<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">The Finnish distributor of Umimachi no Diary, when I emailed him about Ayase’s actress award, asks: who are the Mainichi film awards? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Meaning: how do they select the award winners? Who selects? Why is this relevant in Japan?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eija</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Gerow Aaron <<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" class="">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>> kirjoitti 21.1.2016 kello 3.05:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The Mainichi Film Awards were announced, with Hashiguchi Ryosuke's Koibitotachi getting best film. Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Kishibe no tabi got the award for excellence (second place). Tsukamoto Shin'ya was chosen as both best director and best actor, while Ayase Haruka got best actress. Best documentary was John Junkerman's Okinawa: The Afterburn. Hara Keiichi's Miss Hokusai got the best animated film award.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Awards are celebrating their 70th anniversary this year.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://mainichi.jp/articles/20160121/k00/00m/040/131000c" class="">http://mainichi.jp/articles/20160121/k00/00m/040/131000c</a></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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