Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress

The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress is as part of its annual Blue Ribbon Awards for Japanese film, to recognize a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The award was first given in 1954 for the films released in preceding year 1950.

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
CountryJapan Japan
Presented byThe Association of Tokyo Film Journalists
First awarded1950

List of winners

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No. Year Recipient Film(s)
1 1950 Chikage Awashima Crazy Uproar
2 1951 Setsuko Hara Repast
Early Summer
3 1952 Isuzu Yamada The Moderns
Hakone Fūunroku
4 1953 Nobuko Otowa Yokubo
Epitome
Life of a Woman
5 1954 Hideko Takamine Twenty-Four Eyes
The Garden of Women
Somewhere Under the Broad Sky
6 1955 Chikage Awashima Sweet Beans for Two
7 1956 Isuzu Yamada Boshizō
A Cat, Shozo, and Two Women
Nagareru
8 1957 Yūko Mochizuki Unagitori
The Rice People
9 1958 Fujiko Yamamoto The Snowy Heron
Equinox Flower
10 1959 Tanie Kitabayashi Kiku to Isamu
11 1960 Keiko Kishi Her Brother
12 1961 Ayako Wakao A Wife Confesses
Onna wa nido umareru
The Age of Marriage
13 1962 Sayuri Yoshinaga Foundry Town
14 1963 Sachiko Hidari The Insect Woman
Kanojo to kare
15 1964 Shima Iwashita The Scarlet Camellia
16 1965 Ayako Wakao Seisaku's Wife
Nami kage
17 1966 Yoko Tsukasa The River Kino
18 1975 Ruriko Asaoka Tora-san's Rise and Fall
19 1976 Kumiko Akiyoshi Brother and Sister
Saraba natsuno hikariyo
20 1977 Shima Iwashita Ballad of Orin
21 1978 Meiko Kaji The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
22 1979 Kaori Momoi No More Easy Life
Heaven Sent
23 1980 Yukiyo Toake Furueru Shita
24 1981 Keiko Matsuzaka The Gate of Youth
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
25 1982 Masako Natsume Onimasa
26 1983 Yūko Tanaka Crossing Mt. Amagi
27 1984 Hiroko Yakushimaru W's Tragedy
28 1985 Yukiyo Toake Gray Sunset
29 1986 Ayumi Ishida House on Fire
Tokei – Adieu l'hiver
30 1987 Yoshiko Mita Wakarenu riyû
31 1988 Kaori Momoi The Yen Family
Love Bites Back
Tomorrow - ashita
32 1989 Yoshiko Tanaka Black Rain
33 1990 Keiko Matsuzaka The Sting of Death
34 1991 Youki Kudoh War and Youth
35 1992 Yoshiko Mita Faraway Sunset
36 1993 Ruby Moreno All Under the Moon
37 1994 Saki Takaoka Crest of Betrayal
38 1995 Miho Nakayama Love Letter
39 1996 Mieko Harada Village of Dreams
40 1997 Kaori Momoi Tokyo Lullaby
41 1998 Mieko Harada Begging for Love
42 1999 Kyōka Suzuki Keiho
43 2000 Sayuri Yoshinaga Nagasaki burabura bushi
44 2001 Yūki Amami Inugami
Rendan
Sekai no Chushin de Ai o Sakebu
45 2002 Reiko Kataoka Hush!
46 2003 Shinobu Terajima Vibrator
Akame 48 Waterfalls
47 2004 Rie Miyazawa The Face of Jizo
48 2005 Kyōko Koizumi Hanging Garden
49 2006 Yū Aoi Hula Girls
Honey and Clover
50 2007 Kumiko Asō Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
51 2008 Tae Kimura All Around Us
52 2009 Haruka Ayase Oppai Volleyball
53 2010 Shinobu Terajima Caterpillar
54 2011 Hiromi Nagasaku Rebirth
55 2012 Sakura Ando Our Homeland
56 2013 Shihori Kanjiya Angel Home
57 2014 Sakura Ando 0.5 mm
100 Yen Love
58 2015 Kasumi Arimura Flying Colors
Strobe Edge
59 2016 Shinobu Otake Black Widow Business
60 2017 Yui Aragaki Mixed Doubles
61 2018 Mugi Kadowaki Dare to Stop Us
62 2019 Masami Nagasawa The Confidence Man JP: The Movie
63 2020 Masami Nagasawa The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Princess
Mother
64 2021 Mei Nagano And So the Baton Is Passed
Jigoku no Hanazono: Office Royale
65 2022 Chieko Baisho Plan 75
66 2023 Sayuri Yoshinaga Mom, Is That You?!
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