Miyake Sho’s female-led boxing drama “Small, Slow, But Steady” has been named the best Japanese film of 2022 by Kinema Junpo magazine. This honor has been awarded annually since …
magazine. This honor has been awarded annually since 1924 and is considered the Japanese industry’s most prestigious. Kishii Yukino, who starred as a struggling deaf boxer, claimed the best actress award, while Miura Tomokazu, who played her supportive, but unsparingly, honest gym manager, was named best supporting actor. Finally, Miyake was voted the year’s best Japanese director in a readers’ poll. The film premiered in the Berlin festival’s Encounters section last year.
Among other awards, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” was named best foreign film, while veteran Takahashi Banmei won the best director prize and Kajiwara Aki the best screenplay award for the drama “No Place to Go” about a middle-aged woman driven to homelessness during the pandemic. Also, pop star and actor Sawada Kenji was awarded best actor honors for his portrayal of a writer living the natural life in a cabin the woods in Nakae Yuji’s drama “The Zen Diary.
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