2009 Japanese Academy Award Nominations
Ken Watanabe in The Sun That Doesn’t Set / The Unbroken (Shizumanu Taiyo)
Setsurô Wakamatsu’s The Unbroken, inspired by the 1985 airplane crash that killed 520 people in what remains Japan’s worst airline disaster, is one of five films in the running for the Japanese Academy’s Best Picture award. (See partial list of nominees below.) The film’s star, Ken Watanabe, received a best actor nomination.
The other four Best Picture nominees are:
Isshin Inudou’s Zero Focus, a murder mystery set in postwar Japan
Daisaku Kimura’s The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones, about a group of men who set out to climb the unconquered peak in the early 1900s
Miwa Nishikawa’s Dear Doctor, in which a village doctor (best actor nominee Tsurube Shofukutei) is exposed [...]
by Irene Young | December 23, 2009
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Oscar 2008: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan
Tadanobu Asano of Mongol
Marketa Irglova, Glen Hansard
Photos: Matt Petit (Asano), Michael Yada (Hansard & Irglova, Ryan). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2008
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