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Awardees' List

2004 (1st)

Feature Length Competition (International) Grand Prize Willbur Wants to Kill Himself (Denmark)
Director: Lone Scherfig
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
Best Picture Eddie (Poland)
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Best New Director Bradley Rust Gray (Salt/Iceland-USA)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic) (International) Best Picture Classmates (Sweden)
Directors: Bjorn Carlstrom/Stefan Thunberg
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Excellence Cowardly Vicious (Korea)
Director: Kwan Lee
Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
Excellence Eternal Gaze (USA)
Director: Sam Chen
Sony D-Cinema Award: 500,000yen
Kawaguchi Special Screenings (Domestic) Grand Prize Vaudevillian Dolls Don't & Not
Director: Aki Funabik
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
Encouragement Award Walking with the Dog
Director: Makoto Shinozaki
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Canned Beauties
Director: Masaya Kakehi
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

2005 (2nd)

Feature Length Competition (International) Grand Prize Me and You and Everyone We Know (U.S.A.)
Director: Miranda July

Brothers (Denmark)
Director: Sussane Bier
Sony D-Cinema Award: each 5,500,000yen
Best New Director Marina Caba Rall (Last Minute/Germany)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
Best Technology Silver Ornaments (China)
Director: Jian Zhong Huang
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Special Jury Prize Angel (Japan)
Director: Mayumi Miyasaka
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic) (Domestic) Best Picture Coffee & Milk
Director: Izuru Kumasaka
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
Honorable Mention Your Secret & My Heart
Director: Takashi Kubota
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Fly Bubble Fly
Director: Katsunori Sato
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
Special Jury Prize Natchan in Summer
Director: Kotaro Sengoku

Turn Left on the Next Traffic Light
Director: Takeshi Shimojo

2006 (3rd)

Feature Length Competition (International) Grand Prize Contract (China)
Director: Lu Xuechang
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
Best New Director Alicia Scherson (Play/Chile-France-Argentina)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
Best Screenplay Schnitzel Paradise (The Netherlands)
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Best Technology Skritek (Czech Republic)
Director: Tomas Vorel
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Special Jury Prize Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds (Turkey)
Director: Ahmet Ulucay
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic) (Domestic) Honorable Mention tough guy ! 2005
Director: Shintaro Kishimoto
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Hana-Mushiro
Director: Shingo Yoshimura
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Bluebottle
Director: Mamiko Hiwatari
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
Special Jury Prize Catchball with Nicole
Director: Yukiyasu Asano

Monsieur Greenpeas
Director: Yasuo Kurita

2007 (4th)

Feature Length Competition (International) Grand Prize Climates (Turkey, France)
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
Best New Director Manuela Stacke (Children of the Moon/Germany)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
Best Screenplay Skies above the Landscape (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Director: Nenad Djuric
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Best Technology Skymaster, A Flying Family Fairytale (Denmark)
Directors: Michael Wikke & Steen Rasmussen
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Special Jury Prize Heartlines (South Africa)
Director: Angus Gibson
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic) (Domestic) Best Picture Let's Go Bang-Chow Dead or Alive complete edition
Director: Atsushi Suzuki
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
Honorable Mention Stardust Serenade
Director: Bunji Sotoyama
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

Twilight Clouds-First Love-
Directors: Akanemaru (Tazuko Aso& Tetsuya Kawaguchi)
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

2008 (5th)

Feature Length Competition (International) Grand Prize Arranged (USA)
Directors: Stephan Schaefer, Diane Crespo
Sony D-Cinema Award: 10,000,000yen
Best Director Listening to Gabriel(Spain)
Director: Jose Enrique March
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
Best Screenplay The Class (Estonia)
Director / Screenplay: Ilmar Raag
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Special Jury Prize Echo (Denmark)
Director: Anders Morgenthaler
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Special Jury Prize Lino (France)
Director: Jean Louis Milesi
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Short Length Competition (Domestic) (Domestic) Best Picture Elephant Mado
Director: HAMU (Shigeaki Kobayashi & Masato Honda)
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
Honorable Mention A Day of Black Long-Sleeved Kimono
Director: Kenji Shibayama
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
Honorable Mention Nozoki
Director: Kazuyuki Yoshii
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen

2009 (6th)

Feature Length Competition (International) Grand Prize No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (Taiwan)
Director: Leon Dai
Sony D-Cinema Award: 6,000,000yen
Best Director Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire 
Johnny Mad Dog (France, Belgium)
Sony D-Cinema Award: 2,000,000yen
Best Screenplay Nora's Will (Mexico)
Director: Mariana Chenillo
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
Special Jury Prize Here and There (Serbia, Germany, USA)
Director: Darko Lungulov
Sony D-Cinema Award: 1,000,000yen
SKIP City Award Lost Paradise in Tokyo (Japan)
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Short Length Competition (Domestic) (Domestic) Best Picture A Stone of the Sun
Director: Kiyoshi Endo
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 1,000,000yen
Honorable Mention Elemi
Director: Hideto Nakata
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
Honorable Mention Goldfish
Director: Shigeru Okada
Kawaguchi Citizens' Award: 500,000yen
Special Jury Prize Mmmo Cmmo
Director: Hiroaki Mimii
Disposing Your Relic - Mirai-do -
Director: Gosuke Tsuchida
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