Categories: short films with length of 10 minutes (10 seconds over or less permissible)

Requirements: submission should be sent on DVD

Awards: 10 awards in total with cash prizes of over 6 millions yens.

Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition pursues innovative ways of adding new dimensions to the art of filmmaking, encourages new expressionists to step into the light, and launches these fresh talents to the rest of the world. This Competition seeks to become a platform for yet-to-be-discovered talents to come together from around the world, showcasing their broad and wide diversity of works and gifts. This Competition and has been held annually since its first event in 2005.

Award winning works will be edited into an omnibus film to be released in theaters and distributed as DVDs (available only in Japan).