NIPPON CINEMA AWARD

For the ninth time already, the festival will see a winner of the NIPPON CINEMA AWARD. The award is sponsored by Bankhaus Metzler from Frankfurt, donating the prize money of 2,000 €. All films from the NIPPON CINEMA section that have at least their German premiere at the festival, participate in the competition. The audience can choose their favourite from 20 films. The award ceremony will take place at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm on Sunday, 9 June 2013, at 19:45, preceding the screening of A LETTER TO MOMO

Dreams for Sale (Yume uru futari) by Miwa NISHIKAWA
The Drudgery Train (Kueki ressha) by Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Eden by Masaharu TAKE
Flashback Memories by Tetsuaki MATSUE
For Love's Sake (Ai to Makoto) by Takashi MIIKE
I'm Flash! by Toshiaki TOYODA
Isn't Anyone Alive? (Ikiteru mono wa inainoka) by Gakuryu ISHII
Key of Life (Kagidorobou no mesoddo) by Kenji UCHIDA
The Kirishima Thing (Kirishima, bukatsu yamerutteyo) by Daihachi YOSHIDA
The Land of Hope (Kibo no kuni) by Sion SONO
Odayaka (Odayaka na nichijo) by Nobuteru UCHIDA
Outrage Beyond by Takeshi KITANO
Princess Sakura: Forbidden Pleasures (Sakura hime) by Hajime HASHIMOTO
See You Tomorrow, Everyone (Minasan, sayonara) by Yoshihiro NAKAMURA
Shady (Kashikoi inu wa hoezu ni warau) by Ryohei WATANABE
A Story of Yonosuke (Yokomichi Yonosuke) by Shuichi OKITA
Thermae Romae by Hideki TAKEUCHI
Tug of War! (Tsuna hiichatta!) by Nobuo MIZUTA
The Warped Forest (Asatte no mori) by Shunichiro MIKI
Yellow Elephant (Kiiroi Zou) by Ryuichi HIROKI