Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year

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 in 1927, but regarded the 1926 season (since then, every award has been given for movies released in the previous year). Here is a list of the award winners.

Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year
Awarded for	Best Feature Film of the Year
Country	Japan
Presented by	Kinema Junpo
First awarded	1927
Website	Kinema Junpo Awards

Winners

Year	Film (s)	Japanese title	Director
1927	Ashi ni sawatta onna	足にさはった女	Yutaka Abe
1928	A Diary of Chuji's Travels	忠次旅日記	Daisuke Itō
1929	Jobless Samurai	旋風児	Masahiro Makino
1930	Beheading Place	明烏夢泡雪	Masahiro Makino
1931	What Made Her Do It?	何が彼女をそうさせたか	Shigeyoshi Suzuki
1932	The Neighbor's Wife and Mine	マダムと女房	Heinosuke Gosho
1933	I Was Born, But...	大人の見る絵本　生れてはみたけれど	Yasujirō Ozu
1934	Passing Fancy	出来ごころ	Yasujirō Ozu
1935	A Story of Floating Weeds	浮草物語	Yasujirō Ozu
1936	Wife! Be Like a Rose!	妻よ薔薇のやうに	Mikio Naruse
1937	Sisters of the Gion	祇園の姉妹	Kenji Mizoguchi
1938	Limitless Advance	限りなき前進	Tomu Uchida
1939	Five Scouts	五人の斥候兵	Tomotaka Tasaka
1940	Tsuchi	土	Tomu Uchida
1941	Kojima no haru	小島の春	Shirō Toyoda
1942	The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family	戸田家の兄妹	Yasujirō Ozu
1943	The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay	ハワイ・マレー沖海戦	Kajirō Yamamoto
1947	Morning for the Osone Family	大曾根家の朝	Keisuke Kinoshita
1948	A Ball at the Anjo House	安城家の舞踏会	Kōzaburō Yoshimura
1949	Drunken Angel	酔いどれ天使	Akira Kurosawa
1950	Late Spring	晩春	Yasujirō Ozu
1951	Until We Meet Again	また逢う日まで	Tadashi Imai
1952	Early Summer	麦秋	Yasujirō Ozu
1953	Ikiru	生きる	Akira Kurosawa
1954	An Inlet of Muddy Water	にごりえ	Tadashi Imai
1955	Twenty-Four Eyes	二十四の瞳	Keisuke Kinoshita
1956	Floating Clouds	浮雲	Mikio Naruse
1957	Darkness at Noon	真昼の暗黒	Tadashi Imai
1958	The Rice People	米	Tadashi Imai
1959	The Ballad of Narayama	楢山節考	Keisuke Kinoshita
1960	Kiku to Isamu	キクとイサム	Tadashi Imai
1961	Her Brother	おとうと	Kon Ichikawa
1962	Bad Boys	不良少年	Susumu Hani
1963	Being Two Isn't Easy	私は二歳	Kon Ichikawa
1964	The Insect Woman	にっぽん昆虫記	Shohei Imamura
1965	The Woman in the Dunes	砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara
1966	Red Beard	赤ひげ	Akira Kurosawa
1967	The Great White Tower	白い巨塔	Satsuo Yamamoto
1968	Samurai Rebellion	上意討ち 拝領妻始末	Masaki Kobayashi
1969	The Profound Desire of the Gods	神々の深き欲望	Shōhei Imamura
1970	Double Suicide	心中天網島	Masahiro Shinoda
1971	Where Spring Comes Late	家族	Yoji Yamada
1972	The Ceremony	儀式	Nagisa Oshima
1973	The Long Darkness	忍ぶ川	Kei Kumai
1974	Tsugaru Folk Song	津軽じょんがら節	Kōichi Saitō
1975	Sandakan No. 8	サンダカン八番娼館 望郷	Kei Kumai
1976	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
1977	The Youth Killer	青春の殺人者	Kazuhiko Hasegawa
1978	The Yellow Handkerchief	幸福の黄色いハンカチ	Yoji Yamada
1979	Third Base	サード	Yōichi Higashi
1980	Vengeance Is Mine	復讐するは我にあり	Shōhei Imamura
1981	Zigeunerweisen	ツィゴイネルワイゼン	Seijun Suzuki
1982	Muddy River	泥の河	Kōhei Oguri
1983	Fall Guy	蒲田行進曲	Kinji Fukasaku
1984	The Family Game	家族ゲーム	Yoshimitsu Morita
1985	The Funeral	お葬式	Juzo Itami
1986	And Then	それから	Yoshimitsu Morita
1987	The Sea and Poison	海と毒薬	Kei Kumai
1988	A Taxing Woman	マルサの女	Juzo Itami
1989	My Neighbor Totoro	となりのトトロ	Hayao Miyazaki
1990	Black Rain	黒い雨	Shohei Imamura
1991	The Cherry Orchard	櫻の園	Shun Nakahara
1992	My Sons	息子	Yōji Yamada
1993	Sumo Do, Sumo Don't	シコふんじゃった。	Masayuki Suo
1994	All Under the Moon	月はどっちに出ている	Yōichi Sai
1995	A Dedicated Life	全身小説家	Kazuo Hara
1996	A Last Note	午後の遺言状	Kaneto Shindo
1997	Shall We Dance?	Shall we ダンス?	Masayuki Suo
1998	The Eel	うなぎ	Shohei Imamura
1999	Fireworks	はなび	Takeshi Kitano
2000	Wait and See	あ、春	Shinji Sōmai
2001	Face	顔	Junji Sakamoto
2002	Go	ゴー	Isao Yukisada
2003	The Twilight Samurai	たそがれ清兵衛	Yōji Yamada
2004	A Boy's Summer in 1945	美しい夏キリシマ	Kazuo Kuroki
2005	Nobody Knows	誰も知らない	Hirokazu Kore-eda
2006	Break Through!	박치기,パッチギ!	Kazuyuki Izutsu
2007	Hula Girls	フラガール	Lee Sang-il
2008	I Just Didn't Do It	それでもボクはやってない	Masayuki Suo
2009	Departures	おくりびと	Yōjirō Takita
2010	Dear Doctor	ディア・ドクター	Miwa Nishikawa
2011	Villain	悪人	Lee Sang-il
2012	Postcard	一枚のハガキ	Kaneto Shindo
2013	Our Homeland	かぞくのくに	Yang Yong-hi
2014	Pecoross' Mother and Her Days	ペコロスの母に会いに行く	Azuma Morisaki
2015	The Light Shines Only There	そこのみにて光輝く	Mipo O
2016	Three Stories of Love	恋人たち	Ryōsuke Hashiguchi
2017	In This Corner of the World	この世界の片隅に	Sunao Katabuchi
2018	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
2019	Shoplifters	万引き家族	Hirokazu Kore-eda
2020	It Feels So Good	火口のふたり	Haruhiko Arai
2021	Wife of a Spy	スパイの妻	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2022	Drive My Car	ドライブ・マイ・カー	Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2023	Small, Slow But Steady	ケイコ 目を澄ませて	Shō Miyake
2024	Okiku and the World	せかいのおきく	Junji Sakamoto

External links

• Kinema Junpo on IMDb