Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography

Mainichi Film Award for Best Cinematography
Awarded for	Best cinematography of the year
Country	Japan
First awarded	1946

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

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
1997	Yūkai	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	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai	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	64: Part I & 64: Part II	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