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Kinema Junpo

Japanese film magazine


Summary

Japanese film magazine

FieldValue
titleKinema Junpo
キネマ旬報
logoKinema Junpo キネマ旬報 logo.png
logo_size300px
image_fileKinemaJunpo (TheMovieTimes) 1919-07-11 No1 cover.jpg
image_altCover of the first issue of Kinema Junpo, dated July 11, 1919
image_captionCover of the first issue of Kinema Junpo, dated July 11, 1919
categoryFilm
frequencySemimonthly
publisherMasanobu Shimizu (清水勝之)
founderSaburō Tanaka
firstdate
companyKinema Junposha KK
countryJapan
basedMinato-ku, Tokyo
languageJapanese
website

キネマ旬報

Kinema Junpo, commonly called Kinejun, is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese Jun (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar Kinema Junpō has been published twice a month.

The magazine was founded by a group of four students, including Saburō Tanaka, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Technical High School at the time).

After their building was destroyed in the Great Kantō earthquake in September 1923, the Kinejun offices were moved to the city of Ashiya in the Hanshin area of Japan, though the main offices are now back in Tokyo.

The Kinema Junpo Best Ten awards began in 1924, their Best Ten lists are considered iconic and prestigious. Initially launched as accolades for foreign films, awards for Japanese films were established in 1926 and readers' choice awards were introduced in 1972.

Kinema Junpo Best Ten

Japanese Films of All Time (2009 list)

#FilmYear
1Tokyo Story1953
2Seven Samurai1954
3Floating Clouds1955
4Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate1957
5Battles Without Honor and Humanity1973
6Twenty-Four Eyes1954
7Rashomon1950
7The Million Ryo Pot1935
7The Man Who Stole the Sun1979
10The Family Game1983
10Stray Dog1949
10Typhoon Club1985

Non-Japanese Films of All Time (2009 list)

#FilmYear
1The Godfather1972
2West Side Story1961
2Taxi Driver1976
4The Third Man1949
5Breathless1960
5The Wild Bunch1969
72001: A Space Odyssey1968
8Roman Holiday1953
8Blade Runner1982
10Stagecoach1939
10Children of Paradise1945
10La Strada1954
10Vertigo1958
10Lawrence of Arabia1962
10The Conformist1970
10Apocalypse Now1979
10The South1983
10Gran Torino2008

Japanese Animated Films of All Time (2009 list)

#FilmYear
1The Castle of Cagliostro1979
2Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind1984
3My Neighbor Totoro1988
4Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Adult Empire Strikes Back2001
5Akira1988
6The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots1969
7The Tale of the White Serpent1958
7Hols: Prince of the Sun1968
7Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer1984
10Castle in the Sky1986
10Grave of the Fireflies1988
10Summer Days with Coo2007
10Summer Wars2009

Non-Japanese Animated Films of All Time (2010 list)

#FilmYear
1Fantasia1940
2The Nightmare Before Christmas1993
3Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs1937
4Le Roi et l'oiseau1980
5Hedgehog in the Fog1975
6Mr. Bug Goes to Town1941
7Toy Story1995
8Up2009
8The Man Who Planted Trees1987
10The Iron Giant1999
10The Wrong Trousers1993

Movie star and Director of the 20th century

Japanese

#Actor#Actress#Director
1.Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997)1.Setsuko Hara (1920-2015)1.Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
2.Yujiro Ishihara (1934-1987)2.Sayuri Yoshinaga (1945-)2.Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963)
3.Masayuki Mori (1911-1973)3.Machiko Kyō (1924-2019)3.Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)
4.Ken Takakura (1931-2014)4.Hideko Takamine (1924-2010)4.Keisuke Kinoshita (1912-1998)
5.Chishū Ryū (1904-1993)5.Kinuyo Tanaka (1909-1977)5.Mikio Naruse (1905-1969)
6.Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1931-1969)6.Isuzu Yamada (1917-2012)6.Yoji Yamada (1931-)
7.Tsumasaburō Bandō (1901-1953)7.Masako Natsume (1957-1985)7.Kinji Fukasaku (1930-2003)
7.Shintaro Katsu (1931-1997)8.Keiko Kishi (1932-)7.Kon Ichikawa (1915-2008)
9.Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928-1996)8.Ayako Wakao (1933-)7.Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013)
9.Hisaya Morishige (1913-2009)10.Sumiko Fuji (1945-)7.Tomu Uchida (1898-1970)
9.Yorozuya Kinnosuke (1932-1997)10.Shima Iwashita(1941-)11.Hayao Miyazaki(1941-)

Foreign

#Actor#Actress#Director
1.Gary Cooper (1901–1961)1.Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993)1.Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
2.Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)2.Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)2.Federico Fellini (1920–1993)
2.John Wayne (1907–1979)3.Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982)3.John Ford (1894–1973)
4.Marlon Brando (1924–2004)4.Vivien Leigh (1913–1967)4.Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)
4.Alain Delon (1935–2024)5.Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)4.Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022)
4.Jean Gabin (1904–1976)6.Grace Kelly (1929–1982)4.Steven Spielberg (1946-)
7.Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957)7.Françoise Arnoul (1931–2021)4.Billy Wilder (1906–2002)
7.Steve McQueen (1930–1980)7.Bette Davis (1908–1989)8.Luchino Visconti (1906–1976)
9.Sean Connery (1930–2020)7.Jodie Foster (1962-)9.Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999)
9.Paul Newman (1925–2008)7.Greta Garbo (1905–1990)10.Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)
7.Anna Karina (1940–2019)
7.Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017)
7.Romy Schneider (1938–1982)
7.Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011)
  • List of winners each year:

Annual award categories

These are the categories of awards:

  • Best Japanese Director
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best Leading Actress
  • Best Leading Actor
  • Best Supporting Actress
  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Best Newcomer Actress
  • Best Newcomer Actor
  • Best Foreign Director
  • Readers' Choice Best Japanese Director
  • Readers' Choice Best Foreign Director
  • Documentary Best One
  • Japanese Film Best Ten
  • Foreign Film Best Ten
  • Readers' Choice Japanese Film Best Ten
  • Readers' Choice Foreign Film Best Ten

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