The No. 1 work and individual award for each category of "Kinema Junpo Best Ten", which commends the movie representing last year, was announced, and "Spy's Wife" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa became No. 1 in Japanese movies.
Organized by the movie magazine "Kinema Junpo", this award is the oldest movie award in Japan, where movie critics and others select the movie that represents the year by voting. On the 4th, the category of Japanese movies and foreign movies The 1st place work for each and the individual awards given to directors and actors were announced.
This time, the announcement of the award and the award ceremony with no audience were delivered online for the first time, and among them, "Spy's Wife" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa was ranked first in Japanese movies.
This film is about a man and his wife who accidentally learned a state secret just before the Pacific War and tried to make it public for justice. Director Kurosawa directed this film at the Venice International Film Festival in Italy. It has been selected for the award.
Director Kurosawa commented on the fact that he was selected as the first place, saying, "Japanese films have rarely realized the structure of entertainment films such as suspense and soap opera while focusing on the very heavy theme of war. I think it was evaluated including its novelty. "
On the other hand, in foreign films, director Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite Semi-Underground Family" ranked first, and director Bong Joon-ho won the Foreign Film Director's Award.
In addition, Director Nobuhiko Obayashi, who died last April and whose last work was "The Labyrinth of Cinemas-Kinema's Tamatebako," was selected for the Directors Guild of Japan.
The works selected after the second place in each category will be announced in the magazine of "Kinema Junpo" to be released on the 5th.