Japanese Awards: Pink Grand Prix, Yokohama Film Festival, Japanese Adult Video Awards, AV Open, Adult Broadcasting Awards

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Pink Grand Prix, Yokohama Film Festival, Japanese Adult Video Awards, AV Open, Adult Broadcasting Awards, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Photographic Society of Japan, Tokyo Anime Award, Pinky Ribbon Awards, Bungeishunjū Manga Award, Japan Prize, Japan Academy Prize, Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Person of Cultural Merit, C&C Prize, Higashikawa Prize, Takeda Awards, People's Honour Award, Kimura Ihei Award, Photo City Sagamihara, Domon Ken Award, Ina Nobuo Award, Society of Photography Award, Miki Jun Award, Keio Medical Science Prize, Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, Taro Okamoto Award, Asahi Prize, Otaka prize. Excerpt: The Pink Grand Prix pink taishō) or PG Film Prize PG eiga taishō, Pink film festival or Pink Prize) is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the Academy Awards of the Pink Film, the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public. Pink film scholar Jasper Sharp calls it the high point of the year for the pink film community. PG, the leading magazine focusing on the genre, hosts the Pink Grand Prix in April of each year as a review of pink films released the previous year. The top ten films are selected by a readers' poll, and the top five films are screened during the evening of the ceremony held at the Kameari-za theater in Aoto, Tokyo until its closing in 1999, and at the Shinbungeiza theater thereafter. PG magazine was founded by Yoshiyuki Hayashida in July 1994. The magazine was preceded by the limited-circulation New Zoom-up, which Hayashida started in 1989, and which held the first Pink Grand Prix awards beginning that year, covering films released in 1988. Including the New Zoom-up years, the Pink Grand Prix reached its 20th anniversary with ...