Hochi Film Awards

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The Hochi Film Awards are film-specific prizes awarded by the Sports Hochi newspaper.

Best Picture: "0.5mm" (Momoko Ando)
Best Director: Takashi Koizumi ("A Samurai Chronicle")
Best Actor: Junichi Okada ("The Eternal Zero")
Best Actress: Rie Miyazawa ("Pale Moon")
Best Supporting Actor: Masahiko Tsugawa ("0.5mm")
Best Supporting Actress: Yuko Oshima ("Pale Moon")
Best New Artist: Nana Komatsu ("The World of Kanako")/Hiroomi Tosaka ("Hot Road")/Masafumi Nishida ("Oh Brother, Oh Sister!")
Best International Picture: Jersey Boys (Clint Eastwood)
Special Award: Ken Takakura

Best Picture: "The Great Passage" (Yuya Ishii)
Best Director: Kazuya Shiraishi ("The Devil's Path")
Best Actor: Ryuhei Matsuda ("The Great Passage")
Best Actress: Yoko Maki ("The Ravine of Goodbye")
Best Supporting Actor: Pierre Taki ("The Devil's Path/"Don't Lose Heart")
Best Supporting Actress: Chizuru Ikewaki ("The Great Passage"/"The Devil's Path"/"Beyond the Memories")
Best New Artist: Tatsuki Yoshioka ("A Boy Called H")
Best International Picture: 42 (Brian Helgeland)

Best Picture: "Key Of Life" (Kenji Uchida)
Best Director: Daihachi Yoshida ("The Kirishima Thing")
Best Actor: Ken Takakura ("Dearest")
Best Actress: Sayuri Yoshinaga ("A Chorus of Angels")
Best Supporting Actor: Mirai Moriyama ("Always: Sunset on Third Street 3"/"A Chorus of Angels")
Best Supporting Actress: Sakura Ando ("For Love's Sake"/"The Samurai That Night")
Best New Artist: Shinnosuke Mitsushima ("11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate")/Rena Nounen ("By Rule of Crow's Thumb")
Best International Picture: "Argo" (Ben Affleck)

Best Picture: "Rebirth" (Izuru Narushima)
Best Director: Sion Sono ("Cold Fish")
Best Actor: Masato Sakai ("Abacus and Sword"/"The Legacy of the Sun"/"My So Has Got Depression")
Best Actress: Hiromi Nagasaku ("Wandering Home"/"Rebirth")
Best Supporting Actor: Denden ("Cold Fish")
Best Supporting Actress: Nobuko Miyamoto ("Hankyu Railways")
Best New Artist: Mami Sunada ("Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman")
Best International Picture: "Moneyball" (Bennett Miller)
Special Award: Kaneto Shindo ("Post Card")

Best Picture: "Villain" (Sang-il Lee)
Best Director: Tetsuya Nakashima ("Confessions")
Best Actor: Etsushi Toyokawa ("A Good Husband"/"Sword Of Desperation")
Best Actress: Eri Fukatsu ("Villain")
Best Supporting Actor: Akira Emoto ("Villain")
Best Supporting Actress: Rie Tomosaka ("A Boy and His Samurai")
Best New Artist: Nanami Sakuraba ("Shodo Girls!! Watashitachi no koshien")/Takahiro Miura ("Railways")
Best International Picture: "Avatar" (James Cameron)

Best Picture: "The Unbroken"
Best Director: Miwa Nishikawa ("Dear Doctor")
Best Actor: Ken Watanabe ("The Unbroken")
Best Actress: Takako Matsu ("Villon's Wife")
Best Supporting Actor: Eita ("Dear Doctor")
Best Supporting Actress: Kaoru Yachigusa ("Dear Doctor")
Best New Artist: Hikari Mitsushima ("Love Exposure"), Masaki Okada ("Honokaa Boy")
Best International Picture: Gran Torino
Special Award: Michael Jackson’s This Is It

Best Picture: "I Just Didn't Do It" (Masayuki Suo)
Best Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita ("A Gentle Breeze in the Village"/"The Matsugane Potshot Affair")
Best Actor: Ryo Kase ("I Just Didn't Do It")
Best Actress: Kumiko Aso ("Yunagi City, Sakura Country")
Best Supporting Actor: Shiro Ito ("Talk, Talk, Talk"/"Maiko haaaan!!!")
Best Supporting Actress: Hiromi Nagasaku ("Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!")
Best New Artist: Kaho ("A Gentle Breeze in the Village")
Best International Picture: A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)

Best Picture: "Always: Sunset on Third Street" (Takashi Yamazaki)
Best Director: Kenji Uchida ("A Stranger of Mine")
Best Actor: Somegoro Ichikawa ("Ashura"/"The Samurai I Loved")
Best Actress: Yuko Tanaka ("Hibi"/"The Milkwoman")
Best Supporting Actor: Shinichi Tsutsumi ("Fly, Daddy, Fly"/"Always: Sunset on Third Street")
Best Supporting Actress: Hiroko Yakushimaru ("Always: Sunset on Third Street")
Best New Artist: Erika Sawajiri ("Break Through!")
Best International Picture: Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)

Best Picture: "Nobody Knows" (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Best Director: Yoichi Sai ("Blood and Bones")
Best Actor: Satoshi Tsumabuki ("Josee, the Tiger and the Fish"/"A Day on the Planet"/"69")
Best Actress: Takako Matsu ("The Hidden Blade")
Best Supporting Actor: Yoshio Harada ("A Boy's Summer in 1945 "/"The Face of Jizo"/"Niwatori wa hadashi da")
Best Supporting Actress: Masami Nagasawa ("Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World"/"Breathe In, Breathe Out")
Best New Artist: Anna Tsuchiya ("The Taste of Tea"/"Kamikaze Girls")
Best International Picture: Seabiscuit (Gary Ross)