Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

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Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film
Awarded forBest Performance by a Film
Country Flag of Japan.svg Japan
Presented byThe Association of Tokyo Film Journalists
First awarded1950

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film is a prize recognizing excellence in Japanese film. It is awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards. Filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Tadashi Imai and Mikio Naruse are among those who have received the award. Best Film winners Kagemusha (1980) and The Twilight Samurai (2002) also received an Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. [1] [2]

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List of winners

No.YearFilmDirector
11950 Until We Meet Again Tadashi Imai
21951 Repast Mikio Naruse
31952 Lightning Mikio Naruse
41953 An Inlet of Muddy Water Tadashi Imai
51954 Twenty-Four Eyes Keisuke Kinoshita
61955 Floating Clouds Mikio Naruse
71956 Mahiru no ankoku Tadashi Imai
81957 The Rice People Tadashi Imai
91958 The Hidden Fortress Akira Kurosawa
101959 Kiku to Isamu Tadashi Imai
111960 Her Brother Kon Ichikawa
121961 Pigs and Battleships Shohei Imamura
131962 Foundry Town Kirio Urayama
141963 The Insect Woman Shohei Imamura
151964 The Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara
161965 Red Beard Akira Kurosawa
171966 Shiroi Kyotō Satsuo Yamamoto
181975 The Fossil Masaki Kobayashi
191976 Lullaby of the Earth Yasuzo Masumura
201977 The Yellow Handkerchief Yoji Yamada
211978 Third Base Yōichi Higashi
221979 Vengeance Is Mine Shōhei Imamura
231980 Kagemusha Akira Kurosawa
241981 Muddy River Kōhei Oguri
251982 Fall Guy Kinji Fukasaku
261983 Tokyo Trial Masaki Kobayashi
271984 MacArthur's Children Masahiro Shinoda
281985 Ran Akira Kurosawa
291986 House of Wedlock Kichitaro Negishi
301987 A Taxing Woman Juzo Itami
311988 The Silk Road Junya Satō
321989 Dotsuitarunen Junji Sakamoto
331990 Childhood Days Masahiro Shinoda
341991 A Scene at the Sea Takeshi Kitano
351992 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't Masayuki Suo
361993 All Under the Moon Yōichi Sai
371994 Like a Rolling Stone Tatsumi Kumashiro
381995 A Last Note Kaneto Shindo
391996 Boys Be Ambitious Kazuyuki Izutsu
401997 Bounce Ko Gals Masato Harada
411998 Hana-bi Takeshi Kitano
421999 Gohatto Nagisa Oshima
432000 Battle Royale Kinji Fukasaku
442001 Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki
452002 The Twilight Samurai Yōji Yamada
462003 Akame 48 Waterfalls Genjiro Arato
472004 Nobody Knows Hirokazu Koreeda
482005 Break Through! Kazuyuki Izutsu
492006 Hula Girls Sang-il Lee
502007 Kisaragi Yūichi Satō
512008 Climber's High Masato Harada
522009 Mt. Tsurugidake Daisaku Kimura
532010 Confessions Tetsuya Nakashima
542011 Cold Fish Sion Sono
552012 Our Homeland Yang Yong-hi
562013 A Story of Yonosuke Shūichi Okita
572014 Samurai Hustle Katsuhide Motoki
582015 The Emperor in August Masato Harada
592016 Shin Godzilla Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
602017 Wilderness Yoshiyuki Kishi
612018 One Cut of the Dead Shinichiro Ueda
622019 Fly Me to the Saitama Hideki Takeuchi
632020 Fukushima 50 Setsurō Wakamatsu
642021 Last of the Wolves Kazuya Shiraishi
652022 A Man Kei Ishikawa
662023 Godzilla Minus One Takashi Yamazaki

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References

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