The Juzo Itami Award ( 伊丹十三賞 , Itami Jūzō Shō ) honors achievement and outstanding talent in any of the myriad fields in which its namesake Juzo Itami worked, including essay writing, non-fiction literature , translation , film editing and directing , cooking , television , TV commercials , acting , illustration , and graphic design . The prize, worth ¥ 1 million, is presented annually by the ITM Itami Memorial Foundation in collaboration with Itami Productions.
10-682: The selection committee comprises film director Masayuki Suo , architect Yoshifumi Nakamura [ ja ] , essayist Yoko Hiramatsu [ ja ] , and illustrator Shinbo Minami [ ja ] . The Juzo Itami Award was established in March 2009, twelve years after Itami's death, with the help of his wife, Nobuko Miyamoto . Originally focusing on excellence in literary expression in odd-numbered years and visual expression in even-numbered years, its two categories were unified and its cadence changed to yearly in 2011. In 2013, journalist Akira Ikegami donated his entire monetary award to
20-461: A film designed as a tribute and satire of Yasujirō Ozu 's Tokyo Story . In his book on the pink film, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008), Jasper Sharp calls Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride an early masterpiece, and one of the wittiest films ever made in the genre. Suo not only pokes gentle fun at Ozu's story, but also mimics many of his stylistic techniques, such as shooting his actors from
30-617: A low, tatami -mat angle, stiff and static characters speaking to each other with mis-matched eye-angles, and a simple, sentimental melody which accompanies the film. In the years since its release, the film has amused film students with the activity of locating and identifying Suo's many nods to Ozu and his oeuvre . Abnormal Family was Suo's only directorial work in the pink film genre. He next worked for Juzo Itami , to film "making of" pieces for that director's A Taxing Woman (1987) and A Taxing Woman 2 (1988). He made his regular feature film debut with Fancy Dance in 1989, and won
40-438: A production company called Unit 5. Suo worked as an assistant director and appeared in the cast of Kiyoshi Kurosawa 's directorial debut, the pink film Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983). At this early stage in his career, Suo also wrote scripts for the pink film genre, such as Scanty Panty Doll: Pungent Aroma (1983). Suo first film as director was also in the pink film genre: Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (1984),
50-767: Is a 2014 Japanese musical comedy film written and directed by Masayuki Suo , starring Mone Kamishiraishi , Hiroki Hasegawa , and Sumiko Fuji . It screened in competition at the 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival on June 16, 2014. It was released in Japan on September 13, 2014. Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter commented that "[Masayuki Suo] brings the same light, optimistic touch to bear as he did with his best known films, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and Shall We Dance? , which similarly revolved around gently non-conformist characters doing (and enjoying) what they shouldn’t in rigid Japan." Derek Elley of Film Business Asia wrote: "With no romance between pupil and master,
60-523: The Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his next feature, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't , in 1991. Suo's 1996 Shall We Dance? won fourteen awards at the Japanese Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Film and performed strongly in U.S. theaters. In 2006, Suo directed I Just Didn't Do It , a legal film starring Ryo Kase . It was followed by
70-551: The World Food Programme . This award -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Masayuki Suo Masayuki Suo ( 周防 正行 , Suo Masayuki , born October 29, 1956 ) is a Japanese film director . He is best known for his two Japan Academy Prize -winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance? . In 1982, along with filmmakers Yoshiho Fukuoka, Itsumichi Isomura, Toshiyuki Mizutani and Akira Yoneda, Suo founded
80-842: The 2012 medical-themed film A Terminal Trust . His musical film, Lady Maiko , screened at the 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival . In a 1997 interview with IndieWire , Suo talked about his filmmaking style: "The most important thing for me in movie making is to love the characters of the movie, so even though you only have a few seconds with a character, that person has to have his own life. Therefore, I want to respect it, I want to make movies where each character has his own individuality." "Naze Ozu Dattanoka" in Ozu Yasujiro Taizen ( The Complete Book of Ozu Yasujiro ) by Matsuura Kanji and Miyamoto Akiko (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. 2019) ISBN 9784022515995 Lady Maiko Lady Maiko ( 舞妓はレディ , Maiko wa Lady )
90-403: The film lacks a strong emotional arc to involve an audience; in its place is just Haruko's own story of wanting to become a geisha, and here Kamishiraishi's performance as the underdog who eventually triumphs manages to carry the day." Mark Shilling of The Japan Times gave the film 3 and a half stars out of 5, saying, "Kamishiraishi, the 16-year-old newcomer who beat out 800 other aspirants for
100-491: The lead role, is a diminutive vocal dynamo and a good fit as the country-girl heroine, right down to her native Kagoshima dialect." Kwenton Bellette of Twitch Film felt that "[the] beautiful tourist-baiting scenes of Kyoto and the geisha district are brought to vivid life thanks to the detail-laden environment and costume design although the film contains itself to one tea-house through the majority of its length." Maggie Lee of Variety wrote: "Craft contributions are aces,
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