[KineJapan] Mainichi Film Awards

[quentin turnour]

Aaron - always look forward to you January announcements of the winners of the main Japanese film awards. Thank you again.
But from faulty memory, does your annual Mainichi awards alert normally come after the announcement of the Kinema Junpo Best Ten? And am I right that this year the Kinema Junpo prizes have been delayed to later than usual?
 I was in their website a few days again, trying to get a fix on a) when the awards would be announced and b) what the magazine was planning for it’s July 2019 centennial. A lot of help from Google Translate suggested the 2019 awards are scheduled for mid-February. If so, I wonder if doing so might be a lead in to 2019 centennial celebration activities? Any rumours or intel on what’s being planned? 
As one of the oldest surviving film journals of record anywhere, the centennial of course should be an anniversary of international interest to film scholars (... even if sadly it won’t be, at least beyond places like KineJapan).
Quentin TurnourNational Archive of Australia.

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On Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 1:42 pm, Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:


The Mainichi Film Awards were announced, with Koreeda's Shoplifters (which just got nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars today) being selected as best film. Zeze's Chrysanthemum and Guillotine was selected for the award of excellence, which is essentially second place. Ando Sakura got best actress, and her husband Emoto Tasuku got best actor. Best director went to Ueda Shinichiro of One Cut of the Dead.
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20190122/k00/00m/040/269000c?fbclid=IwAR1Li6Uoak7C9WQdX6RAeN_2EDuta_p9VUiEVHNTe5miSY5BAXX-zPQ-PH0

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