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 Encyclopedia: Japanese Academy Awards
The Japanese Academy Awards have been held since 1977 to reward excellence in Japanese film.
Award categories are similar to the American Academy Awards.
The Funeral (お葬式; or Ososhiki) is a 1984 Japanese film by director Itami Juzo starring Yamazaki Tsutomu, Miyamoto Nobuko, Sugai Kin and Otaki Shuji.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japanese-Academy-Awards   (1221 words)

  
 Hayao Miyazaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The director's next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa), was an epic adventure featuring many distinctive themes which reappear in later films: a concern with ecological issues, a fascination with aircraft, and the absence of a traditional villain.
It has received numerous film awards, including Best Picture at the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Golden Bear (First Prize) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the first Oscar awarded to an anime production.
In 2005, Miyazaki was awarded for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miyazaki_Hayao   (1792 words)

  
 Hayao Miyazaki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿; Miyazaki Hayao) (born January 5, 1941) is one of the most famous and respected creators of anime, or Japanese animated films.
He is the creator of many popular anime feature films, as well as some manga (Japanese comics).
It has received numerous film awards, including Best Picture at the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Golden Bear (First Prize) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the first Oscar awarded to any anime production.
hallencyclopedia.com /Hayao_Miyazaki   (1534 words)

  
 Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿;) (born January 5, 1941) is one of the most famous and respected creators of anime, or Japanese animated films.
Although largely unknown in the west outside of animation circles until his 2002 Animated Feature Oscar, his films are almost without exception huge box-office and critical successes in Japan, and many of them explore the themes of humanity's relationship to nature.
It has received numerous film awards, including Best Picture at the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Golden Bear (First Prize) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hayao_miyazaki.html   (496 words)

  
 academy awards history - academy awards history Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Movie-STAR is a database containing a history of the Academy Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1927 to the...
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press...
Academy Awards History When Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony honors the newest crop of Oscar winners, some reflection on the history of the Oscars is...
yourgreatawardsressources.info /academy-awards-history   (1023 words)

  
 Stony Brook University–Charles B. Wang Center
The story is set in the 1600s when the residents of a small Japanese village are seeking protection against repeated attacks by a band of marauding thieves.
This Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and the winner of 12 Japanese Film Academy Awards is set in the late 19th century as the feudal Shogun period was giving way to the Meiji Restoration.
Academy Award Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2004, Ken Watanabe plays the leader of the country’s samurais.
www.sunysb.edu /sb/wang/samurai.shtml   (290 words)

  
 Midnight Eye review: Rockers (2003, Takanori JINNAI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Filmed documents of the Japanese punk scene of the late 70s and early 80s are rare items indeed.
What exists is nearly all the product of the illustrious Sogo Ishii, who made several handfuls of short films, features and concert films during the period, many populated by the country's various punk rock exponents, with 1982's astonishing Burst City being arguably the definitive record of the spirit and energy of the movement.
It may not offer any insights into the history of the Japanese punk music scene and even similarities with the band that inspired it are superficial at best, but Rockers transcends that admittedly narrow focus to become a film of much more universal appeal.
www.midnighteye.com /reviews/rockers.shtml   (784 words)

  
 List of movie awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The awards sometimes have distinctive names (such as the Oscar for the Academy Awards), which are mentioned if applicable.
Many awards are simply identified by the name of the group presenting the award.
Awards have been divided into three major categories: critics' awards, voted on (usually annually) by a group of critics; festival awards, awards presented to the best film shown in a particular film festival; and industry awards, which are selected by professionals working in some branch of the movie industry.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-movie-awards.htm   (237 words)

  
 Japanese Academy Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many critics have been appalled by the movies that are chosen some years and the seeming focus on only blockbusters.
Critics states that films that have done extremely well criticaly fail to even get nominated.
They Highlight this by in 2004 Nobody_Knows despite winning best actor at Cannes, being nominated by Japan for best foreign film at the oscars and being highly praised internationally, it recived only one nomination for best supporting actress, for an established popular actress, at the Japanese academy awards.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_Academy_Awards   (150 words)

  
 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : Richard Widmark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
According to the 75th Academy Award Rules, the nomination must be made by a member of the Academy.
I hope he is awarded the recogintion by the Academy this time, because this capable and private man has deserved it many times before.
I thot the academy members are the ONLY one to decide on liftime achievement awards, the public really havin' no say in such.
www.oscarworld.net /awardlobby_read.asp?LobbyId=237   (10648 words)

  
 Japanese Academy Awards Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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 CAS Academy Awards
This award includes the attending raw (main year March graduate of the art * fine arts university) is competition of the video art which is done in the object.
There are times when the talent where purpose of this award stares the image environment where those change, is young is excavated.
In addition, in Holland and Rotterdam that it is advanced in the image work, the between Japan and Holland being international by introducing the young Japanese artist, expecting also that it builds up the network of the pliant art scene simultaneously, it does.
cas.or.jp /2002/cas_awards/index_e.html   (228 words)

  
 The Twilight Samurai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Twilight Samurai (たそがれ清兵衛, Tasogare Seibei) is a 2002 Japanese movie directed by Yamada Yoji.
Set in 19th-century Japan, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai employed as a bureaucrat.
The Twilight Samurai was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film award at the 76th Academy Awards and won the 2002 Best Film Award at the Japanese Academy Awards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Twilight_Samurai   (115 words)

  
 CNN.com - It's a knockout for 'Million Dollar Baby' - Feb 28, 2005
For some awards, all nominees were invited on stage before the winner was announced.
Other awards featured the sight of nominees sitting in the audience as the camera panned down the aisle at each group of candidates.
Then, when nominees were announced from the audience for other categories, the winners gave their thank-you speeches from a microphone set up nearby, as if they were asking questions of a CEO at a conference.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/27/oscar.night   (1265 words)

  
 Film & TV: Shall We Dance? (Salt Lake City Weekly . 08-18-97)
Another excellent foreign film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, this delightful Japanese comedy is pure charm.
Masayuki Suo's delightful confection won all 13 Japanese Academy Awards, a well-deserved honor.
The Japanese may not be big on sentimentality, but Suo's touching film does has an honest sentiment conveyed with great warmth and heart.
weeklywire.com /ww/08-18-97/slc_cinema.html   (825 words)

  
 News
"Black Rain," a Japanese film that explores the psychological and physical fallout for a young woman five years after the bombing in Hiroshima is the next offering in Lebanon Valley College's "Science and Public Policy" Colloquium film series.
The film, which won five Japanese Academy Awards, will be shown on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 1:30 p.m.
The film is in Japanese with English subtitles.
www.lvc.edu /news-events/index.aspx?id=506   (166 words)

  
 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor
Note: Oscar® and Academy Awards® and Oscar® design mark are the trademarks and service marks and the Oscar© statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Japanese native Sessue Hayakawa was nominated for his role as a Japanese POW camp commander in
Six year old (and 310 days) Shirley Temple was the youngest performer to win an Academy Award when she won an unofficial 'juvenile' Academy Award in 1934 (an honorary award presented on February 27, 1935).
greatestfilms.org /bestsuppactor.html   (3054 words)

  
 DVD Debate.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
If the Japanese Region 2 release of Jam Films 2 is a little out of your price range, then perhaps the February 1st release of the HK Region 3 disc is a cheaper substitute.
Japanese audio will be provided in Dolby Stereo 2.0, along with optional English and Chinese subtitles.
Japanese drama specialist Tetsuo Shinohara, who was responsible for the romantic hit Heaven's Bookstore - The Light of Love, returns with his latest offering, Sinkokyu no Hitsuyo (aka The Necessity Of Deep Breathing), courtesy of Bandai Visual.
www.dvddebate.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4924   (2849 words)

  
 Midnight Eye review: Shall We Dance? (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Put simply, Japanese culture is far too alien and too damn odd to resonate much with Western mainstream audiences, which is what makes the universal appeal of Shall We Dance?
The full-length Japanese version obviously doesn't have to bother explaining Japanese culture to its native audience, instead giving a historical background to the evolution of ballroom dancing in Europe.
It is colourful and buoyant, moving and inspiring, and still, a few years after the initial critical clamouring has subsided, just as strong as ever.
www.midnighteye.com /reviews/shallwed.shtml   (727 words)

  
 The Twilight Samurai
Hiroyuki Sanada starred in both of the Japanese versions of "The Ring," "Ringu/2," and was in "The Last Samurai" with Tom Cruise.
As Seibei in this film, he plays a low-level samurai who is eventually pitted in a dual to the death with a rebellious samurai who was on the losing end of a political dispute and refuses to commit suicide.
Japanese beauty Rie Miyazawa in her 2nd film plays the lovely Tomoe who breaks with the village tradition of arranged marriages and wants to marry for love.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /ItemId/B00065GX0K   (1431 words)

  
 Singapore Film Society -- Japanese Film Festival 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Based on the biography of maverick Japanese Ukiyo-e (literally, paintings of the floating world) master, Hokusai Katsushika, the film takes on an erotic narration of the painter's life in 18th century Edo (former name of Tokyo).
The Japanese Association (Singapore) was established in 1915 and re-established in 1957, with a history of over 80 years.
The pre-war Japanese Association was a gathering place for Japanese who lived in Singapore and took care of members’ welfare, their children’s education as well as cemetery maintenance.
www.sfs.org.sg /2004/09jff.html   (2101 words)

  
 76th Annual Academy Awards: Oscar Nominations | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Ufez: Actually it was nominated in the last academy awards for foreign language film.
The Japanese are one-dimensional and dehumanised in the movie, serving as an exotic background for Bob and Charlotte's story, like dirty wallpaper in a cheap hotel.
I just want to add a standard disclaimer that the academy awards are a popularity contest voted on by a number of 50+ year old Hollywood types.
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 The Twilight Samurai
This is a very fine example of an actual lifestyle of a Japanese Samurai.
Played brillantly by Hiroyuki Sanada, a long time actor and martial artist under Sonny Chiba and the series Kage no Gundan, and his latest role opposite Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, Hiroyuki-san did an outstanding and emotionally touching skill of bringing out a truthful rendition of life in late Samurai periods.
And speaking of the Japanese Academy Awards I was looking on imdb and very few of the past winners are available on DVD here in America.
www.physicianbooks.com /MedicalBooks/isbnB00065GX0K.html   (322 words)

  
 A Taxing Woman Movie Review
Juzo Itami, the son of early Japanese film director Mansaku Itami, was originally a commercial artist that branched into acting, appearing in several films before taking up directing, after becoming tired of waiting for good acting roles to come his way.
It went on to sweep the Japanese Academy Awards and become one of the top-grossing films in Japan that year.
Ryoko Itakura (Nobuko Miyamoto, the director's wife and star of "The Funeral" and "Tampopo") is an auditor for the JRS.
www.mediacircus.net /taxing.html   (914 words)

  
 CNN.com - A perfect, golden 'Rings' - Mar. 2, 2004
Charlize Theron and Sean Penn both won their first-ever Academy Awards, taking home the Oscars for acting.
Aside from best picture and director, the awards "Return of the King" won were: adapted screenplay (Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens), song ("Into the West"), score (Howard Shore), visual effects, art direction, costume design, makeup, sound mixing and film editing.
Class was also reflected on the red carpet, which was colorfully glamorous after two years of relatively toned-down awards -- 2003's ceremony came weeks after the invasion of Iraq, and 2002's reflected the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/29/sprj.aa04.oscar.night   (1577 words)

  
 ALA | Kadohata, Henkes win Newbery, Caldecott Medals
Two sisters lie on their backs, watching the stars and repeating the Japanese word for “glittering” – “kira-kira.”  Like this quiet opening scene, Kadohata’s tenderly nuanced novel glitters with plain and poignant words that describe the strong love within a Japanese American family from the point of view of younger sister Katie.
Personal challenges and family tragedy are set against the oppressive social climate of the South during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Kevin Henkes was awarded the Caldecott Honor for “Owen” in 1994 and the Newbery Honor for “Olive’s Ocean” in 2004.
www.ala.org /ala/pressreleases2005/january2005a/caldnewberywinners.htm   (628 words)

  
 Turning Japanese - State of the Arts
In 2004, the 8th Japanese Film Festival presents a showcase of contemporary films that cover the vast spectrum of Japanese cinematic experience.
Winner of the 2003 Japanese Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, the film is set during the Meiji Period in the late 1800s, and tells the story of a common samurai in turbulent times.
Yoshimura leaves his loved ones and the hardships of his poor clan, to seek his fortune in the big city, in a renowned samurai faction.
www.stateart.com.au /sota/hit-list?fid=3074   (561 words)

  
 Animation best japanese
The JAA regularly put together programs to promote the newest and best of Japanese animation as well as old classics.
Documentary director and his cameraman interview a legendary Japanese actress who reveals the secret of her...
He was surprised when the Japanese film "Spirited Away" beat favorites "Lilo and Stitch" and "Ice Age" for the second Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2002.
www.eyeanimation.net /animation-best-japanese.html   (1745 words)

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