The6th Japan Film Professional Awards (第6回日本映画プロフェッショナル大賞) is the 6th edition of theJapan Film Professional Awards. It awarded the best of1996 in film. The ceremony took place on April 12, 1997, at Theatre Shinjuku inTokyo.^[1][2]

• Best Film:Helpless [jp]
• Best Director:Takeshi Kitano (Kids Return)
• Best Actress:Maiko Kawakami (Debeso [jp])
• Best Actor:Tadanobu Asano (Helpless [jp],Focus [jp])
• Best New Director:Shinji Aoyama (Helpless [jp],Chinpira)
• Special:Tatsuoki Hosono [jp] (Shabu Gokudō [jp])
• Best Distinguished Service:Tomorowo Taguchi (Midori,Dangan Runner)
• Best Distinguished Service:Mai Kitajima [jp] (Gonin2 [jp])

1. Helpless [jp] (Shinji Aoyama)
2. Kids Return (Takeshi Kitano)
3. Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (Kazuyuki Izutsu)
4. Shabu Gokudō [jp] (Tatsuoki Hosono [jp])
5. Don't Look Up (Hideo Nakata)
6. Okaeri [jp] (Makoto Shinozaki)
7. Romance (Shunichi Nagasaki)
8. Gonin2 [jp] (Takashi Ishii)

• Official website(in Japanese)

• 1996 film awards
• 1997 in Japanese cinema
• Japan Film Professional Awards
• April 1997 in Japan

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