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Mainichi Film Concours

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    Mainichi Film Concours

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    Best Actor

    • Kôji Yakusho at an event for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
      Winner
      • Kôji Yakusho
      • Kamikaze Taxi

    Best Actress

    • Haruko Sugimura in Early Summer (1951)
      Winner
      • Haruko Sugimura
      • A Last Note

    Best Animated Film

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      Winner

      Junkers Come Here

      7.1 (308)
      Jun'ichi Satô

    Best Art Direction

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      Winner

      Goodbye for Tomorrow

      5.4 (79)
      Kazuo Takenaka

    Best Cinematography

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      Sharaku

      6.6 (211)
      Tatsuo Suzuki

    Best Director

    • Kaneto Shindô
      Winner
      • Kaneto Shindô
      • A Last Note

    Best Film

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      Winner

      A Last Note

      6.8 (262)
      Kaneto Shindô

    Best Film Score

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Maborosi

      7.5 (8K)
      Ming-chang Chen

    Best Foreign Language Film

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      Winner

      The Shawshank Redemption

      9.3 (3.1M)
      Frank Darabont

    Best Screenplay

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      Like Grains of Sand

      7.4 (1.6K)
      Ryosuke Hashiguchi

    Best Sound Recording

    • Sharaku (1995)
      Winners
      • Sharaku
      • Kinkyu yobidashi - Emâjenshî kôru
      Tetsuo Segawa

    Best Supporting Actor

    • Hiroki Matsukata in Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
      Winner
      • Hiroki Matsukata
      • Kura

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Winner
      • Haruko Wanibuchi
      • The Stairway to the Distant Past
      • Heisei Musekinin-ikka Tokyo Deluxe
      • House of Sleeping Beauties

    Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Kura

      6.3 (32)
      Sae Isshiki
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Score

      6.1 (251)
      Atsushi Muroga
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Maborosi

      7.5 (8K)
      Makiko Esumi

    Readers' Choice Award

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    Best Film

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      Kura

      6.3 (32)
      Yasuo Furuhata

    Best Foreign Language Film

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      The Bridges of Madison County

      7.6 (94K)
      Clint Eastwood

    Ofuji Noburo Award

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    • [object Object]
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      Memories

      7.5 (23K)
      Katsuhiro Ôtomo
      For Katsuhiro Otomo as a brilliant excutive producer.

    Special Award

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    • Winner
      • Tetsuo Takaha
      For his work.
    • Nobuko Otowa and Kiwako Taichi in Black Cat (1968)
      Winner
      • Nobuko Otowa
      For her career.
    • Winner
      • Tome Minami
      For her work.

    Tanaka Kinuyo Award

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    • Winner
      • Ruriko Asaoka

    Also known as

    • Mainichi Eiga Concours
    • Mainichi Film Awards

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