Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year

The Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year, also called the Kinema Junpo Best Ten Award for Best Japanese Film is given by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo as part of its annual Kinema Junpo Best Ten awards. Each film selected into the Japanese Film Best Ten list receives an award, the highest ranked one becoming Best Japanese Film accordingly. The award was first given in 1927, but regarded the 1926 season (since then, every award has been given for movies released in the previous year). Here is a list of the award winners.[citation needed]

Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year
Awarded forBest Feature Film of the Year
CountryJapan
Presented byKinema Junpo
First awarded1927
WebsiteKinema Junpo Awards

Winners

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Year Film (s) Japanese title Director
1927 Ashi ni sawatta onna 足にさはった女 Yutaka Abe
1928 A Diary of Chuji's Travels 忠次旅日記 Daisuke Itō
1929 Jobless Samurai 旋風児 Masahiro Makino
1930 Beheading Place 明烏夢泡雪 Masahiro Makino
1931 What Made Her Do It? 何が彼女をそうさせたか Shigeyoshi Suzuki
1932 The Neighbor's Wife and Mine マダムと女房 Heinosuke Gosho
1933 I Was Born, But... 大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど Yasujirō Ozu
1934 Passing Fancy 出来ごころ Yasujirō Ozu
1935 A Story of Floating Weeds 浮草物語 Yasujirō Ozu
1936 Wife! Be Like a Rose! 妻よ薔薇のやうに Mikio Naruse
1937 Sisters of the Gion 祇園の姉妹 Kenji Mizoguchi
1938 Limitless Advance 限りなき前進 Tomu Uchida
1939 Five Scouts 五人の斥候兵 Tomotaka Tasaka
1940 Tsuchi Tomu Uchida
1941 Kojima no haru 小島の春 Shirō Toyoda
1942 The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family 戸田家の兄妹 Yasujirō Ozu
1943 The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay ハワイ・マレー沖海戦 Kajirō Yamamoto
1947 Morning for the Osone Family 大曾根家の朝 Keisuke Kinoshita
1948 A Ball at the Anjo House 安城家の舞踏会 Kōzaburō Yoshimura
1949 Drunken Angel 酔いどれ天使 Akira Kurosawa
1950 Late Spring 晩春 Yasujirō Ozu
1951 Until We Meet Again また逢う日まで Tadashi Imai
1952 Early Summer 麦秋 Yasujirō Ozu
1953 Ikiru 生きる Akira Kurosawa
1954 An Inlet of Muddy Water にごりえ Tadashi Imai
1955 Twenty-Four Eyes 二十四の瞳 Keisuke Kinoshita
1956 Floating Clouds 浮雲 Mikio Naruse
1957 Darkness at Noon 真昼の暗黒 Tadashi Imai
1958 The Rice People Tadashi Imai
1959 The Ballad of Narayama 楢山節考 Keisuke Kinoshita
1960 Kiku to Isamu キクとイサム Tadashi Imai
1961 Her Brother おとうと Kon Ichikawa
1962 Bad Boys 不良少年 Susumu Hani
1963 Being Two Isn't Easy 私は二歳 Kon Ichikawa
1964 The Insect Woman にっぽん昆虫記 Shohei Imamura
1965 The Woman in the Dunes 砂の女 Hiroshi Teshigahara
1966 Red Beard 赤ひげ Akira Kurosawa
1967 The Great White Tower 白い巨塔 Satsuo Yamamoto
1968 Samurai Rebellion 上意討ち 拝領妻始末 Masaki Kobayashi
1969 The Profound Desire of the Gods 神々の深き欲望 Shōhei Imamura
1970 Double Suicide 心中天網島 Masahiro Shinoda
1971 Where Spring Comes Late 家族 Yoji Yamada
1972 The Ceremony 儀式 Nagisa Oshima
1973 The Long Darkness 忍ぶ川 Kei Kumai
1974 Tsugaru Folk Song 津軽じょんがら節 Kōichi Saitō
1975 Sandakan No. 8 サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 Kei Kumai
1976 Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director ある映画監督の生涯 溝口健二の記録 Kaneto Shindo
1977 The Youth Killer 青春の殺人者 Kazuhiko Hasegawa
1978 The Yellow Handkerchief 幸福の黄色いハンカチ Yoji Yamada
1979 Third Base サード Yōichi Higashi
1980 Vengeance Is Mine 復讐するは我にあり Shōhei Imamura
1981 Zigeunerweisen ツィゴイネルワイゼン Seijun Suzuki
1982 Muddy River 泥の河 Kōhei Oguri
1983 Fall Guy 蒲田行進曲 Kinji Fukasaku
1984 The Family Game 家族ゲーム Yoshimitsu Morita
1985 The Funeral お葬式 Juzo Itami
1986 And Then それから Yoshimitsu Morita
1987 The Sea and Poison 海と毒薬 Kei Kumai
1988 A Taxing Woman マルサの女 Juzo Itami
1989 My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ Hayao Miyazaki
1990 Black Rain 黒い雨 Shohei Imamura
1991 The Cherry Orchard 櫻の園 Shun Nakahara
1992 My Sons 息子 Yōji Yamada
1993 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't シコふんじゃった。 Masayuki Suo
1994 All Under the Moon 月はどっちに出ている Yōichi Sai
1995 A Dedicated Life 全身小説家 Kazuo Hara
1996 A Last Note 午後の遺言状 Kaneto Shindo
1997 Shall We Dance? Shall we ダンス? Masayuki Suo
1998 The Eel うなぎ Shohei Imamura
1999 Fireworks はなび Takeshi Kitano
2000 Wait and See あ、春 Shinji Sōmai
2001 Face Junji Sakamoto
2002 Go ゴー Isao Yukisada
2003 The Twilight Samurai たそがれ清兵衛 Yōji Yamada
2004 A Boy's Summer in 1945 美しい夏キリシマ Kazuo Kuroki
2005 Nobody Knows 誰も知らない Hirokazu Kore-eda
2006 Break Through! 박치기,パッチギ! Kazuyuki Izutsu
2007 Hula Girls フラガール Lee Sang-il
2008 I Just Didn't Do It それでもボクはやってない Masayuki Suo
2009 Departures おくりびと Yōjirō Takita
2010 Dear Doctor ディア・ドクター Miwa Nishikawa
2011 Villain 悪人 Lee Sang-il
2012 Postcard 一枚のハガキ Kaneto Shindo
2013 Our Homeland かぞくのくに Yang Yong-hi
2014 Pecoross' Mother and Her Days ペコロスの母に会いに行く Azuma Morisaki
2015 The Light Shines Only There そこのみにて光輝く Mipo O
2016 Three Stories of Love 恋人たち Ryōsuke Hashiguchi
2017 In This Corner of the World この世界の片隅に Sunao Katabuchi
2018 The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue 夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ Yuya Ishii
2019 Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda
2020 It Feels So Good 火口のふたり Haruhiko Arai
2021 Wife of a Spy スパイの妻 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2022 Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2023 Small, Slow But Steady ケイコ 目を澄ませて Shō Miyake
2024 Okiku and the World せかいのおきく Junji Sakamoto
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