Mainichi Film Award for Best Lead Performance

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Mainichi Film Award for Best Lead Performance
Awarded forBest Lead Performance of the year
Country Japan
First awarded2024

The Mainichi Film Award for Best Lead Performance is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards. [1] In 2024, the Mainichi Film Awards announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories, with both Best Male Lead and Best Female Lead merging into the Best Lead Performance category.

Award Winners

YearActorFilm
2024 Yuumi Kawai A Girl Named Ann
Desert of Namibia
Ryusei Yokohama Faceless

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References

  1. "コンクールの歴史" [History of Mainichi Film Award] (in Japanese). The Mainichi Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-04-19.