Mainichi Concours

[Aaron Gerow]

For those of you interested in the "reasons" and "process" behind some of 
Japan's major film awards, the morning edition of today's Mainichi 
Shinbun has printed the review of this Mainichi Concours.  It not only 
includes lists of the various juries (and they have different ones for 
different awards) and appraisals of the winners, they even include the 
results of initial ballots.  This is interesting because sometimes 
someone who did not became the winner in subsequent ballots was on top at 
first.  For instance, Suwa Nobuhiro was on top for best director for 
_M/Other_ in the first ballot, but when they narrowed it down to him and 
Morita, Morita won.

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
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