Winners of the 44th Hochi Movie Awards (2019)

Best Japanese Movie: Mitsubachi to Enrai

Best Foreign Movie: Joker

Best Animation Movie: Tenki no Ko

Best Leading Actor: Nakai Kiichi (Kioku ni gozaimasen!)

Best Leading Actress: Nagasawa Masami (Masquerade Hotel / Confidence Man JP)

Best Supporting Actor: Narita Ryo (Chiwawa-chan / Ai ga nanda / Sayonara Kuchibiru)

Best Supporting Actress: Komatsu Nana (Kuru / Heisa Byoutou - Sorezore no Asa -"

Best Director: Sato Shinsuke (Kingdom)

Best Newcomer: Suzuka Oji (Mitsubachi to Enrai) / Tamashiro Tina (Diner / Aku no Hana)

Special Award: Tonde Saitama

Source: Natalie

Top 10 movies box office ranking for the weekend of 22nd & 23rd Dec 2018

Numbers in brackets indicate the number of cinemas showing the movie:

1) Ralph breaks the Internet (374)

2) Dragon Ball Super Broly (361)

3) Heisei Kamen Rider 20 Saku Kinen Kamen Rider Heisei Generations FOREVER (330)

4) Bohemian Rhapsody (368)

5) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (358)

6) A Star is Born (340)

7) The Grinch (365)

8) Eiga Youkai Watch FOREVER FRIENDS (367)

9) Nisekoi (294)

10) Kuru (330)

Source: Eiga.com

Top 10 movies box office ranking for the weekend of 15th & 16th Dec 2018

Numbers in brackets indicate the number of cinemas showing the movie:

1) Dragon Ball Super Broly (361)

2) Bohemian Rhapsody (368)

3) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (358)

4) Eiga Youkai Watch FOREVER FRIENDS (367)

5) The Grinch (365)

6) Kuru (330)

7) Haru matsu bokura (307)

8) The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (271)

9) Kido Senshi Gundam NT (91)

10) Sumaho wo otoshitadake nanoni (314)

Source: Eiga.com

Top 10 movies box office ranking for the weekend of 8th & 9th Dec 2018

Numbers in brackets indicate the number of cinemas showing the movie:

1) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (358)

2) Bohemian Rhapsody (368)

3) Kuru (330)

4) The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (271)

5) Kido Senshi Gundam NT (91)

6) Sumaho wo otoshitadake nanoni (314)

7) Ningyo no nemuru ie (327)

8) Uirabu (215)

9) Venom (352)

10) Kazokuiro RAILWAYS Watashitachi no shuppatsu (209)

Source: Eiga.com

Okada Junichi to star in new horror movie "Kuru" with Tsumabuki Satoshi, Kuroki Haru, Komatsu Nana & Matsu Takako

Okada Junichi will be starring in the new horror movie "Kuru" (Coming) directed by Nakashima Tetsuya and based on the novel "Boginwanga, kuru" by Sawamura Ichi which won the 22nd Nihon Horror Taisho in 2015. The story describes the horror of having an unknown risk lurking in the shadows and how people who are perceived to be righteous can turn out entirely different when seen from a different perspective. Co-stars include Kuroki Haru, Komatsu Nana, Tsumabuki Satoshi and Matsu Takako.