A total of 13 books. "The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness" 1st Best Picture Award Director: Yoji Yamada Cast: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Kaori Momoi, Tetsuya Takeda "The Call of the Distant Mountains" 4th Best Screenplay Award Cast: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho "Station" 5th Best Picture Award Screenplay: So Kuramoto Cast: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Ayumi Ishida, Kunie Tanaka, Setsuko Karasuma, Kenpachi Nezu, Ryudo Uzaki "Yohkiro" 7th Best Director Award Director: Hideo Gosha Original work: Tomiko Miyao Cast: Ken Ogata, Kimiko Ikegami, Atsuko Asano "The Funeral" 8th Best Picture Award Director: Juzo Itami Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Hideji Otaki "Hana Ichimonme" 9th Best Picture Award Cast: Sachiyo Tenju, Teruhiko Saigo, Minoru Chiaki "Early Spring Story" 9th Best Director Award Cast: Tomoyo Harada, Ryuzo Hayashi, Kunie Tanaka Original work: Jiro Akagawa "A Taxing Woman" 11th Best Picture Award Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Isao Hashizume "Dun-Huang" 12th Best Picture Award Original work: Yasushi Inoue Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida, Koichi Sato, Akira Emoto "Black Rain" 13th Best Picture Award Director: Shohei Imamura Original work: Ibuse Masuji Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara "Shall We Dance?" 20th Best Picture Award Director: Masayuki Suo Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Hideko Hara, Naoto Takenaka "The Eel" 21st Japan Academy Award Best Director Award Original work: Akira Yoshimura "Yami ni Hirameku" Cast: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto, Mitsuko Baisho "Poppoya" 23rd Best Picture Award Cast: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Otake, Ryoko Hirosue, Takayuki Yoshioka, Ken Shimura