Excellence Award Winners of the 48th Nippon Academy Awards (2024) - Film & individual acting awards

Unlike other awards, the Nippon Academy Awards selects 5 "winners" in each category for the excellence awards and presents the grand award to the No.1 among these 5 in the 15 main categories during its prize-giving ceremony. As such, the list here represent actually winners of the excellence awards and not nominees as explained by the organiser. 

The prize-giving ceremony for the 48th edition will be held on 14 March 2025. For the full list of winners, please refer here (currently, the official website is down due to high traffic).

Best Movie

- Kingdom 4 Daishogun no kikan

- Samurai Time Slipper

- Shoutai

- Yoake no subete

- Last Mile

Best Director 

- Sato Shinsuke (Kingdom 4 Daishogun no kikan)

- Tsukahara Ayuko (Last Mile)

- Fujii Michihito (Shoutai)

- Miyake Sho (Yoake no subete)

- Yasuda Junichi (Samurai Time Slipper)

Best Scriptwriter

- Irie Yu (An no koto)

- Ohshima Satomi (99-sai. Nani ga medetai)

- Kodera Kazuhisa / Fujii Michihito (Shoutai)

- Nogi Akiko (Karaoke iko!)

- Nogi Akiko (Last Mile)

- Yasuda Junichi (Samurai Time Slipper)

Best Leading Actor

- Ayano Go (Karaoke iko!)

- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (Gobangiri)

- Yamaguchi Makiya (Samurai Time Slipper)

- Yamazaki Kento (Kingdom 4 Daishogun no kikan)

- Yokohama Ryuusei (Shoutai)

Best Leading Actress

- Ishihara Satomi (Missing)

- Kamishiraishi Mone (Yoake no subete)

- Kawai Yumi (An no koto)

- Kusabue Mitsuko (99-sai. Nani ga medetai)

- Mitsushima Hikari (Last Mile)

Best Supporting Actor

- Uchino Seiyo (Hakkenden)

- Oosawa Takao (Kingdom 4 Daishogun no kikan)

- Okada Masaki (Last Mile)

- Sato Jiro (An no koto)

- Yamada Takayuki (Shoutai)

Best Supporting Actress

- Ashida Mana (Hataraku saibou)

- Kiyohara Kaya (Gobangiri)

- Tsuchiya Tao (Hakkenden)

- Yamada Anna (Shoutai)

- Yoshioka Riho (Shoutai)

Newcomers

- Saito Asuka (Oshi no ko - The Final Act -)

- Shibuya Nagisa (Ano ko wa daare?)

- Yamada Anna (Golden Kamuy / Shoutai)

- Akaso Eiji (Rokunin no usotsuki na daigakusei / Moshimo Tokugawa Ieyasu ga souridaijin ni nattara)

- Itagaki Rihito (Hakkenden / Hataraku saibou / Onmyouji 0)

- Koshiyama Keitatsu (Boku no ohisama)

- Saito Jun (Karaoke iko!)

- Morimoto Shintaro (Shoutai)

Association Honorary Award 

- The late Nishida Toshiyuki

Quick Review #82: Onmyouji 0 (movie)

Title: Onmyouji 0 / 陰陽師0

Rating: 2 / 10

Recommended for: 

Those who are fine with watching an uneventful prelude to Abe no Seimei's rise to become a top onmyouji

* Currently available on Amazon Prime Video (subject to geographical location)

Liked:

- Tsuda Kenjiro's narration was really good and fitted the vibe of this movie.

Disliked: 

- While I already adjusted my expectations to a certain extent considering that this was focused on the early days of Seimei and probably wouldn't be that exciting, the story still turned out to be very underwhelming and I even found myself dozing off multiple times. Although this movie was the commemorative work to mark the 1100th birthday of Seimei and was produced with the back-up of the original novel's author Yumemakura Baku's, the final result was disappointing, at least to me.

- Even for fans of Yamazaki Kento, I would find it hard to recommend this to them. Perhaps it's the way the story was but it certainly didn't portray Yamazaki in a very favourable light, both in terms of the onscreen image and the character's behaviour.

- Considering that the Heian era was known for its art and beauty, it was quite disappointing to see that the visuals certainly did not reflect this unique trait of that period. It could be due to the fact that most of the story actually took place within the Onmyouji Academy and there was only one female character among the guys. Even so, most of the characters were nobles from the aristocratic class or government officials so the costumes they wore or the set designs could have been a bit more elaborate, intricate and colourful.