Full awards and nominations of When the Last Sword is Drawn
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Action. Drama
One night in the Tokyo winter of 1899, as Dr Chiaki Ono (Takehiro Murata) and his wife are packing to move their surgery to Manchuria, they are visited by an elderly man with an ill grandson. Amidst the chaos of packing crates, the man, Hajime Saito (Koich Sato), spots an old photograph of a samurai, Kanichiro Yoshimura (Kiichi Nakai), whom he recognises from about thirty years earlier. The photo triggers in both Ono and Saito a ... [+]
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27th Japan Academy Film Prize
- winner Best Film
- nom. Best Director (Yōjirō Takita)
- winner Best Actor (Kiichi Nakai)
- winner Best Supporting Actor (Koichi Sato)
- nom. Best Supporting Actor (Yuji Miyake)
- nom. Best Supporting Actress (Miki Nakatani)
- nom. Best Cinematography (Takeshi Hamada)
- nom. Best Lighting Direction (Tatsuya Nagata)
- nom. Best Art Direction (Kyōko Heya)
- nom. Best Sound Recording (Osamu Onodera)
- nom. Best Film Editing (Isao Tomita, Nobuko Tomita)