru Shinryakusha
6) Bangkok Nites
7) Kanojo no jinsei wa machigai janai
8) Sandome no Satsujin
9) Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi
10) Karera ga honki de amu toki wa

Top 10 foreign movies
1) I, Daniel Blake
2) Paterson
3) Manchester By The Sea
4) Dunkirk
5) The Woman Who Left
6) Silence
7) The Other Side of Hope
8) Hidden Figures
9) Moonlight
10) La La Land

Best Leading Actor: Suda Masaki (Aa, Kouya / Hibana / Teiichi no Kuni / Kiseki - Ano hi no sobito)

Best Leading Actress: Aoi Yu (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Supporting Actor: Yang Ik-Joon (Aa, Kouya)

Best Supporting Actress: Tanaka Rena (Osanako warera ni umare)

Best Male Newcomer: Yamada Ryosuke (Namiya Zakkaten no Kiseki / Hagane no Renkin Jutsushi)

Best Female Newcomer: Ishibashi Shizuka (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da / PARKS / Misshi to bannin)

Best Director: Obayashi Nobuhiko (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Best Scriptwriter: Ishii Yuuya (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Best Foreign Director: Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake)

Source: Kinema Junpo

Winners of the 30th Nikkansports Movie Awards & Ishihara Yujiro Award

Best Movie: Aa, Kouya

Best Director: Ishihara Yuuya (Yozora wa itsudemo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da)

Best Leading Actor: Suda Masaki (Aa, Kouya / Kiseki Ano hi no sobito / Teiichi no Kuni / Hibana)

Best Leading Actress: Aoi Yu (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi / Azumi Haruko wa yukue fumei)

Best Supporting Actor: Yakusho Koji (Sandome no Satsujin / Sekigahara)

Best Supporting Actress: Ono Machiko (Namiya Zakkaten no Kiseki)

Best Newcomer: Hamabe Minami (Kimi no suizou wo tabetai)

Best Foreign Movie: Dunkirk

Ishihara Yujiro Award: Outrage Saishusho (Kitano Takeshi)

Ishihara Yujiro Newcomer Award: Takeuchi Ryoma (Teiichi no Kuni)

Source: Sankei News

Winners of the 42nd Hochi Movie Awards (2017)

Best Movie: Aa, Kouya

Best Director: Mishima Yukiko (Osanako warera ni umare)

Best Leading Actor: Suda Masaki (Kiseki Ano hi no sobito / Teiichi no Kuni / Aa, Kouya / Hibana)

Best Leading Actress: Aoi Yu (Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi)

Best Supporting Actor: Yakusho Koji (Sekigahara / Sandome no Satsujin)

Best Supporting Actress: Tanaka Rena (Osanako warera ni umare)

Best Newcomer: Kitamura Takumi & Hamabe Minami (Kimi no suizou wo tabetai)

Best Foreign Movie: Beauty & The Beast

Best Anime Movie: SING

Special Award: The "Outrage" trilogy (Kitano Takeshi) & Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA (Stephen Nomura Schible)

Source: Yomiuri Hochi

First-day-screening event of new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi"

The first-day-screening event of new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi" was held at Shinjuku Wald 9 on 28 October which was attended by the director Shiraishi Kazuya and cast members Aoi Yu, Abe Sadao, Matsuzaka Toori and Takenouchi Yutaka. The movie which is based on the popular mystery novel by Numata Mahokaru, depicts how a self-centred woman Towako (Aoi) is still pining for her ex-boyfriend Kurosaki (Takenouchi) even after breaking up with him 8 years ago and has the tendency to complain about everything. While wallowing in self-pity, she has an affair with a married man Mizushima Shin (Matsuzaka) and also lives together with a man Jinji (Abe) who is 15 years older than her but is penniless and has no achievements to speak of. One day, when Towako comes to know that Kurosaki has disappeared, this marks a drastic change in her life.

Japan premiere event of new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi"

The Japan premiere event of new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi" was held at Shinjuku Wald 9 on 28 September which was attended by the director Shiraishi Kazuya and cast members Aoi Yu, Abe Sadao, Matsuzaka Toori and Takenouchi Yutaka. The movie will be shown in cinemas from 28 October.

Takenouchi Yutaka to play a gangster for the first time in new movie "Korou no Chi"

Takenouchi Yutaka will be playing a gangster for the first time in the new movie "Korou no Chi" starring Yakusho Koji which will be shown in cinemas from 12 May 2018. The movie is based on the same-titled novel by Yuzuki Yuko that had won the 69th Nihon Suiri Sakka Kyoukai Sho and is set during the Showa era before the anti-gang laws were enacted. Yakusho plays a police detective Ogami Shogo who is rumoured to be on good terms with gangsters while Matsuzaka Toori plays a newbie detective Hioka Shuichi who is assigned to work with him on a case about the disappearance of an employee in a finance company rumoured to be a gang affiliate. While having reservations about Ogami's way of investigation which is bordering on being illegal, Hioka learns many things from Ogami. As the investigation develops, it results in a battle between gang members which causes Ogami to take drastic measures to resolve the situation. Maki Youko will play Takagi, the mamasan of a club named Riko while Ishibashi Renji plays Isogo Shohei, the leader of Isogo-kai and Eguchi Yosuke plays Ichinose, the young leader of Otani-gumi. Other co-stars include Takito Kenichi, Suruga Taro and Yajima Kenichi, Taguchi Tomorowo, Nakamura Shido, Pierre Taki, Otoo Takuma and Nakamura Tomoya.

Takenouchi plays the role Nozaki Kousuke who is the young leader of Kakomura-gumi, the rival group of Otani-gumi. He is known for his flashy outfits, permed hair and speaking in the Kure dialect which makes him a presence hard to ignore. Takenouchi revealed that soon after he finished the movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi" which was also directed by Shiraishi Kazuya, he was approached to take part in this movie. Without reading the script, Takenouchi agreed to the offer. He was surprised by how good the story was after reading the script and became convinced that the movie will be a good one. Especially since he had been playing mostly good people or elites in his career, he is glad to be given a new challenge in this movie. As for speaking in dialects, Takenouchi revealed that he had roles which needed him to speak in dialects before but the Kure dialect is known for being extremely difficult due to its intonation which if not spoken properly, would sound like the Kansai dialect. As such, he had fun checking with the staff members who are natives of Kure on how he should speak the lines. With regard to his clothing in the movie, he admitted that it was beyond his imagination and extremely flashy. Initially, there was an idea of shaving his head for the role but to fit his character's flashy clothes, it was decided that permed hair would be more suitable.

Sources: Eiga.com / Sanspo / Nikkansports / Oricon

Takenouchi Yutaka & Matsuzaka Toori to appear in new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi"

Takenouchi Yutaka and Matsuzaka Toori will be appearing in the new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi" starring Aoi Yu and Abe Sadao which is directed by Shiraishi Kazuya. The movie which is based on the popular mystery novel by Numata Mahokaru, depicts how a self-centred woman Towako (Aoi) is still pining for her ex-boyfriend Kurosaki even after breaking up with him 8 years ago and has the tendency to complain about everything. While wallowing in self-pity, she lives together with a man Jinji (Abe) who is 15 years older than her but is penniless and has no achievements to speak of. One day, when Towako comes to know that Kurosaki has disappeared, this marks a drastic change in her life.

Takenouchi plays the role of Kurosaki who treated Towako very badly when they parted ways and uses the women around him as pawns for his survival and progress in life. With regard to his character, Takenouchi commented that he finds it difficult to identify with such a hopeless person but after discussing with the director during their first meeting, he decided to take on the challenge of making such a lousy man appear interesting in the movie.

On the other hand, Matsuzaka plays the role of Mizushima Shin who works as the sales supervisor in the watches section of a high-class departmental store and is involved in an extramarital affair with Towako. Although he looks like a honest guy on the surface, he is willing to do anything to satisfy his sexual desire. Matsuzaka revealed that this is the first time that he will be appearing in a bed scene so he's very honoured that he will be doing it with Aoi who he is collaborating with for the first time as well.

Co-stars also include Murakawa Eri, Akahori Masaaki, Akazawa Muck and Nakajima Shuu. The movie will be shown in cinemas from October this year.

Source: Eiga.com

Aoi Yu & Abe Sadao to star in new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi"

Aoi Yu and Abe Sadao will be starring in the new movie "Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi" (She is one of the birds with an unknown name) based on the popular mystery novel by Numata Mahokaru which will be directed by Shiraishi Kazuya. The story depicts how a self-centred woman Towako (Aoi) is still pining for her ex-boyfriend Kurosaki even after breaking up with him 8 years ago and has the tendency to complain about everything. While wallowing in self-pity, she lives together with a man Jinji (Abe) who is 15 years older than her but is penniless and has no achievements to speak of. One day, when Towako comes to know that Kurosaki has disappeared, this marks a drastic change in her life.

Aoi commented that she finds it difficult to identify with Towako who relies on Jinji to survive but pines for another man deep within. Towako can't seem to give up on things and do something about her life. Despite so, she feels that Towako will be a good test on the viewers themselves to see how much courage they have to assess themselves and dislike their own weak points. On the other hand, Abe who plays the crude pauper Jinji, revealed that he had to try to make himself as dirty and detestable as possible so he discussed with the director how to achieve this during the filming.

The movie will be shown in cinemas this autumn.

Source: Eiga.com