2016 (16th) Nippon Connection Contents 1 Profile 2 Awards 3 Program 3.1 Nippon Cinema 3.2 Nippon Visions 3.3 Nippon Animation Profile Film Festival: Nippon Connection Edition: 16th Period: May 24-29, 2016 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Awards Nippon Cinema AWards 2016 - "Ryuzo And The Seven Henchmen" (Takeshi Kitano) Nippon Visions Audience Award 216 - "Under The Cherry Tree" (Kei Tanaka) Nippon Visions Jury Award 2016 - "Dear Deer" (Takeo Kikuchi) Nippon Visions Jury's Special Mentions: "The Man Who Was Eaten" (Keisuke Kondo) "Under The Cherry Tree" (Kei Tanaka) Program Nippon Cinema "A Cappella" - Hitoshi Yazaki (Japan) *German Premiere "The Actor" - Satoko Yokohama (Japan) *German Premiere "Being Good" - Mipo O (Japan) *German Premiere "The Birth of Saké" - Erik Shirai (USA) "Creepy" - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan) "Cure" - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan) "Flying Colors" - Nobuhiro Doi (Japan) *German Premiere "Gonin Saga" - Takashi Ishii (Japan) *German Premiere "Hibana" - various (Japan) *International Premiere "The Inerasable" - Yoshihiro Nakamura (Japan) *German Premiere "Journey to the Shore" - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan) "Love & Peace" - Sion Sono (Japan) *German Premiere "Lowlife Love" - Eiji Uchida (Japan) *German Premiere "The Mohican Comes Home" - Shuichi Okita (Japan) *German Premiere "Nagasaki: Memories of My Son" - Yoji Yamada (Japan) *International Premiere "Pieta in the Toilet" - Daishi Matsunaga (Japan) "Pink and Gray" - Isao Yukisada (Japan) *European Premiere "Ryuzo And The Seven Henchmen" - Takeshi Kitano (Japan) *German Premiere "That's It" - Gakuryu Ishii (Japan) *German Premiere "Their Distance" - Rikiya Imaizumi (Japan) *International Premiere "Three Stories of Love" - Ryosuke Hashiguchi (Japan) *German Premiere "Tokyo Sonata" - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan) "The Whispering Star" - Sion Sono (Japan) Nippon Visions "Anohito: The One" - Ichiro Yamamoto (Japan) *German Premiere "The Ark in the Mirage" - Yasutomo Chikuma (Japan) *German Premiere "Be the World for Her" - Daisuke Hosaka (Japan) "Dear Deer" - Takeo Kikuchi (Japan) *European Premiere "Doglegs" - Heath Cozens (Japan/USA) *European Premiere "Dryads in a Snow Valley" - Shigeru Kobayashi (Japan) *European Premiere "Good Stripes" - Yukiko Sode (Japan) *International Premiere "Hakodate Coffee" - Hiroshi Nishio (Japan) *International Premiere "Her Father, My Lover" - Kenji Yamauchi (Japan) *International Premiere "Katabui: In The Heart of Okinawa" - Daniel Lopez (Japan/Switzerland) *World Premiere "Ken and Kazu" - Hiroshi Shoji (Japan) *International Premiere "Landscapes After 3/11" - Takamasa Iwasaki (Japan) *German Premiere "Live Fashionably or Die" - Yukio Tanaka (Japan) *International Premiere "The Look" - Atsushi Urabe (Japan) *European Premiere "A Lullaby Under The Nuclear Sky" - Tomoko Kana (Japan) *German Premiere "The Man Who Was Eaten" - Keisuke Kondo (Japan) *International Premiere "My Technicolor Girl" - Rei Sakamoto (Japan) *International Premiere "Oyster Factory" - Kazuhiro Soda (Japan) *German Premiere "Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn" - Juichiro Yamasaki (Japan) *German Premiere "The Sheep Story" - Ken Kawai (Japan) *International Premiere "Under The Cherry Tree" - Kei Tanaka (Japan) *German Premiere Nippon Animation "The Case of Hana & Alice" - Shunji Iwai (Japan) *German Premiere "The Empire of Corpses" - Ryotaro Makihara (Japan) *German Premiere "When Marnie Was There" - Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Japan) "Harmony" - Takashi Nakamura & Michael Arias (Japan) *German Premiere "Miss Hokusai" - Keiichi Hara (Japan) "Twilight of the Cockroaches" - Hiroaki Yoshida (Japan) Page Discussion View View source History