Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director is a prize recognizing the work of a director of a Japanese film. It is awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards.^[1][2]

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director
Awarded for	Best Performance by a Director
Country	Japan
Presented by	The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists
First award	1950

List of winners

No.	Year	Director	Film(s)
1	1950	Tadashi Imai	Until We Meet Again
2	1951	Yasujirō Ozu	Early Summer
3	1952	Mikio Naruse	Lightning Mother
4	1953	Tadashi Imai	Himeyuri no Tō
5	1954	Kenji Mizoguchi	The Crucified Lovers
6	1955	Shirō Toyoda	Meoto zenzai
7	1956	Tadashi Imai	Mahiru no ankoku
8	1957	Tadashi Imai	The Rice People Jun'ai Monogatari
9	1958	Tomotaka Tasaka	A Slope in the Sun
10	1959	Kon Ichikawa	Odd Obsession Fires on the Plain
11	1960	Kon Ichikawa	Her Brother
12	1961	Daisuke Itō	Hangyakuji
13	1962	Kon Ichikawa	Being Two Isn't Easy The Broken Commandment
14	1963	Shohei Imamura	The Insect Woman
15	1964	Hiroshi Teshigahara	The Woman in the Dunes
16	1965	Satsuo Yamamoto	Nippon Dorobō Monogatari Shōnin no Isu
17	1966	Yoji Yamada	Un ga Yokerya
18	1975	Kinji Fukasaku	Graveyard of Honor Cops vs. Thugs
19	1976	Shigeyuki Yamane	Saraba Natsu no Hikari Yo Permanent Blue Manatsu no Koi
20	1977	Yoji Yamada	The Yellow Handkerchief
21	1978	Yoshitarō Nomura	The Demon The Incident
22	1979	Shohei Imamura	Vengeance Is Mine
23	1980	Seijun Suzuki	Zigeunerweisen
24	1981	Kichitaro Negishi	Enrai Crazy Fruit
25	1982	Kinji Fukasaku	Fall Guy
26	1983	Yoshimitsu Morita	The Family Game
27	1984	Juzo Itami	The Funeral
28	1985	Akira Kurosawa	Ran
29	1986	Kei Kumai	The Sea and Poison
30	1987	Kazuo Hara	The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
31	1988	Makoto Wada	Kaitō Ruby
32	1989	Toshio Masuda	Shaso
33	1990	Masahiro Shinoda	Childhood Days
34	1991	Takeshi Kitano	A Scene at the Sea
35	1992	Masayuki Suo	Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
36	1993	Yōjirō Takita	We Are Not Alone
37	1994	Tatsumi Kumashiro	Like a Rolling Stone
38	1995	Shusuke Kaneko	Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
39	1996	Takeshi Kitano	Kids Return
40	1997	Masato Harada	Bounce Ko Gals
41	1998	Takeshi Kitano	Hana-bi
42	1999	Nagisa Oshima	Gohatto
43	2000	Junji Sakamoto	Face
44	2001	Isao Yukisada	Go
45	2002	Yoichi Sai	Doing Time
46	2003	Yoshimitsu Morita	Like Asura
47	2004	Hirokazu Koreeda	Nobody Knows
48	2005	Junya Sato	Yamato
49	2006	Miwa Nishikawa	Sway
50	2007	Masayuki Suo	I Just Didn't Do It
51	2008	Hirokazu Koreeda	Still Walking
52	2009	Miwa Nishikawa	Dear Doctor
53	2010	Yuya Ishii	Sawako Decides
54	2011	Kaneto Shindo	Postcard
55	2012	Kenji Uchida	Kagi Dorobō no Method
56	2013	Tatsushi Ōmori	Bozo The Ravine of Goodbye
57	2014	Mipo O	The Light Shines Only There
58	2015	Ryōsuke Hashiguchi	Three Stories of Love
59	2016	Sunao Katabuchi	In This Corner of the World
60	2017	Kazuya Shiraishi	Birds Without Names
61	2018	Kazuya Shiraishi	The Blood of Wolves
62	2019	Tetsuya Mariko	Miyamoto
63	2020	Ryōta Nakano	The Asadas
64	2021	Miwa Nishikawa	Under the Open Sky
65	2022	Chie Hayakawa	Plan 75
66	2023	Yuya Ishii	The Moon Masked Hearts
67	2024	Yu Irie	A Girl Named Ann