The 55th Blue Ribbon Awards winners

Best Movie: Kazoku no Kuni

Best Leading Actor: Abe Hiroshi (Terumae Romae / Kirin no Tsubasa / Karasu no Oyayubi)

Best Leading Actress: Ando Sakura (Kazoku no Kuni)

Best Supporting Actor: Iura Arata (Kazoku no Kuni)

Best Supporting Actress: Hirosue Ryoko (Kagidorobo no Mesoddo)

Best Newcomer: Makita Sports (Kueki Densha)

Best Director: Uchida Kenji (Kagidorobo no Mesoddo)

Meet-the-audience event for "Karase no Oyayubi"

Abe Hiroshi, Kosaka Daimaou and Koyanagi Yu attended the meet-the-audience event held at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills on 5 December along with the director Ito Tadafumi. Abe called upon everyone to support this film and jokingly said that he has to work harder from now on since his second daughter was born just last month. He also revealed that he was taken in by the tricks featured in the film when he was reading the script and stressed that the audience would be in for a thrilling adventure where they would most likely be tricked by the story.

Source: Sanspo

First-day screening of "Karasu no Oyayubi"

The first-day screening of movie "Karasu no Oyayubi" was held on 23 November at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills which was attended by cast members including Abe Hiroshi, Ishihara Satomi, Koyanagi Yu, Murakami George and Nounen Rina. This movie also happens to be the third movie starring Abe Hiroshi released in 2012 (the first two were "Kirin no Tsubasa ~ Gekijouban Shinzanmono" and "Terumae Romae"). Abe mentioned that this was the first time he's playing a fraudster and he felt that the viewers will believe in his trickery featured in the movie. As for Nounen, she had been unable to participate in most of the pre-screening promotional events so far due to her busy filming schedule for NHK morning drama "Ama-chan" so she was glad that she could attend the first-day screening with the rest of her co-stars.

Source: Yomiuri Hochi