Year | Film | Director |
1946 | Minshū no Teki | Tadashi Imai |
1947 | One Wonderful Sunday | Akira Kurosawa |
1948 | Woman Shōzō Apostasy | Keisuke Kinoshita |
1949 | Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu |
1950 | Itsuwareru Seisō | Kōzaburō Yoshimura |
1951 | Repast | Mikio Naruse |
1952 | Gendai-jin Honjitsu Kyūshin | Minoru Shibuya |
1953 | An Inlet of Muddy Water | Tadashi Imai |
1954 | Twenty-Four Eyes The Garden of Women | Keisuke Kinoshita |
1955 | Floating Clouds | Mikio Naruse |
1956 | Mahiru no ankoku | Tadashi Imai |
1957 | The Rice People Jun'ai Monogatari | Tadashi Imai |
1958 | The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita |
1959 | Niguruma no Uta Ningen no Kabe | Satsuo Yamamoto |
1960 | Her Brother Jokyo | Kon Ichikawa |
1961 | The Human Condition | Masaki Kobayashi |
1962 | Being Two Isn't Easy The Broken Commandment | Kon Ichikawa |
1963 | The Insect Woman | Shohei Imamura |
1964 | The Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
1965 | A Fugitive from the Past | Tomu Uchida |
1966 | Shiroi Kyotō | Satsuo Yamamoto |
1967 | A Man Vanishes | Shohei Imamura |
1968 | The Human Bullet | Kihachi Okamoto |
1969 | Kigeki Ippatsu Daihisshō It's Tough Being a Man Tora-san's Cherished Mother | Yoji Yamada |
1970 | Men and War: Part I | Satsuo Yamamoto |
1971 | Silence Tora-san's Shattered Romance Tora-san, the Good Samaritan Tora-san's Love Call | Masahiro Shinoda
Yoji Yamada |
1972 | The Rendezvous Tabi no Omosa | Kōichi Saitō |
1973 | Tora-san's Dream-Come-True Tora-san's Forget Me Not | Yoji Yamada |
1974 | Castle of Sand | Yoshitarō Nomura |
1975 | Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director | Kaneto Shindo |
1976 | Fumō Chitai | Satsuo Yamamoto |
1977 | The Yellow Handkerchief | Yoji Yamada |
1978 | The Incident The Demon | Yoshitarō Nomura |
1979 | Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko | Kazuhiko Hasegawa |
1980 | Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa |
1981 | Muddy River | Kōhei Oguri |
1982 | Fall Guy Dotonbori River | Kinji Fukasaku |
1983 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima |
1984 | The Funeral | Juzo Itami |
1985 | Ran | Akira Kurosawa |
1986 | The Sea and Poison | Kei Kumai |
1987 | The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On | Kazuo Hara |
1988 | The Discarnates | Nobuhiko Obayashi |
1989 | Shaso | Toshio Masuda |
1990 | Tugumi | Jun Ichikawa |
1991 | My Sons | Yoji Yamada |
1992 | The River with No Bridge | Yōichi Higashi |
1993 | Byōin de Shinu to Iukoto | Jun Ichikawa |
1994 | Like a Rolling Stone | Tatsumi Kumashiro |
1995 | A Last Note | Kaneto Shindo |
1996 | Shall We Dance? | Masayuki Suo |
1997 | The Eel | Shohei Imamura |
1998 | Begging for Love | Hideyuki Hirayama |
1999 | Keiho | Yoshimitsu Morita |
2000 | Face | Junji Sakamoto |
2001 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki |
2002 | Out The Laughing Frog | Hideyuki Hirayama |
2003 | Doing Time | Yoichi Sai |
2004 | Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima The Face of Jizo | Kazuo Kuroki |
2005 | Itsuka dokusho suruhi | Akira Ogata |
2006 | What the Snow Brings | Kichitaro Negishi |
2007 | I Just Didn't Do It | Masayuki Suo |
2008 | United Red Army | Kōji Wakamatsu |
2009 | Love Exposure | Sion Sono |
2010 | 13 Assassins | Takashi Miike |
2011 | Saudade | Katsuya Tomita |
2012 | The Kirishima Thing | Daihachi Yoshida |
2013 | The Great Passage | Yuya Ishii |
2014 | The Light Shines Only There | Mipo O |
2015 | Fires on the Plain | Shinya Tsukamoto |
2016 | The Long Excuse | Miwa Nishikawa |
2017 | Bangkok Nites | Katsuya Tomita |
2018 | One Cut of the Dead | Shinichiro Ueda |
2019 | Listen to the Universe | Kei Ishikawa |
2020 | True Mothers | Naomi Kawase |
2021 | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
2022 | Small, Slow But Steady | Shō Miyake |
2023 | The Moon | Yuya Ishii |