NIPPON CINEMA AWARD ª

At this year’s festival, the NIPPON CINEMA AWARD will be presented for the 20th time. This audience award, endowed with € 4,000, is donated by Metzler Bank in Frankfurt. All films in the NIPPON CINEMA section that have at least their German premiere at the festival and were either produced in Japan or made by Japanese directors since 2024 are eligible for the competition. The award ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at 7:45 p.m. at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Saal.

Nippon Cinema Award Competition Films

90 Years Old – So What? by Tetsu MAEDA
BAUS: The Ship’s Voyage Continues by Sora HOKIMOTO
BUSHIDO by Kazuya SHIRAISHI
Cells At Work! by Hideki TAKEUCHI
CHA-CHA by Mai SAKAI
Happyend by Neo SORA
Living In Two Worlds by Mipo O
MARU by Naoko OGIGAMI
My Sunshine by Hiroshi OKUYAMA
PRINCIPAL EXAMINATION by Dai SAKO
Rude To Love by Yukihiro MORIGAKI
A Samurai In Time by Junichi YASUDA
Serpent's Path (2024) by Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
She Taught Me Serendipity by Akiko OKU
The Solitary Gourmet by Yutaka MATSUSHIGE
SUPER HAPPY FOREVER by Kohei IGARASHI
Teki Cometh by Daihachi YOSHIDA
Transcending Dimensions by Toshiaki TOYODA
Worlds Apart by Natsuki SETA

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