Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

The Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is an award presented annually by the Japan Academy Prize Association.

Japan Academy Prize for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Country	Japan
Presented by	Japan Academy Prize Association
First award	1978
Currently held by	Sakura Ando A Man (2022)
Website	japan-academy-prize.jp

At the 1st Japan Academy Prize ceremony held in 1978, Kaori Momoi was the first winner of this award for her role in The Yellow Handkerchief. Since its inception, the award has been given to 36 actresses. Kimiko Yo has received the most awards in this category with three awards. As of the 2019 ceremony, Kirin Kiki is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Hatsue Shibata in Shoplifters.

Winners

Year	Actress	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1977 (1st)	Kaori Momoi	Akemi Ogawa	The Yellow Handkerchief	[1]
1978 (2nd)	Shinobu Otake	Yoshiko Sakai Haruko Mizuno	The Incident Seishoku no Ishibumi	[2]
1979 (3rd)	Mayumi Ogawa	Reiko Karasawa Haru Asano	The Three Undelivered Letters Vengeance Is Mine	[3]
1980 (4th)	Michiyo Ōkusu	Shuko Aochi	Zigeunerweisen	[4]
1981 (5th)	Yūko Tanaka	Ōei Omatsu	Edo Porn Eijanaika	[5]
1982 (6th)	Rumiko Koyanagi	Yoshie Furuya	To Trap a Kidnapper	[6]
1983 (7th)	Atsuko Asano	Tamako Azusa Ogata	The Geisha Dirty Hero (ja)	[7]
1984 (8th)	Kin Sugai	Kikue Amamiya Sen Nakamura	The Funeral Hissatsu: Sure Death	[8]
1985 (9th)	Yoshiko Mita	Sho Hatori Noriko Narumi	W's Tragedy Haru no Kane	[9]
1986 (10th)	Mieko Harada	Keiko Yajima Yae Ms. Ohana	House on Fire Kokushi Muso Prussian Blue no Shōzō (ja)	[10]
1987 (11th)	Rino Katase	Asami Enoki Kikugawa	Yakuza Ladies 2 (ja) Tokyo Bordello (ja)	[11]
1988 (12th)	Eri Ishida	Tae Sakiko Taniguchi Noe Itō	Wuthering Heights Hope and Pain A Chaos of Flowers	[12]
1989 (13th)	Etsuko Ichihara	Senkichi Mizuta	Buddies (ja)	[13]
1990 (14th)	Eri Ishida	Michiko Hamasaki Michiko Hamasaki Mutsuko Miyabayashi	Tsuribaka Nisshi 2 Tsuribaka Nisshi 3 (ja) A Paucity of Flying Dreams	[14]
1991 (15th)	Emi Wakui	Yōko Akiyama Seiko Kawashima	No Worries on the Recruit Front My Sons	[15]
1992 (16th)	Miwako Okamura	Kogiku Kokuraya Reiko	The Oil-Hell Murder Netorare Sosuke	[16]
1993 (17th)	Kyōko Kagawa	Professor's Wife	Madadayo	[17]
1994 (18th)	Shigeru Muroi	Shizuko	Ghost Pub	[18]
1995 (19th)	Nobuko Otowa	Toyoko Yanagawa	A Last Note	[19]
1996 (20th)	Eri Watanabe	Toyoko Takahashi	Shall We Dance?	[20]
1997 (21st)	Mitsuko Baisho	Masako Nakajima	The Eel	[21]
1998 (22nd)	Kumiko Asō	Sonoko Manabe	Dr. Akagi	[22]
1999 (23rd)	Kayoko Kishimoto	Kikujiro's Wife	Kikujiro	[23]
2000 (24th)	Mieko Harada	Okin	After the Rain	[24]
2001 (25th)	Ko Shibasaki	Tsubaki Sakurai	Go	[25]
2002 (26th)	Tanie Kitabayashi	Grandma Oume	Letter from the Mountain (ja)	[26]
2003 (27th)	Eri Fukatsu	Takiko Takezawa	Like Asura	[27]
2004 (28th)	Masami Nagasawa	Aki Hirose	Crying Out Love in the Center of the World	[28]
2005 (29th)	Hiroko Yakushimaru	Tomoe Suzuki	Always Sanchōme no Yūhi	[29]
2006 (30th)	Yū Aoi	Kimiko Tanigawa	Hula Girls	[30]
2007 (31st)	Masako Motai (ja)	Toyoko Kaneko	I Just Didn't Do It	[31]
2008 (32nd)	Kimiko Yo	Yuriko Uemura	Departures	[32]
2009 (33rd)	Kimiko Yo	Akemi Otake	Dear Doctor	[33]
2010 (34th)	Kirin Kiki	Fusae Shimizu	Villain	[34]
2011 (35th)	Hiromi Nagasaku	Kiwako Nonomiya / Rutsu	Rebirth (ja)	[35]
2012 (36th)	Kimiko Yo	Tamiko Hamazaki	Anata e	[36]
2013 (37th)	Yōko Maki	Yukari Saiki	Like Father, Like Son	[37]
2014 (38th)	Haru Kuroki	Taki Nunomiya	The Little House	[38]
2015 (39th)	Haru Kuroki	Machiko Sata	Nagasaki: Memories of My Son	[39]
2016 (40th)	Hana Sugisaki	Azumi Sachino	Her Love Boils Bathwater	[40]
2017 (41st)	Suzu Hirose	Sakie Yamanaka	The Third Murder	[41]
2018 (42nd)	Kirin Kiki	Hatsue Shibata	Shoplifters	[42]
2019 (43rd)	Masami Nagasawa	Yang Duan He	Kingdom	[43]
2020 (44th)	Haru Kuroki	Wakana Kawakami	The Asadas
2021 (45th)	Kaya Kiyohara	Mikiko Maruyama	In the Wake
2022 (46th)	Sakura Ando	Rie Taniguchi	A Man
2023 (47th)	Sakura Ando	Sumiko Ōta	Godzilla Minus One
2024 (48th)	Riho Yoshioka	Sayaka Ando	Faceless

Multiple wins

The following individuals received two or more Best Supporting Actress awards:

Wins	Actress
3	Kimiko Yo
	Haru Kuroki
2	Mieko Harada
	Eri Ishida
	Kirin Kiki
	Masami Nagasawa
	Sakura Ando