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Awards received& Filmography
1981
1982
1983
Something Like It (theatrical film debut)
Boys & Girls (Come on Girls!)
Top Stripper
Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
The Family Game
Yokohama Film Festival — Best Film, Best New Director
Hochi Film Award Best Picture
Kinema Junpo Awards —Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay
Blue Ribbon Awards — Best Director
Mainichi Film Awards — Best Screenplay
Yokohama Film Festival — Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay
Directors Guild of Japan — New Directors Award
Art Encouragement Prize New Face Award from The Minister of Education Award
Japan Academy Film Prize — nominated for Picture of the Year, Director of the Year,
Screenplay of the Year, and other many awards
International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival — Special Award
In 1984, it was screened in New York City and five other major cities in the U.S., and
was a huge hit and highly acclaimed at the same time.
1984
1985
Deaths in Tokimeki
Main Theme
And Then
Hochi Film Award Best Picture, Best Director
Kinema Junpo Awards — Best Film, Best Director
Blue Ribbon Awards — Staff Award
Japan P.E.N Club — Best 1 (Best Film)
Fumiko Yamaji Movie Award
Japan Academy Film Prize — nominated for Picture of the Year and Director of the Year
Staff members won each award.
Entered in Directors’ Fortnight for the Cannes Film Festival
1986
Sorobanzuku
Yokohama Film Festival — Best Screenplay
1988
Kanashii Iro Yanen
(Love and Action in Osaka)
1989
Ai to Heisei no Iro-Otoko
(24 Hour Playboy)
Kitchen
Royal Belgian Film Archive — L’Age d’Or Award
1991
1992
1996
Happy Wedding
Future Memories: Last Christmas
(HARU)
Hochi Film Award — Best Director
Yokohama Film Festival — Best Screenplay
Japanese Movie Critics Awards — Best Director
Japan Academy Film Prize — nominated for Screenplay of the Year
1997
Lost Paradise
Japanese Movie Critics Awards — Visual Art Award
Japan Academy Film Prize — nominated for Director of the Year
Entered in World Competition for the Montreal World Film Festival
1999
Keiho
Yokohama Film Festival Best Film, Best Director
Mainichi Film Awards — Excellence Film, Best Director
Entered in Competition for the Berlin International Film Festival
The Black House
Yokohama Film Festival — Best Director
2002
Copycat Killer
Entered in Montreal World Film Festival
2003
Like Asura
Nikkan Sports Film Award — Best Film
Blue Ribbon Awards — Best Director
Japan Academy Film Prize — Best Director, nominated for Picture of the Year
Entered in World Competition for the Montreal World Film Festival
2004
Umineko (The Seagull)
Entered in Focus on World Cinema for the Montreal World Film Festival
2006
The Mamiya Brothers
2007
Southbound
Sanjuro
2009
It's on Me
2010
Abacus and Sword
2012
Train Brain Express
