Awards - Best Cinematography (Noboru Shinoda) 1997 Japanese Academy Awards - Best Film 1997 Japanese Academy Awards - Best Lighting (Yūki Nakamura) 1997 Japanese Academy Awards - Best Sound (Osamu Takizawa) 1997 Japanese Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actress (Ayumi Ito) 1997 Moscow Film Festival - Golden St. George Award References External links 1996 crime films 1996 films Dystopian films Films about immigration Films directed by Shunji Iwai Films produced by Kazutoshi Wadakura Japanese crime films 1990s Japanese-language films Mandarin-language films Yakuza films 1990s English-language films 1990s Japanese films