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.
Winners YearFilm (s)Japanese titleDirector1926 足にさはった女 Yutaka Abe1927 A Diary of Chuji's Travels (Parts I-II) 忠次旅日記 Daisuke Itō1928 The Street of Masterless Samurai/Beautiful Conquest 旋風児 Masahiro Makino1929 Beheading Place 明烏夢泡雪 Masahiro Makino1930 What Made Her Do It? (modern film) & (historical film) 何が彼女をそうさせたか & 新版大岡政談 Shigeyoshi Suzuki & Daisuke Itō1931 The Neighbor's Wife and Mine マダムと女房 Heinosuke Gosho1932 I Was Born, But... 大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど Yasujirō Ozu1933 Passing Fancy 出来ごころ Yasujirō Ozu1934 A Story of Floating Weeds 浮草物語 Yasujirō Ozu1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose! 妻よ薔薇のやうに Mikio Naruse1936 Sisters of the Gion 祇園の姉妹 Kenji Mizoguchi1937 Limitless Advance 限りなき前進 Tomu Uchida1938 Five Scouts 五人の斥候兵 Tomotaka Tasaka1939 Tsuchi 土 Tomu Uchida1940 Spring on Leper's Island 小島の春 Shirō Toyoda1941 The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family 戸田家の兄妹 Yasujirō Ozu1942 The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya ハワイ・マレー沖海戦 Kajirō Yamamoto1946 大曾根家の朝 Keisuke Kinoshita1947 The Ball at the Anjo House 安城家の舞踏会 Kōzaburō Yoshimura1948 Drunken Angel 酔いどれ天使 Akira Kurosawa1949 Late Spring 晩春 Yasujirō Ozu1950 Until We Meet Again また逢う日まで Tadashi Imai1951 Early Summer 麦秋 Yasujirō Ozu1952 Ikiru 生きる Akira Kurosawa1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water にごりえ Tadashi Imai1954 Twenty-Four Eyes 二十四の瞳 Keisuke Kinoshita1955 Floating Clouds 浮雲 Mikio Naruse1956 Darkness at Noon 真昼の暗黒 Tadashi Imai1957 The Rice People 米 Tadashi Imai1958 The Ballad of Narayama 楢山節考 Keisuke Kinoshita1959 Kiku to Isamu キクとイサム Tadashi Imai1960 Her Brother おとうと Kon Ichikawa1961 Bad Boys 不良少年 Susumu Hani1962 Being Two Isn't Easy 私は二歳 Kon Ichikawa1963 The Insect Woman にっぽん昆虫記 Shohei Imamura1964 The Woman in the Dunes 砂の女 Hiroshi Teshigahara1965 Red Beard 赤ひげ Akira Kurosawa1966 The Great White Tower 白い巨塔 Satsuo Yamamoto1967 Samurai Rebellion 上意討ち 拝領妻始末 Masaki Kobayashi1968 The Profound Desire of the Gods 神々の深き欲望 Shōhei Imamura1969 Double Suicide 心中天網島 Masahiro Shinoda1970 Where Spring Comes Late 家族 Yoji Yamada1971 The Ceremony 儀式 Nagisa Oshima1972 The Long Darkness 忍ぶ川 Kei Kumai1973 Tsugaru Folk Song 津軽じょんがら節 Kōichi Saitō1974 Sandakan No. 8 サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 Kei Kumai1975 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 Shindo1976 The Youth Killer 青春の殺人者 Kazuhiko Hasegawa1977 The Yellow Handkerchief 幸福の黄色いハンカチ Yoji Yamada1978 Third Base サード Yōichi Higashi1979 Vengeance Is Mine 復讐するは我にあり Shōhei Imamura1980 Zigeunerweisen ツィゴイネルワイゼン Seijun Suzuki1981 Muddy River 泥の河 Kōhei Oguri1982 Fall Guy 蒲田行進曲 Kinji Fukasaku1983 The Family Game 家族ゲーム Yoshimitsu Morita1984 The Funeral お葬式 Juzo Itami1985 And Then それから Yoshimitsu Morita1986 The Sea and Poison 海と毒薬 Kei Kumai1987 A Taxing Woman マルサの女 Juzo Itami1988 My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ Hayao Miyazaki1989 Black Rain 黒い雨 Shohei Imamura1990 The Cherry Orchard 櫻の園 Shun Nakahara1991 My Sons 息子 Yōji Yamada1992 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't シコふんじゃった。 Masayuki Suo1993 All Under the Moon 月はどっちに出ている Yōichi Sai1994 A Dedicated Life 全身小説家 Kazuo Hara1995 A Last Note 午後の遺言状 Kaneto Shindo1996 Shall We Dance? Shall we ダンス? Masayuki Suo1997 The Eel うなぎ Shohei Imamura1998 Fireworks はなび Takeshi Kitano1999 Wait and See あ、春 Shinji Sōmai2000 Face 顔 Junji Sakamoto2001 Go ゴー Isao Yukisada2002 The Twilight Samurai たそがれ清兵衛 Yōji Yamada2003 A Boy's Summer in 1945 美しい夏キリシマ Kazuo Kuroki2004 Nobody Knows 誰も知らない Hirokazu Kore-eda2005 Break Through! 박치기,パッチギ! Kazuyuki Izutsu2006 Hula Girls フラガール Lee Sang-il2007 I Just Didn't Do It それでもボクはやってない Masayuki Suo2008 Departures おくりびと Yōjirō Takita2009 Dear Doctor ディア・ドクター Miwa Nishikawa2010 Villain 悪人 Lee Sang-il2011 Postcard 一枚のハガキ Kaneto Shindo2012 Our Homeland かぞくのくに Yang Yong-hi2013 Pecoross' Mother and Her Days ペコロスの母に会いに行く Azuma Morisaki2014 The Light Shines Only There そこのみにて光輝く Mipo O2015 Three Stories of Love 恋人たち Ryōsuke Hashiguchi2016 In This Corner of the World この世界の片隅に Sunao Katabuchi2017 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 Ishii2018 Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda2019 It Feels So Good 火口のふたり Haruhiko Arai2020 Wife of a Spy スパイの妻 Kiyoshi Kurosawa2021 Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー Ryusuke Hamaguchi2022 ケイコ 目を澄ませて Shō Miyake2023 Okiku and the World せかいのおきく Junji Sakamoto2024 All the Long Nights 夜明けのすべて Shō Miyake2025 Two Seasons, Two Strangers 旅と日々 Shō Miyake
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External links Kinema Junpo on IMDb