Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor is as part of its annual Blue Ribbon Awards for Japanese film, to recognize a male supporting actor who has delivered an outstanding performance.

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor
Awarded for	Best Performance by a Supporting Actor
Country	Japan
Presented by	The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists
First awarded	1951

List of winners

No.	Year	Recipient	Film(s)
1	1950	N/A	N/A
2	1951	Chishū Ryū	Wagaya wa Tanoshi Inochi Utsukushiwashi
3	1952	Daisuke Katō	Vendetta for a Samurai Mother
4	1953	Eitarō Shindō	Life of a Woman A Geisha
5	1954	Eijirō Tōno	Kuroi Shio Kunshō
6	1955	Daisuke Katō	Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji Koko ni Izumi Ari
7	1956	Jun Tatara	Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro Anata Kaimasu Taifū Sōdōki
8	1957	Kōji Mitsui	Kichigai Buraku The Lower Depths
9	1958	Nakamura Ganjirō II	Enjō Iwashigumo
10	1959	Shoichi Ozawa	My Second Brother
11	1960	Masao Oda	The River Fuefuki Bokutō Kigan
12	1961	So Yamamura	Are ga Minato no Hi da Kakō
13	1962	Yūnosuke Itō	Shinobi no Mono
14	1963	Chōichirō Kawarasaki	Gobanchō Yūgirirō
15	1964	Kō Nishimura	Unholy Desire
16	1965	Takahiro Tamura	The Hoodlum Soldier
17	1966	Katsuo Nakamura	Lake of Tears
18	1975	Yoshio Harada	Matsuri no Junbi Pastoral: To Die in the Country
19	1976	Hideji Ōtaki	Fumō Chitai Brother and Sister
20	1977	Tomisaburo Wakayama	Sugata Sanshirō Akuma no Temariuta
21	1978	Tsunehiko Watase	The Incident
22	1979	Rentarō Mikuni	Vengeance Is Mine
23	1980	Tetsurō Tamba	The Battle of Port Arthur
24	1981	Masahiko Tsugawa	Manon
25	1982	Akira Emoto	Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san Dotonbori River
26	1983	Kunie Tanaka	Nogare no Machi Izakaya Chōji
27	1984	Kaku Takashina	Mahjong hōrōki
28	1985	Takeshi Kitano	Yasha
29	1986	Kei Suma	Final Take
30	1987	Toshiro Mifune	Tora-san Goes North
31	1988	Tsurutaro Kataoka	The Discarnates
32	1989	Eiji Bandō	A Un
33	1990	Toshirō Yanagiba	Saraba Itoshi no Yakuza
34	1991	Masatoshi Nagase	My Sons
35	1992	Hideo Murota	Shura no Densetsu Original Sin
36	1993	George Tokoro	Madadayo
37	1994	Atsuo Nakamura	Shūdan Sasen
38	1995	Masato Hagiwara	Marks no Yama
39	1996	Tetsuya Watari	Waga Kokoro no Ginga Tetsudō Miyazawa kenji Monogatari
40	1997	Masahiko Nishimura	Marutai no Onna Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
41	1998	Ren Osugi	Hana-bi
42	1999	Shinji Takeda	Gohatto
43	2000	Teruyuki Kagawa	Suri Dokuritsu Shōnen Gasshōdan
44	2001	Tsutomu Yamazaki	Go
45	2002	Kanji Tsuda	Mohōhan
46	2003	Tarō Yamamoto	Moon Child Get Up! The Boat to Heaven
47	2004	Joe Odagiri	Blood and Bones Kono Yo no Soto e Club Shinchūgun
48	2005	Shinichi Tsutsumi	Always Sanchōme no Yūhi Fly, Daddy, Fly
49	2006	Teruyuki Kagawa	Sway Deguchi no Nai Umi Memories of Tomorrow
50	2007	Tomokazu Miura	The Matsugane Potshot Affair Adrift in Tokyo
51	2008	Masato Sakai	After School Climber's High
52	2009	Eita	Dear Doctor Gama no Abura Nakumonka Nodame Cantabile Saishū Gakushō
53	2010	Renji Ishibashi	Outrage Kondo wa Aisaika
54	2011	Yūsuke Iseya	Ashita no Joe Kaiji
55	2012	Arata Iura	Our Homeland
56	2013	Pierre Taki	The Devil's Path Kujikenaide Like Father, Like Son
57	2014	Sosuke Ikematsu	Pale Moon Umi o Kanjiru Toki Bokutachi no Kazoku
58	2015	Masahiro Motoki	The Emperor in August The Big Bee
59	2016	Lily Franky	Scoop! Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow
60	2017	Yūsuke Santamaria	Wilderness
61	2018	Tori Matsuzaka	The Blood of Wolves
62	2019	Ryo Yoshizawa	Kingdom
63	2020	Ryo Narita	The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese Threads: Our Tapestry of Love
64	2021	Taiga Nakano	Under the Open Sky Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle In Those Days
65	2022	Kazuki Iio	Silent Parade
66	2023	Kōichi Satō	One Last Bloom and others

External links

• Blue Ribbon Awards on IMDb