| Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by a Screenplay |
| Country |  Japan |
| Presented by | The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists |
| First awarded | 1950 |
| Last awarded | 1966 |
The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Screenplay is a prize recognizing the work of a screenplay of a Japanese film. It was awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards. [1] [2] It was lastly awarded in 1966 at the 17th Blue Ribbon Awards and discontinued.
| No. | Year | Scriptwriter(s) | Film(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto | Rashomon |
| 2 | 1951 | Sumie Tanaka | Home Sweet Home Boyhood Repast |
| 3 | 1952 | Ryōsuke Saitō | Honjitsu kyūshin |
| 4 | 1953 | Keisuke Kinoshita | A Japanese Tragedy Koibumi Magokoro Ai no Sakyū |
| 5 | 1954 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Twenty-Four Eyes The Garden of Women |
| 6 | 1955 | Ryūzō Kikushima | Otoko Arite Rokunin no ansatsusha |
| 7 | 1956 | Shinobu Hashimoto | Mahiru no ankoku |
| 8 | 1957 | Ryūzō Kikushima | Kichigai Buraku |
| 9 | 1958 | Shinobu Hashimoto | Harikomi Iwashigumo |
| 10 | 1959 | Yōko Mizuki | Kiku to Isamu |
| 11 | 1960 | N/A | N/A |
| 12 | 1961 | Zenzo Matsuyama | Na mo Naku Mazushiku Utsukushiku Futari no Musuko |
| 13 | 1962 | Shinobu Hashimoto | Harakiri |
| 14 | 1963 | Shohei Imamura Keiji Hasebe | The Insect Woman |
| 15 | 1964 | Takeo Kunihiro | Bakumatsu Zankoku Monogatari |
| 16 | 1965 | Naoyuki Suzuki | A Fugitive from the Past |
| 17 | 1966 | Shinobu Hashimoto | Shiroi Kyotō |
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