Japan Academy Film Prize Main Category Winners

Three complete strangers embark on a road-trip to Hokkaido.

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting.

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army tackled Mount Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds. "The Incident" is a study in unrestrained passion and jealousy.

After a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife.

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Sayoko is desperate to have a child, but her boyfriend Shinsaku is horrified. One day, a six-year-old boy is left outside the door claiming Shinsaku to be its father.

A wistful slice-of-life drama about a college student's attempts to manage her relations with two men.

A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

A mysterious stranger appears at door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter.

Tora receives a letter from Lily, telling him that she is terminally ill. He flies to see her in a Okinawa hospital, and the two get a chance to rekindle their old fling.

The lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

Constantly put to the test and faced with tragedy wherever he turns, can a man finally find solace and a modicum of love or rest with what is left of his hometown, his family, love or himself?

In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner.

After the usual family fight, Tora leaves Shibamata and falls in love with a geisha from Osaka, who is struggling with her own problems. Tora tries to help her.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.

The story of Baian, an acupuncturist and assassin.