Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography
| Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best cinematography of the year |
| Country | Japan |
| First award | 1946 |
The Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.[1][2]
| Year | Cinematographer | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Mikiya Tachibana | Hinoki Butai |
| 1947 | Mitsuo Miura | Ima Hitotabi no |
| 1948 | Takeo Itō | Drunken Angel |
| 1949 | Asakazu Nakai | Aoi sanmyaku Stray Dog |
| 1950 | Akira Mimura | Escape at Dawn |
| 1951 | Masao Tamai | Repast |
| 1952 | Kazuo Miyagawa | Nishijin no Shimai Thousand Cranes |
| 1953 | Yoshio Miyajima | Before the Dawn Kanikōsen |
| 1954 | Jōji Obara | Ai to Shi no Tanima Niwatori wa Futatabi Naku |
| 1955 | Hiroshi Kusuda | She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum Tōi Kumo |
| 1956 | Mitsuo Miura | The Legend of the White Serpent Neko to Shōzō to Futari no Onna |
| 1957 | Hiroyuki Nagaoka | Kichigai Buraku Seigiha |
| 1958 | Saburō Isayama | Hi no Ataru Sakamichi |
| 1959 | Yoshio Miyajima | The Human Condition |
| 1960 | Kazuo Miyagawa | Her Brother |
| 1961 | Yoshio Miyajima | A Soldier's Prayer |
| 1962 | Yūharu Atsuta | An Autumn Afternoon |
| 1963 | Tōichirō Narushima | Twin Sisters of Kyoto |
| 1964 | Shinsaku Himeda | Unholy Desire |
| 1965 | Yoshio Miyajima | Kwaidan |
| 1966 | Masahiko Iimura | Umi no Koto Ichiman Sanzen-nin no Yōgisha |
| 1967 | Hiroshi Takemura | Sekishun Portrait of Chieko |
| 1968 | Kiyomi Kuroda | Kuroneko Tsuyomushi Onna to Yowamushi Otoko |
| 1969 | Kōzō Okazaki | Goyokin |
| 1970 | Asakazu Nakai | Akazukin Chan Ki o Tsukete |
| 1971 | Kōzō Okazaki | Inochi Bō ni Furou |
| 1972 | Noritaka Sakamoto | The Rendezvous Tabi no Omosa |
| 1973 | Noritaka Sakamoto | Tsugaru Jongara Bushi |
| 1974 | Kōzō Okazaki | Karei Naru Ichizoku Nemu no Ki no Uta |
| 1975 | Kōzō Okazaki | Kaseki I Am a Cat |
| 1976 | Kiyoshi Hasegawa | The Inugamis |
| 1977 | Kazuo Miyagawa | Ballad of Orin |
| 1978 | Takashi Kawamata | The Incident The Demon |
| 1979 | Setsuo Kobayashi | Ah! Nomugi Toge |
| 1980 | Kazue Nagatsuka | Zigeunerweisen |
| 1981 | Daisaku Kimura | Station |
| 1982 | Masaki Tamura | Farewell to the Land |
| 1983 | Akira Shiizuka | Antarctica |
| 1984 | Kazuo Miyagawa | MacArthur's Children |
| 1985 | Yonezō Maeda | Sorekara Checkers in Tan Tan Tanuki Yabanjin no Yō ni |
| 1986 | Yoshihiro Yamazaki | A Promise Rikon Shinai Onna |
| 1987 | Yukio Isohata | Eiga Joyū |
| 1988 | Junichirō Hayashi | Wuthering Heights Kyōshū |
| 1989 | Fujio Morita | Rikyu |
| 1990 | Takao Saito Shōji Ueda |
Dreams |
| 1991 | Tetsuo Takaha | My Sons |
| 1992 | Kōichi Kawakami | The River with No Bridge |
| 1993 | Takeshi Hamada | We Are Not Alone |
| 1994 | Naoki Kayano | 800 Two Lap Runners |
| 1995 | Tatsuo Suzuki | Sharaku |
| 1996 | Osame Maruike | Sleeping Man |
| 1997 | Daisaku Kimura | Yūkai |
| Masaki Tamura | Suzaku 2/Duo | |
| 1998 | Hideo Yamamoto | Hana-bi The Bird People in China |
| 1999 | Yoshitaka Sakamoto | Spellbound |
| 2000 | Shōji Ueda | After the Rain |
| 2001 | Masakazu Fujisawa | Inugami Turn Koko ni Irukoto |
| 2002 | Mutsuo Naganuma | The Twilight Samurai |
| 2003 | Norimichi Kasamatsu | My House Sayonara, Kuro Akame 48 Waterfalls |
| 2004 | Kazuhiro Suzuki | Vibrator Kikansha Sensei Girlfriend Kokoro to Karada |
| 2005 | Kōzō Shibasaki | Always Sanchōme no Yūhi |
| 2006 | Kōichi Kawakami | The Blossoming of Kamiya Etsuko |
| 2007 | Hideo Nakano | The Mourning Forest |
| 2008 | Tomohiko Tsuji | United Red Army |
| 2009 | Daisaku Kimura | Mt. Tsurugidake |
| 2010 | Ryūto Kondō | Sketches of Kaitan City |
| 2011 | Nobuyasu Kita | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai |
| 2012 | Akiko Ashizawa | Chronicle of My Mother |
| 2013 | Takahiro Imai | The Backwater |
| 2014 | Shiguma Makoto | Pale Moon |
| 2015 | Masakazu Fujisawa | Solomon's Perjury |
| 2016 | Kōichi Saitō | 64: Part I & 64: Part II |
| 2017 | Yōichi Kamakari | The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue |
| 2018 | Yūta Tsukinaga | Mori, The Artist's Habitat |
| 2019 | Christopher Doyle | They Say Nothing Stays the Same |
| 2020 | Hiromitsu Nishimura | Underdog |
| 2021 | Norimichi Kasamatsu | Under the Open Sky |
| 2022 | Yūta Tsukinaga | Small, Slow But Steady |
| 2023 | Yōichi Kamakari | The Moon |
| 2024 | Naoya Ikeda | 11 Rebels |
| 2025 | Sofian El Fani | Kokuho |
References
- ^ "コンクールの歴史" [History of Mainichi Film Award] (in Japanese). The Mainichi Newspapers. Retrieved 2015-04-22.
- ^ "Mainichi Film Concours" (in Japanese). IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 2015-04-22.