The Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.
Award winners Year Film Actor 1947 A Ball at the Anjo House Masayuki Mori 1948 Children Hand in Hand Chishū Ryū 1949 The Quiet DuelStray Dog Takashi Shimura 1950 KikyōShikkō Yūyo Shin Saburi 1951 Inochi UruwashiUmi no Hanabi Chishū Ryū 1952 The Flavor of Green Tea over RiceDōkokuNami Shin Saburi 1953 TsumaFūfu Ken Uehara 1954 The Sound of the MountainKuroi Shio So Yamamura 1955 Meoto zenzaiKeisatsu NikkiWatari Dori Itsu KaeruJinsei Tonbo Gaeri Hisaya Morishige 1956 Anata KaimasuTaifū Sōdōki Keiji Sada 1957 Throne of BloodThe Lower DepthsShitamachi Toshiro Mifune 1958 Hadaka no Taishō Keiju Kobayashi 1959 Fires on the Plain Eiji Funakoshi 1960 Kuroi Gashū Keiju Kobayashi 1961 Immortal LoveThe Human Condition Tatsuya Nakadai 1962 Ningen Taiji Tonoyama 1963 Shiro to KuroEburi Manshi no Yūgana Seikatsu Keiju Kobayashi 1964 Unholy Desire Kō Nishimura 1965 A Fugitive from the PastNippon Dorobō Monogatari Rentarō Mikuni 1966 The Pornographers Shoichi Ozawa 1967 Wakamono Tachi Kunie Tanaka 1968 The Human Bullet Minori Terada 1969 It's Tough Being a ManTora-san's Cherished MotherKigeki Onna wa Dokyō Kiyoshi Atsumi 1970 Where Spring Comes Late Hisashi Igawa 1971 KaoyakuInochi Bōni FurouKitsune no Kureta AkanbōZatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman Shintaro Katsu 1972 Kaigun Tokubetsu NenshōheiDobugawa Gakkyū Takeo Chii 1973 Ningen Kakumei Tetsurō Tamba 1974 Ranru no Hata Rentarō Mikuni 1975 Kaseki Shin Saburi 1976 Yakuza Graveyard Tetsuya Watari 1977 The Yellow Handkerchief Ken Takakura 1978 The Demon Ken Ogata 1979 Shōdō Satsujin Musukoyo Tomisaburo Wakayama 1980 Kagemusha Tatsuya Nakadai 1981 Muddy River Takahiro Tamura 1982 Matagi Kō Nishimura 1983 The CatchYōkirōThe Ballad of Narayama Ken Ogata 1984 The FuneralSaraba Hakobune Tsutomu Yamazaki 1985 Fire FestivalHaru no Kane Kin'ya Kitaōji 1986 The Sea and Poison Eiji Okuda 1987 Wakarenu RiyūA Taxing Woman Masahiko Tsugawa 1988 Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You Hajime Hana 1989 Tsuribaka Nisshi 2Rikyu Rentarō Mikuni 1990 Uchū no hōsokuPachinko Monogatari Masato Furuoya 1991 My SonsMo no shigotoAsian Beat: I Love Nippon Masatoshi Nagase 1992 The Games Teachers PlayHikinige Family Kyōzō Nagatsuka 1993 All Under the Moon Gorō Kishitani 1994 Gokudō Kisha 2Like a Rolling Stone Eiji Okuda 1995 Kamikaze Taxi Kōji Yakusho 1996 Shall We Dance?Nemuru OtokoShabu Gokudō Kōji Yakusho 1997 Onibi Yoshio Harada 1998 The Bird People in China Masahiro Motoki 1999 Ano Natsunohi: Tondero Jīchan Keiju Kobayashi 2000 GohattoGojoeJirai o Fundara Sayōnara Tadanobu Asano 2001 Wasurerarenu Hitobito Tatsuya Mihashi 2002 The Twilight SamuraiVengeance for Sale Hiroyuki Sanada 2003 Tsuribaka Nisshi 14Get Up! Toshiyuki Nishida 2004 Blood and Bones Takeshi Kitano 2005 Rampo NoirTaga Tameni Tadanobu Asano 2006 What the Snow Brings Kōichi Satō 2007 Talk Talk Talk Taichi Kokubun 2008 Aoi ToriStill Walking Hiroshi Abe 2009 Ultra Miracle Love Story Kenichi Matsuyama 2010 The Lone Scalpel Shinichi Tsutsumi 2011 Moteki Mirai Moriyama 2012 Land of Hope Isao Natsuyagi 2013 The Great Passage Ryuhei Matsuda 2014 The Light Shines Only There Gō Ayano 2015 Fires on the Plain Shinya Tsukamoto 2016 The Long Excuse Masahiro Motoki 2017 Wilderness Masaki Suda 2018 And Your Bird Can Sing Tasuku Emoto 2019 Talking the Pictures Ryo Narita 2020 Underdog Mirai Moriyama 2021 In the Wake Takeru Satoh 2022 The Zen Diary Kenji Sawada 2023 Egoist Ryohei Suzuki
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