title: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography
text: # Blue Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography
  
  The Blue Ribbon Award for Best Cinematography is a prize recognizing the work of a cinematography of a Japanese film. It was awarded annually by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists as one of the Blue Ribbon Awards. It was lastly awarded in 1965 at 16th Blue Ribbon Awards and discontinued.
  
  ## List of winners
  
  | No. | Year | Cinematographer | Film(s) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1950 | Asakazu Nakai | Itsuwareru Gisō |
  | 2 | 1951 | Yūharu Atsuta | Wagaya wa Tanoshi Ano Oka Koete Early Summer |
  | 3 | 1952 | Kazuo Miyagawa | Senbazuru |
  | 4 | 1953 | Mitsuo Miura | Entotsu no mieru basho Gan |
  | 5 | 1954 | N/A | N/A |
  | 6 | 1955 | Hiroshi Kusuda | Tōi Kumo She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum |
  | 7 | 1956 | Mitsuo Miura | The Legend of the White Serpent Neko to Shōzō to Futari no Onna |
  | 8 | 1957 | N/A | N/A |
  | 9 | 1958 | Kazuo Miyagawa | Enjō Benten Kozō |
  | 10 | 1959 | Setsuo Kobayashi | Fires on the Plain |
  | 11 | 1960 | Kazuo Miyagawa | Her Brother |
  | 12 | 1961 | N/A | N/A |
  | 13 | 1962 | N/A | N/A |
  | 14 | 1963 | N/A | N/A |
  | 15 | 1964 | Seiki Kuroda | Onibaba |
  | 16 | 1965 | Kōzō Okazaki | Rokujō Yukiyama Tsumugi |
  