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Actress Shim Eun-kyung won the Kinema Junbo Best Actress Award, one of the oldest prestigious film awards in Japanese cinema, for her film Travel and Days.
Shim Eun-kyung's agency "Fanfare" said on the 30th, "Shim Eun-kyung won the 99th Kinema Junbo Best Ten Actress Award in 2025, one of the prominent award ceremonies in Japan for the movie "Travel and Days."
Shim Eun-kyung said, "I sincerely thank you for giving me such a great award. I'm happy just to meet this work like a miracle, but I'm really happy to win the award, he said. "I think many people around the world will also be fascinated by the world view of director Miyake Shaw, which can be seen in Travel and Days."
Founded in 1919, Kinema Junbo is a film magazine that recognizes Japan's most prestigious authority. Every year, the film of the year 'Best 10' is released, and it is considered one of the prestigious awards ceremonies in the Japanese film industry, along with the Japanese Academy Award, the Blue Ribbon Award, and the Mainichi Film Competition.
Junbo Kinema, who celebrated her 99th anniversary this year, officially announced the news of her lead role Shim Eun-kyung's Best Actress Award at the same time as the film "Travel and Days" was ranked No. 1 in the top 10 prior to the award ceremony. As a result, Shim Eun-kyung became the first Korean actor to win the Kinema Jumbo Best Actress Award, and it is special because it is the first time a foreign actor has won Ruby Moreno's prize in 1993 in "On Which Side of the Moon Is Floating" (Director Sai Yoichi).
He has already become the first Korean actor to win the Japanese Academy Award, the Mainichi Film Competition, and the Takasaki Film Festival through the 2020 film "Newspaper," and has dominated Japan's oldest film magazine and the Kiname Junbo Awards, where film reporters, critics and others select the best works and actors, proving how unrivaled Shim Eun-kyung is on the world stage.
The movie "Travels and Days" drew high expectations from the beginning with the meeting between Miyake Shaw, a young master director who is currently drawing the most attention worldwide, and Shim Eun-kyung, a Korean actor who is establishing himself as a global actor by winning the best actress award in Korea, Japan and two countries.
The film "Travel and Days" won the Golden Leopard Award, the highest prize, at the Locarno International Film Festival, one of the world's six largest film festivals, and was named the 99th Kinema Jumbo Best Ten. In addition, he was invited to the 73rd San Sebastian International Film Festival, the 22nd Reykjavik International Film Festival, the 33rd Hamburg Film Festival, and the 30th Busan International Film Festival, drawing global attention.
Shim Eun-kyung, the main character of the film, was previously nominated for the 38th Nikkan Sports Film Awards, one of Japan's prominent award ceremonies, and the 36th Singapore International Film Festival's Best Actress Award, which spotlights innovative works in Asia, and was nominated for the 80th Mainichi Film Competition, hosted by Mainichi and Sports Nippon newspapers. In particular, this category is more meaningful as the main actor category, which is integrated regardless of male or female actors. In addition, he showed a clear presence on the international stage with the feat of winning the 99th Kiname Junbo Best Actress Award.
"Travels and Days," which was highly praised for its delicate and dense acting skills as well as the amazing mise-en-scène and director's outstanding directing skills, continues to be a long-running hit in Japan and Korea, and is greatly loved by the audience. Expectations are high on what Shim Eun-kyung, who is raising her status as a Korean actor by working in various works on the global stage without limitations in her country and language, will create through "Travel and Days."
Meanwhile, the 99th Kinema Junbo Awards will be held on Feb. 19, and Shim Eun-kyung is adjusting her schedule to attend the ceremony.
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