Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film
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
List of winners
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 in the category of Best Foreign Language Film.