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Kinema Junpo Awards

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    Kinema Junpo Award

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    Best Actor

    • Masahiro Motoki in Departures (2008)
      Winner
      • Masahiro Motoki
      • Departures

    Best Actress

    • Kyôko Koizumi in Tokyo Sonata (2008)
      Winner
      • Kyôko Koizumi
      • Tokyo Sonata
      • Gou Gou, the Cat

    Best Director

    • Oscar® winner Yojiro Takita backstage during the live ABC Telecast of the 81st Annual Academy Awards® from the Kodak Theatre, in Hollywood, CA Sunday, February 22, 2009.
      Winner
      • Yôjirô Takita
      • Departures

    Best Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Departures

      8.0 (57K)
      Yôjirô Takita
    • [object Object]

      Gururi no koto

      7.5 (940)
      Ryosuke Hashiguchi
    • [object Object]

      United Red Army

      7.1 (934)
      Kôji Wakamatsu
    • [object Object]

      Tokyo Sonata

      7.5 (13K)
      Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    • [object Object]

      Still Walking

      7.9 (20K)
      Hirokazu Koreeda
    • [object Object]

      Children of the Dark

      6.4 (274)
      Junji Sakamoto
    • [object Object]

      Kabei: Our Mother

      7.6 (1.6K)
      Yoji Yamada
    • [object Object]

      Climbers High

      6.6 (274)
      Masato Harada
      Eighth place
    • [object Object]

      The Kiss

      6.1 (88)
      Kunitoshi Manda
      Ninth place
    • [object Object]

      Afutâ sukûru

      6.6 (412)
      Kenji Uchida
      Tenth place

    Best Foreign Film Director

    • Sidney Lumet
      Winner
      • Sidney Lumet
      • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
      Tied with Sean Penn for Into the Wild (2007).
    • Sean Penn
      Winner
      • Sean Penn
      • Into the Wild
      Tied with Sidney Lumet for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).

    Best Foreign Language Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      No Country for Old Men

      8.2 (1.1M)
      Joel Coen
      Ethan Coen
    • [object Object]

      There Will Be Blood

      8.2 (679K)
      Paul Thomas Anderson
    • [object Object]

      The Dark Knight

      9.1 (3.1M)
      Christopher Nolan
    • [object Object]

      Into the Wild

      8.0 (684K)
      Sean Penn
    • [object Object]

      Lust, Caution

      7.5 (47K)
      Ang Lee
    • [object Object]

      Eastern Promises

      7.6 (272K)
      David Cronenberg
      Sixth place
    • [object Object]

      Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

      7.3 (118K)
      Sidney Lumet
      Seventh place
    • [object Object]

      Exiled

      7.2 (10K)
      Johnnie To
      Eighth place
    • [object Object]

      Atonement

      7.8 (318K)
      Joe Wright
      Ninth place
    • [object Object]

      Alexandra

      6.8 (2.8K)
      Aleksandr Sokurov
      Tenth place

    Best New Actor

    • Kai Inowaki in Tokyo Sonata (2008)
      Winner
      • Kai Inowaki
      • Tokyo Sonata

    Best New Actress

    • Winner
      • Haruna Amari
      • Kodomo no kodomo

    Best Screenplay

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Departures

      8.0 (57K)
      Kundô Koyama

    Best Supporting Actor

    • Winner
      • Masato Sakai
      • Climbers High
      • Afutâ sukûru

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Kirin Kiki
      Winner
      • Kirin Kiki
      • Still Walking

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    • Kinema Junpo Awards (Shou)

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    Event date

    February 18, 2009

    Event location

    Tokyo, Japan

    Event links

    • http://www.kinejun.com/

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