Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography explained

Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography
Awarded For:Best cinematography of the year
Country:Japan
Year:1946

The Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.[1] [2]

List of winners

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

Notes and References

  1. News: コンクールの歴史. History of Mainichi Film Award. 2015-04-22. The Mainichi Newspapers. Japanese.
  2. News: Mainichi Film Concours. 2015-04-22. IMDb.com, Inc.. Japanese.