The 45th Yokohama Film Festival (第45回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 4 February 2024. The awards were announced on 11 December 2023.^[1]

Awards

• Best Film: - Small, Slow But Steady^[2]
• Best Director: Yuya Ishii - Masked Hearts and The Moon
• Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial Best New Director: Takuya Katō - Fly On
• Best Screenplay: Atsushi Asada - I Am What I Am
• Best Cinematographer: Yūta Tsukinaga - Small, Slow But Steady
• Best Art Direction: Mitsuo Harada - Okiku and the World
• Best Actress:
  • Yukino Kishii - Small, Slow But Steady
  • Haru Kuroki - Okiku and the World
• Best Actor: Ryohei Suzuki - Egoist and Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie
• Best Supporting Actress: Kumi Nakamura - Takano Tofu and Undercurrent
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Hayato Isomura - (Ab)normal Desire, The Moon, Ripples, The Dry Spell and Hard Days
  • Kōichi Satō - Okiku and the World, Masked Hearts, Familia, Baian the Assassin, M.D. 2 and others
• Best Newcomer:
  • Mayu Hotta - Tsugaru Lacquer Girl
  • Ren Meguro - As Long as We Both Shall Live and Phases of the Moon
• Examiner Special Award: Shin'ichro Matsuura and the Boxing Movies involving him
• Special Grand Prize: Tatsuya Fuji

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