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The Blue Ribbon Awards, presented by film critics and writers in Tokyo, has announced the winners for the 65th edition which honours films released in 2022. Kei Ishikawa’s A Man takes the Best Film prize but Chie Hayakawa walks away with Best Director for Plan 75 which also picks up Best Actress for Chieko Baisho.
Best Film
- A Man
- Kingdom 2: To Distant Lands
- Small, Slow But Steady
- Missing
- Silent Parade
- Dr. Coto’s Clinic
- Plan 75
- Motherhood
- Fragments of the Last Will
- Wandering
Best Director
Best Actor
- Sadao Abe (Lesson in Murder, I am Makimoto)
- Jiro Sato (Missing)
- Satoshi Tsumabuki (A Man)
- Kazunari Ninomiya (Tang, Fragments of the Last Will)
- Masaharu Fukuyama (Silent Parade)
Best Actress
- Kasumi Arimura (Prior Convictions)
- Yukino Kishii (One Day, You Will Reach the Sea; Small, Slow But Steady)
- Nana Komatsu (The Last Ten Years)
- Erika Toda (Motherhood)
- Chieko Baisho (Plan 75)
- Suzu Hirose (Wandering)
Best Supporting Actor
- Kazuki Iio (Silent Parade)
- Hayato Isomura (Prior Convictions, Plan 75, Offbeat Cops , The Fish Tale)
- Masataka Kubota (My Broken Mariko, A Man)
- Ayumu Nakajima (The Nighthawk’s First Love, Fragments of the Last Will)
- Ryusei Yokohama (Wandering)
Best Supporting Actress
- Sakura Ando (A Man, Korosuna)
- Machiko Ono (Anime Supremacy!, Soul At Twenty, Sabakan, Thousand and One Nights)
- Nana Seino (Kingdom 2: To Distant Lands, Offbeat Cops, A Man)
- Atsuko Takahata (Motherhood)
- Ryoko Hirosue (The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie, 2 Women)
Best Newcomer
- Lina Kahafizadeh (My Small Land)
- Koki (Ox-Head Village)
- Haruto Shiratori (Tombi: Father and Son, It’s All My Fault)
- Konosuke Harada (Sabakan)
- Ichiro Banka (Sabakan)
Best Foreign Film
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- West Side Story
- Cry Macho
- Coda
- Top Gun: Maverick
- King Richard
- Blue Bayou
- Broker
- Belfast
- Lamb
Sources: Eiga Natalie, Nikkan Sports
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