Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year

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Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year
Awarded forBest Feature Film of the Year
CountryJapan
Presented by Kinema Junpo
First award1926
Most recent winnerAll the Long Nights (2024)
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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 for 1926. Here is a list of the award winners.[ citation needed ]

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Winners

YearFilm (s)Japanese titleDirector
1926 [1] The Woman Who Touched the Legs  [ ja ]足にさはった女 Yutaka Abe
1927 [1] A Diary of Chuji's Travels (Parts I-II)忠次旅日記 Daisuke Itō
1928 [1] The Street of Masterless Samurai/Beautiful Conquest旋風児 Masahiro Makino
1929 [1] Beheading Place明烏夢泡雪 Masahiro Makino
1930 [1] [Note 1] What Made Her Do It? (modern film) & Ooka's Trial  [ ja ] (historical film)何が彼女をそうさせたか & 新版大岡政談 Shigeyoshi Suzuki & Daisuke Itō
1931 [1] The Neighbor's Wife and Mine マダムと女房 Heinosuke Gosho
1932 [2] I Was Born, But... 大人の見る絵本　生れてはみたけれど Yasujirō Ozu
1933 [3] Passing Fancy 出来ごころ Yasujirō Ozu
1934 [4] A Story of Floating Weeds 浮草物語 Yasujirō Ozu
1935 [1] Wife! Be Like a Rose! 妻よ薔薇のやうに Mikio Naruse
1936 [1] Sisters of the Gion 祇園の姉妹 Kenji Mizoguchi
1937 [1] Limitless Advance 限りなき前進 Tomu Uchida
1938 [1] Five Scouts 五人の斥候兵 Tomotaka Tasaka
1939 [1] Tsuchi 土 Tomu Uchida
1940 [1] Spring on Leper's Island 小島の春 Shirō Toyoda
1941 [5] The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family 戸田家の兄妹 Yasujirō Ozu
1942 [1] The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay ハワイ・マレー沖海戦 Kajirō Yamamoto
1946 [1] Morning for the Osone Family  [ ja ]大曾根家の朝 Keisuke Kinoshita
1947 [1] A Ball at the Anjo House 安城家の舞踏会 Kōzaburō Yoshimura
1948 [1] Drunken Angel 酔いどれ天使 Akira Kurosawa
1949 [6] Late Spring 晩春 Yasujirō Ozu
1950 [1] Until We Meet Again また逢う日まで Tadashi Imai
1951 [7] Early Summer 麦秋 Yasujirō Ozu
1952 [1] Ikiru 生きる Akira Kurosawa
1953 [1] An Inlet of Muddy Water にごりえ Tadashi Imai
1954 [1] Twenty-Four Eyes 二十四の瞳 Keisuke Kinoshita
1955 [1] Floating Clouds 浮雲 Mikio Naruse
1956 [1] Darkness at Noon 真昼の暗黒 Tadashi Imai
1957 [1] The Rice People 米 Tadashi Imai
1958 [1] The Ballad of Narayama 楢山節考 Keisuke Kinoshita
1959 [1] Kiku to Isamu キクとイサム Tadashi Imai
1960 [1] Her Brother おとうと Kon Ichikawa
1961 [1] Bad Boys 不良少年 Susumu Hani
1962 [1] Being Two Isn't Easy 私は二歳 Kon Ichikawa
1963 [1] The Insect Woman にっぽん昆虫記 Shohei Imamura
1964 [1] The Woman in the Dunes 砂の女 Hiroshi Teshigahara
1965 [1] Red Beard 赤ひげ Akira Kurosawa
1966 [1] The Great White Tower 白い巨塔 Satsuo Yamamoto
1967 [1] Samurai Rebellion 上意討ち 拝領妻始末 Masaki Kobayashi
1968 [1] The Profound Desire of the Gods 神々の深き欲望 Shōhei Imamura
1969 [1] Double Suicide 心中天網島 Masahiro Shinoda
1970 [1] Where Spring Comes Late 家族 Yoji Yamada
1971 [1] The Ceremony 儀式 Nagisa Oshima
1972 [1] The Long Darkness 忍ぶ川 Kei Kumai
1973 [1] Tsugaru Folk Song 津軽じょんがら節 Kōichi Saitō
1974 [1] Sandakan No. 8 サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 Kei Kumai
1975 [1] 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
1976 [1] The Youth Killer 青春の殺人者 Kazuhiko Hasegawa
1977 [1] The Yellow Handkerchief 幸福の黄色いハンカチ Yoji Yamada
1978 [1] Third Base サード Yōichi Higashi
1979 [1] Vengeance Is Mine 復讐するは我にあり Shōhei Imamura
1980 [1] Zigeunerweisen ツィゴイネルワイゼン Seijun Suzuki
1981 [1] Muddy River 泥の河 Kōhei Oguri
1982 [1] Fall Guy 蒲田行進曲 Kinji Fukasaku
1983 [1] The Family Game 家族ゲーム Yoshimitsu Morita
1984 [1] The Funeral お葬式 Juzo Itami
1985 [1] And Then それから Yoshimitsu Morita
1986 [1] The Sea and Poison 海と毒薬 Kei Kumai
1987 [1] A Taxing Woman マルサの女 Juzo Itami
1988 [1] My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ Hayao Miyazaki
1989 [1] Black Rain 黒い雨 Shohei Imamura
1990 [1] The Cherry Orchard 櫻の園 Shun Nakahara
1991 [1] My Sons 息子 Yōji Yamada
1992 [1] Sumo Do, Sumo Don't シコふんじゃった。 Masayuki Suo
1993 [1] All Under the Moon 月はどっちに出ている Yōichi Sai
1994 [1] A Dedicated Life 全身小説家 Kazuo Hara
1995 A Last Note 午後の遺言状 Kaneto Shindo
1996 Shall We Dance? Shall we ダンス? Masayuki Suo
1997 The Eel うなぎ Shohei Imamura
1998 Fireworks はなび Takeshi Kitano
1999 Wait and See あ、春 Shinji Sōmai
2000 Face 顔 Junji Sakamoto
2001 Go ゴー Isao Yukisada
2002 The Twilight Samurai たそがれ清兵衛 Yōji Yamada
2003 A Boy's Summer in 1945 美しい夏キリシマ Kazuo Kuroki
2004 Nobody Knows 誰も知らない Hirokazu Kore-eda
2005 Break Through! 박치기,パッチギ! Kazuyuki Izutsu
2006 Hula Girls フラガール Lee Sang-il
2007 I Just Didn't Do It それでもボクはやってない Masayuki Suo
2008 Departures おくりびと Yōjirō Takita
2009 Dear Doctor ディア・ドクター Miwa Nishikawa
2010 Villain 悪人 Lee Sang-il
2011 Postcard 一枚のハガキ Kaneto Shindo
2012 Our Homeland かぞくのくに Yang Yong-hi
2013 Pecoross' Mother and Her Days ペコロスの母に会いに行く Azuma Morisaki
2014 The Light Shines Only There そこのみにて光輝く Mipo O
2015 Three Stories of Love 恋人たち Ryōsuke Hashiguchi
2016 In This Corner of the World この世界の片隅に Sunao Katabuchi
2017 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
2018 Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda
2019 It Feels So Good 火口のふたり Haruhiko Arai
2020 Wife of a Spy スパイの妻 Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2021 Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2022 Small, Slow But Steady  [ ja ]ケイコ 目を澄ませて Shō Miyake  [ ja ]
2023 Okiku and the World せかいのおきく Junji Sakamoto
2024 All the Long Nights  [ ja ]夜明けのすべて Shō Miyake  [ ja ]

Notes

  1. ↑ For 1930, separate lists were made for "modern films" and "historical films".

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 through 1994. Jerrerson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 479–486. ISBN   0-7864-0032-3.
  2. ↑ キネマ旬報 ベスト・テン 1932年・第9回 [9th Kinema Junpo Best Ten (1932)]. KINENOTE (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  3. ↑ キネマ旬報 ベスト・テン 1933年・第10回 [10th Kinema Junpo Best Ten (1933)]. KINENOTE (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on January 25, 2025. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  4. ↑ キネマ旬報 ベスト・テン 1934年・第11回 [11th Kinema Junpo Best Ten (1934)]. KINENOTE (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on January 24, 2025. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  5. ↑ キネマ旬報 ベスト・テン 1941年・第18回 [18th Kinema Junpo Best Ten (1941)]. KINENOTE (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  6. ↑ キネマ旬報 ベスト・テン 1949年・第23回 [23rd Kinema Junpo Best Ten (1949)]. KINENOTE (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on April 24, 2024. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  7. ↑ キネマ旬報 ベスト・テン 1951年・第25回 [25th Kinema Junpo Best Ten (1951)]. KINENOTE (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on January 25, 2025. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
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