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The 18th Yokohama Film Festival (第18回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 2 February 1997 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Awards

• Best Film: Kids Return
• Best Actor:
  • Tadanobu Asano – Picnic, Focus, Helpless, Acri
  • Kōji Yakusho – Shall We Dance?, Nemuru Otoko, Shabu Gokudō
• Best Actress: Eri Fukatsu – Haru
• Best Supporting Actor: Ryo Ishibashi – Kids Return
• Best Supporting Actress: Reiko Kusamura – Shall We Dance?
• Best Director: Masayuki Suo – Shall We Dance?
• Best New Director: Sabu – Dangan Runner
• Best Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Morita – Haru
• Best Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagishima – Kids Return
• Best New Talent:
  • Masanobu Andō – Kids Return
  • Chara – Picnic, Swallowtail
  • Tamiyo Kusakari – Shall We Dance?
• Special Jury Prize: Kaizo Hayashi – Waga Jinsei Saiaku no Toki, Harukana Jidai no Kaidan o, and Wana
• Special Prize: Tetsuya Watari Waga Kokoro no Ginga Tetsudō: Miyazawa Kenji Monogatari (Career)

Best 10

1. Kids Return
2. Shall We Dance?
3. Boys Be Ambitious
4. Haru
5. Biriken
6. Tokiwasō no Seishun
7. Ohigara mo Yoku Goshūshōsama
8. Shabu Gokudō
9. Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
10. Okaeri

runner-up. Swallowtail

References

1. ^ "Yokohama Film Festival: 1997". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
2. "第１８回ヨコハマ映画祭: １９９６年日本映画個人賞" (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival homepage. 2005-10-30. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
3. "１９９６年度　日本映画ベストテン". homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

• Yokohama Film Festival
• 1997 film festivals
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• 1997 festivals in Asia
• February 1997 events in Japan