Japanese Academy Awards 2007
On February 16, 2007 , the 30th Japanese Academy Awards , Japan's national film awards, were held.
When the nominations were announced, the film Hula Girls by Japanese director Lee Sang-il led the field with 13 nominations and ultimately won in six categories (including two wins for young actors), making it the most successful film at the award. It is about young Japanese women who want to boost the economy of their small hometown by recreating Hawaii in the town. The comedy, which was Japan's candidate for a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2007 Academy Awards , dominated the categories of Best Picture and Best Director , among others . Also as a Best Picture nominee Koki Mitanis The Uchōten Hotel . This eleven times nominated and completely empty film is set on New Year's Eve in a Tokyo five-star hotel and describes the mishaps of the hotel staff. Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun , the film adaptation of a novel by Shūhei Fujisawa, was nominated thirteen times and won three times . The samurai drama was directed by the renowned director Yōji Yamada , from whom several films (for example Samurai in the Twilight ) have already received awards at the Japanese Academy Awards. Junya Sato's war film Otoko-tachi no yamato and Tetsuya Nakashima's tragic comedy Memories of Matsuko each received nine nominations , the latter film not being nominated in the Best Picture category. Both were able to prevail in three categories each. Instead, Yukihiko Tsutsumi's five-time nominee Ashita no kioku drama was hoping for a successful businessman whose family life is affected by early signs of Alzheimer's disease. For Ashita no kioku there was only the leading actor award , which went to Ken Watanabe .
The Japanese Academy Award was presented for the first time in 2007 in the Best Animated Film category. Japan has one of the biggest animated film industries in the world and with other Japanese film awards such as the Mainichi Film Competition are anime awarded in separate categories. Two animated films, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away , have already won previous awards in the Best Film category . In 2007, in addition to the tenth Detective Conan film, the studio Ghibli work and directorial debut of Hayao Miyazaki's son Goro Miyazaki , Die Chroniken von Erdsee , was nominated for Best Animated Film, but Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leaped Through Time was awarded .
Special prizes were given to Akira Ifukube , Shōhei Imamura , Takahiro Tamura , Tetsurō Tamba and Takeomi Nakayama , all of whom died in 2006.
Award winners and nominees
Best movie
Hula Girls (フ ラ ガ ー ル hura gāru ) - Director: Lee Sang-il
- Ashita no kioku (明日 の 記憶) - Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
- Otoko-tachi no yamato (男 た ち の 大 和 YAMATO) - Director: Junya Sato
- The Uchōten Hotel (THE 有 頂 天 ホ テ ル) - Director: Koki Mitani
- Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun (武士 の 一 分) - Director: Yōji Yamada
Best director
- Junya Sato - Otoko-tachi no yamato
- Tetsuya Nakashima - Memories of Matsuko (嫌 わ れ 松子 の 一生)
- Koki Mitani - The Uchōten Hotel
- Yōji Yamada - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
Best script
Lee Sang-il and Daisuke Habara - Hula Girls
- Hakaru Sunamoto and Uiko Miura - Ashita no kioku
- Tetsuya Nakashima - Memories of Matsuko
- Koki Mitani - The Uchōten Hotel
- Yōji Yamada , Emiko Hiramatsu and Ichirō Yamamoto - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
Best Actor
Ken Watanabe - Ashita no kioku
- Joe Odagiri - Yureru (ゆ れ る)
- Satoshi Tsumabuki - Nada sō sō (涙 そ う そ う)
- Akira Terao - Hakase no aishita sūshiki (博士 の 愛 し た 数 式)
- Kōji Yakusho - The Uchōten Hotel
Best main actress
Miki Nakatani - Memories of Matsuko
- Rei Dan - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
- Masami Nagasawa - Nada sō sō
- Kanako Higuchi - Ashita no kioku
- Yasuko Matsuyuki - Hula Girls
Best supporting actor
Takashi Sasano - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
- Takao Ōsawa - Metro ni notte (地下 鉄 (メ ト ロ) に 乗 っ て)
- Teruyuki Kagawa - Yureru
- Kōichi Satō - The Uchōten Hotel
- Ken'ichi Matsuyama - Death Note - Zenpen (デ ス ノ ー ト 前 編)
The best supporting actress
- Yū Aoi - Otoko-tachi no yamato
- Yū Aoi - Hula Girls
- Masako Motai - Kamome shokudo (か も め 食堂)
- Kaori Momoi - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
Best young actor
Kenta Suga - Hanada shōnen-shi (花田 少年 史)
Muga Tsukaji - Mamiya kyodai (間 宮 兄弟)
Mokomichi Hayami - Rough (ラ フ rafu )
Ken'ichi Matsuyama - Otoko-tachi no yamato
Yū Aoi - Hula Girls
Rei Dan - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
Shizuyo Yamazaki - Hula Girls
YUI - Taiyō no Uta (タ イ ヨ ウ の う た)
Best music
Gabriele Roberto and Takeshi Shibuya - Memories of Matsuko
- Michiru Ōshima - Ashita no kioku
- Isao Tomita - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
- Joe Hisaishi - Otoko-tachi no yamato
- Yūsuke Honma - The Uchōten Hotel
Best camera
Mutsuo Naganuma - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
- Masakazu Ato - Memories of Matsuko
- Yoshitaka Sakamoto - Otoko-tachi no yamato
- Hideo Yamamoto - The Uchōten Hotel
- Hideo Yamamoto - Hula Girls
Best lighting
Takeshi Nakasu - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
- Tarō Kimura - Memories of Matsuko
- Takeshi Okubo - Otoko-tachi no yamato
- Hikaru Ono - The Uchoten Hotel
- Hikaru Ono - Hula Girls
Best production design
Toshiyuki Matsumiya and Shigeyuki Kondo - Otoko-tachi no yamato
- Towako Kuwajima - Memories of Matsuko
- Yohei Taneda - The Uchoten Hotel
- Yohei Taneda - Hula Girls
- Mitsuo Degawa - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
Best tone
Nobuhiko Matsukage and Tetsuo Segawa - Otoko-tachi no yamato
- Kazumi Kishida - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
- Junichi Shima and Tadao Tasai - Memories of Matsuko
- Mitsugu Shiratori - Hula Girls
- Tetsuo Segawa - The Uchoten Hotel
Best cut
Yoshiyuki Koike - Memories of Matsuko
- Wao Ishii - Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun
- Tsuyoshi Imai - Hula Girls
- Soichi Ueno - The Uchoten Hotel
- Takero Yoneda - Otoko-tachi no yamato
Best animated film
The girl who jumped through time ( Toki wo Kakeru Shōjo ) - Director: Mamoru Hosoda
- Arashi no Yoru ni (あ ら し の よ る に) - Director: Gisaburō Sugii
- The Chronicles of Earth Sea ( Gedo Senki ) - Director: Goro Miyazaki
- Brave Story (ブ レ イ ブ ス ト ー リ ー) - Director: Koichi Chigira
- Meitantei Conan: Tantei-tachi no Chinkonka - Requiem (名 探 偵 コ ナ ン 探 偵 た ち の 鎮魂歌 (レ ク イ エ ム)) - Director: Taiichiro Yamamoto
Best foreign film
Flags of Our Fathers - Director: Clint Eastwood
- LA Crash ( Crash ) - Director: Paul Haggis
- The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code ( The Da Vinci Code ) - Director: Ron Howard
- Pirates of the Caribbean 2 ( Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ) - Director: Gore Verbinski
- Hotel Rwanda ( Hotel Rwanda ) - Director: Terry George
Chairman's special award
Akira Ifukube , Japanese composer
Shōhei Imamura , Japanese director and screenwriter
Takahiro Tamura , Japanese actor
Tetsurō Tamba , Japanese actor
Takeomi Nakayama , Japanese producer
Special Academy Award
Web links
- Overview of nominations ( Memento from May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)