The festival will give out the NIPPON CINEMA AWARD for the 16th time. The endowment of € 2,000 is donated by Bankhaus Metzler in Frankfurt am Main. All feature-length films in the NIPPON CINEMA section are eligible for the competition. The audience can vote for their favorite online at Watch.NipponConnection.com.

The winner of the Nippon Cinema Award 2021 is his by Rikiya IMAIZUMI!

Films in Competition for Nippon Cinema Award

Aristocrats by Yukiko SODE

BOLT by Kaizo HAYASHI

Can't Stop The Dancing by Shinobu YAGUCHI

Family Of Strangers by Hideyuki HIRAYAMA

A Girl Missing by Koji FUKADA

his by Rikiya IMAIZUMI

Hit Me Anyone One More Time by Koki MITANI

My Blood And Bones In A Flowing Galaxy by SABU

Our 30-Minute Sessions by Kentaro HAGIWARA

One Night by Kazuya SHIRAISHI

The Promised Land by Takahisa ZEZE

Red Post On Escher Street by Sion SONO

Sea Of Revival by Kazuya SHIRAISHI

Shiver by Toshiaki TOYODA

Special Actors by Shinichiro UEDA

The Stormy Family by Masahide ICHII

To The Ends Of The Earth by Kiyoshi KUROSAWA

Under The Open Sky by Miwa NISHIKAWA

Voices In The Wind by Nobuhiro SUWA

Wonderful Paradise by Masashi YAMAMOTO