Only the rest of the world got it and its director, Akira Kurosawa.

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Other recipients of the award include film director Akira Kurosawa and Japan's women's national soccer team that won the World Cup in 2011.

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It came in ahead of ahead of more widely known films like Japanese Akira Kurosawa's "Shichinin no samurai" ("Seven Samurai"), which took second place and "Wo hu cang long" ("Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon") by Taiwan's Ang Lee, which snared third.

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