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 [...]

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.