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The film is adapted from the best selling autobiography of Lily Franky, a Japanese novelist, actor, illustrator, designer, musician and photographer. The young Eiko is played by Yayako Uchida, the daughter of actress Kirin Kiki who plays Eiko as an old woman. The film was chosen as the Best Film of 2008 at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. [3]
While battling various ailments, including a detached retina in 2003 and breast cancer in 2005, [5] Kiki continued to act and won several awards, including the best actress Japan Academy Prize for Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad in 2008, [6] the best supporting actress award from the Yokohama Film Festival for her work in Kamikaze Girls and Half ...
29th Hochi Film Awards Best Actress The Hidden Blade: Won [48] 2005 28th Japan Academy Film Prize: Best Actress: Nominated [9] 2008 31st Japan Academy Film Prize: Best Supporting Actress: Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad: Nominated [11] 2009 34th Hochi Film Awards Best Actress Villon's Wife: Won [48] 22nd Nikkan Sports Film Awards ...
Japanese cinema indubitably corners the market on traversing the thin membrane separating sexual pleasure and pain, and Nagisa Oshima’s violent, erotic masterpiece In the Realm of the Senses ...
Confessions (Japanese: 告白, Kokuhaku) is a 2010 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima and based on author Kanae Minato's 2008 debut mystery novel, which won the 2009 Honya Taisho award (Japan Booksellers Award). [2]
Masami Nagasawa (長澤 まさみ, Nagasawa Masami, born June 3, 1987) is a Japanese actress. She has had a prolific film career since her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters, receiving multiple accolades, including five Japan Academy Film Prizes and four Blue Ribbon Awards.
1) live action pink films made by independent studios (e.g. Wakamatsu, OP Eiga) for release to adult theatres, 2) live action films distributed by major studios for wide release. These would include the Nikkatsu Roman Porno series (1971-1988) and Toei Porno (early 1970's, described in the pink film entry) which have separate subcategories.
Fujitani has contributed film reviews to the Japanese magazine Roadshow, and has published several coupled novellas, including Touhimu (Flee-Dream), which was adapted into the film, Shiki-Jitsu, by writer and director Hideaki Anno. She also published Yakeinu (Burnt Dog). Fujitani has written both fiction and non-fiction, contributing essays and ...