# Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film is a prize recognizing excellence in Japanese film. It is awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards. Filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Tadashi Imai and Mikio Naruse are among those who have received the award. Best Film winners Kagemusha (1980) and The Twilight Samurai (2002) also received an Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.

## List of winners

| No. | Year | Film | Director |
| 1 | 1950 | Until We Meet Again | Tadashi Imai |
| 2 | 1951 | Repast | Mikio Naruse |
| 3 | 1952 | Lightning | Mikio Naruse |
| 4 | 1953 | An Inlet of Muddy Water | Tadashi Imai |
| 5 | 1954 | Twenty-Four Eyes | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 6 | 1955 | Floating Clouds | Mikio Naruse |
| 7 | 1956 | Mahiru no ankoku | Tadashi Imai |
| 8 | 1957 | The Rice People | Tadashi Imai |
| 9 | 1958 | The Hidden Fortress | Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 | 1959 | Kiku to Isamu | Tadashi Imai |
| 11 | 1960 | Her Brother | Kon Ichikawa |
| 12 | 1961 | Pigs and Battleships | Shohei Imamura |
| 13 | 1962 | Foundry Town | Kirio Urayama |
| 14 | 1963 | The Insect Woman | Shohei Imamura |
| 15 | 1964 | The Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 16 | 1965 | Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa |
| 17 | 1966 | Shiroi Kyotō | Satsuo Yamamoto |
| 18 | 1975 | The Fossil | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 19 | 1976 | Lullaby of the Earth | Yasuzo Masumura |
| 20 | 1977 | The Yellow Handkerchief | Yoji Yamada |
| 21 | 1978 | Third Base | Yōichi Higashi |
| 22 | 1979 | Vengeance Is Mine | Shōhei Imamura |
| 23 | 1980 | Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa |
| 24 | 1981 | Muddy River | Kōhei Oguri |
| 25 | 1982 | Fall Guy | Kinji Fukasaku |
| 26 | 1983 | Tokyo Trial | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 27 | 1984 | MacArthur's Children | Masahiro Shinoda |
| 28 | 1985 | Ran | Akira Kurosawa |
| 29 | 1986 | House of Wedlock | Kichitaro Negishi |
| 30 | 1987 | A Taxing Woman | Juzo Itami |
| 31 | 1988 | The Silk Road | Junya Satō |
| 32 | 1989 | Dotsuitarunen | Junji Sakamoto |
| 33 | 1990 | Childhood Days | Masahiro Shinoda |
| 34 | 1991 | A Scene at the Sea | Takeshi Kitano |
| 35 | 1992 | Sumo Do, Sumo Don't | Masayuki Suo |
| 36 | 1993 | All Under the Moon | Yōichi Sai |
| 37 | 1994 | Like a Rolling Stone | Tatsumi Kumashiro |
| 38 | 1995 | A Last Note | Kaneto Shindo |
| 39 | 1996 | Boys Be Ambitious | Kazuyuki Izutsu |
| 40 | 1997 | Bounce Ko Gals | Masato Harada |
| 41 | 1998 | Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano |
| 42 | 1999 | Gohatto | Nagisa Oshima |
| 43 | 2000 | Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku |
| 44 | 2001 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 45 | 2002 | The Twilight Samurai | Yōji Yamada |
| 46 | 2003 | Akame 48 Waterfalls | Genjiro Arato |
| 47 | 2004 | Nobody Knows | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| 48 | 2005 | Break Through! | Kazuyuki Izutsu |
| 49 | 2006 | Hula Girls | Sang-il Lee |
| 50 | 2007 | Kisaragi | Yūichi Satō |
| 51 | 2008 | Climber's High | Masato Harada |
| 52 | 2009 | Mt. Tsurugidake | Daisaku Kimura |
| 53 | 2010 | Confessions | Tetsuya Nakashima |
| 54 | 2011 | Cold Fish | Sion Sono |
| 55 | 2012 | Our Homeland | Yang Yong-hi |
| 56 | 2013 | A Story of Yonosuke | Shūichi Okita |
| 57 | 2014 | Samurai Hustle | Katsuhide Motoki |
| 58 | 2015 | The Emperor in August | Masato Harada |
| 59 | 2016 | Shin Godzilla | Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi |
| 60 | 2017 | Wilderness | Yoshiyuki Kishi |
| 61 | 2018 | One Cut of the Dead | Shinichiro Ueda |
| 62 | 2019 | Fly Me to the Saitama | Hideki Takeuchi |
| 63 | 2020 | Fukushima 50 | Setsurō Wakamatsu |
| 64 | 2021 | Last of the Wolves | Kazuya Shiraishi |
| 65 | 2022 | A Man | Kei Ishikawa |
| 66 | 2023 | Godzilla Minus One | Takashi Yamazaki |
| 67 | 2024 | A Samurai in Time | Jun'ichi Yasuda |