Third Base

Japanese name
Kana	サード

Directed by	Yōichi Higashi
Starring	Toshiyuki Nagashima
Release date	1978 (1978)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Films directed by Yōichi Higashi

Films directed by Yōichi Higashi
Yasashii Nipponjin (1971) Third Base (1978) Mo hozue wa tsukanai (1979) Shiki Natsuko (1980) Ureshi Hazukashi Monogatari (1988) The River with No Bridge (1992) Village of Dreams (1996)

Awards for Third Base

Awards for Third Base

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film

1950–2000

Until We Meet Again (1950)
Repast (1951)
Lightning (1952)
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Floating Clouds (1955)
Mahiru no ankoku (1956)
The Rice People (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Kiku to Isamu (1959)
Her Brother (1960)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Foundry Town (1962)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Red Beard (1965)
Shiroi Kyotō (1966)
The Fossil (1974)
Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Muddy River (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1983)
MacArthur's Children (1984)
Ran (1985)
House of Wedlock (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
The Silk Road (1988)
Dotsuitarunen (1989)
Childhood Days (1990)
A Scene at the Sea (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
Like a Rolling Stone (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Boys Be Ambitious (1996)
Bounce Ko Gals (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Taboo (1999)
Battle Royale (2000)

2001–present

Spirited Away (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Break Through! (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
Kisaragi (2007)
Climber's High (2008)
Mt. Tsurugidake (2009)
Confessions (2010)
Cold Fish (2011)
Our Homeland (2012)
The Story of Yonosuke (2013)
Samurai Hustle (2014)
The Emperor in August (2015)
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Wilderness (2017)
One Cut of the Dead (2018)
Fly Me to the Saitama (2019)
Fukushima 50 (2020)
Last of the Wolves (2021)
A Man (2022)
Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Hochi Film Award for Best Film

The Inugamis (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Enrai (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
The Family Game (1983)
The Funeral (1984)
And Then (1985)
Comic Magazine (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
Tomorrow (1988)
Untamagiru (1989)
Sakura no Sono (1990)
My Sons (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
A Dedicated Life (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Spellbound (1999)
Face (2000)
Go (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Doing Time (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
Departures (2008)
The Unbroken (2009)
Villain (2010)
Rebirth (2011)
Key of Life (2012)
The Great Passage (2013)
0.5 mm (2014)
Solomon's Perjury (2015)
Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)
Wilderness (2017)
The Blood of Wolves (2018)
Listen to the Universe (2019)
The Voice of Sin (2020)
In the Wake (2021)
A Man (2022)
The Moon (2023)

v t e Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film
1927–1940	Ashi ni sawatta onna (1927) A Diary of Chuji's Travels (1928) Jobless Samurai (1929) Beheading Place (1930) What Made Her Do It? (1931) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1932) I Was Born, But... (1933) Passing Fancy (1934) A Story of Floating Weeds (1935) Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1936) Sisters of the Gion (1937) Limitless Advance (1938) Five Scouts (1939) Earth (1940)
1941–1960	Kojima no haru (1941) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1942) The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (1943) Morning for the Osone Family (1947) A Ball at the Anjo House (1948) Drunken Angel (1949) Late Spring (1950) Until We Meet Again (1951) Early Summer (1952) Ikiru (1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water (1954) Twenty-Four Eyes (1955) Floating Clouds (1956) Darkness at Noon (1957) The Rice People (1958) The Ballad of Narayama (1959) Kiku to Isamu (1960)
1961–1980	Her Brother (1961) Bad Boys (1962) Being Two Isn't Easy (1963) The Insect Woman (1964) Woman in the Dunes (1965) Red Beard (1966) The Great White Tower (1967) Samurai Rebellion (1968) The Profound Desire of the Gods (1969) Double Suicide (1970) Where Spring Comes Late (1971) The Ceremony (1972) The Long Darkness (1973) Tsugaru Folk Song (1974) Sandakan No. 8 (1975) Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1976) The Youth Killer (1977) The Yellow Handkerchief (1978) Third Base (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1980)
1981–2000	Zigeunerweisen (1981) Muddy River (1982) Fall Guy (1983) The Family Game (1984) The Funeral (1985) And Then (1986) The Sea and Poison (1987) A Taxing Woman (1988) My Neighbor Totoro (1989) Black Rain (1990) The Cherry Orchard (1991) My Sons (1992) Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1993) All Under the Moon (1994) A Dedicated Life (1995) A Last Note (1996) Shall We Dance? (1997) The Eel (1998) Fireworks (1998) Wait and See (2000)
2001–present	Face (2001) Go (2002) The Twilight Samurai (2003) A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2004) Nobody Knows (2005) Break Through! (2006) Hula Girls (2007) I Just Didn't Do It (2008) Departures (2009) Dear Doctor (2010) Villain (2011) Postcard (2012) Our Homeland (2013) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2014) The Light Shines Only There (2015) Three Stories of Love (2016) In This Corner of the World (2017) The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2018) Shoplifters (2019) It Feels So Good (2020) Wife of a Spy (2021) Drive My Car (2022) Small, Slow But Steady (2023) Okiku and the World (2024)

v t e Mainichi Film Award for Excellence Film
1976-1980	Seishun no Satsujinsha (1976) Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976) Brother and Sister (1976) The Life of Chikuzan (1977) Mount Hakkoda (1977) Ballad of Orin (1977) Nemu no Ki no Uta ga Kikoeru (1977) Third Base (1978) Empire of Passion (1978) The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1978) Kaerazaru hibi (1978) Shōdō Satsujin Musuko Yo (1979) The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) Vengeance Is Mine (1979 No More Easy Life (1979) Zigeunerweisen (1980) A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) Virus (1980)
1981-1990	Station (1981) Willful Murder (1981) Kofuku (1981) Enrai (1981) Suspicion (1982) Tōno Monogatari (1982) Farewell to the Land (1982) The Go Masters (1982) The Family Game (1983) The Makioka Sisters (1983) International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1983) The Ballad of Narayama (1983) The Funeral (1984) MacArthur's Children (1984) Mahjong hōrōki (1984) Ohan (1984) Sorekara (1985) Typhoon Club (1985) Fire Festival (1985) The Burmese Harp (1985) Uhohho Tankentai (1986) House on Fire (1986) Final Take (1986) A Promise (1986) Itazu Kuma (1987) Eiga Joyū (1987) Tora-san Goes North (1987) The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) The Discarnates (1988) Kimurake no Hitobito (1988) Tomorrow (1988) The Silk Road (1988) Shaso (1989) Death of a Tea Master (1989) Dotsuitarunen (1989) Rikyu (1989) The Cherry Orchard (1990) Dreams (1990) The Sting of Death (1990) Shiroi Te (1990)
1991–2000	Rainbow Kids (1991) Rhapsody in August (1991) A Scene at the Sea (1991) Munō no Hito (1991) Seishun Dendeke Dekedeke (1992) The River with No Bridge (1992) Original Sin (1992) Tōki Rakujitsu (1992) Moving (1993) A Class to Remember (1993) Byōin de Shinu to Iukoto (1993) We Are Not Alone (1993) Ghost Pub (1994) 119 (1994) Crest of Betrayal (1994) Natsu no Niwa Friend (1994) Bō no Kanashimi (1994) Kura (1995) Sharaku (1995) Deep River (1995) Love Letter (1995) Village of Dreams(1996) A Class to Remember 2 (1996) Kids Return (1996) Sleeping Man (1996) The Eel (1997) Yūkai (1997) Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997) A Class to Remember 3 (1998) Dr. Akagi (1998) Give It All (1998) Hana-bi (1998) Kikujiro (1999) Jubaku: Spellbound (1999) Keiho (1999) M/Other (1999) After the Rain (2000) Gohatto (2000) A lass to Remember 4 (2000) Nabbie's Love (2000)
2001–2010	Waterboys (2001) Go (2001) Nihon no Kuroi Natsu: Enzai (2001) Battle Royale (2001) The Firefly (2001) Out (2002) Amidadō Dayori (2002) KT (2002) Hush! (2002) Like Asura (2003) Zatoichi (2003) Spy Sorge (2003) Doppelganger (2003) Nobody Knows (2004) Princess Raccoon (2005) Hula Girls (2006) A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007) All Around Us (2008) Mt. Tsurugidake (2009) Haru's Journey (2010)
2011–2020	Saudade (2011) The Kirishima Thing (2012) Pecoross' Mother and Her Days (2013) The Light Shines Only There (2014) Journey to the Shore (2015) In This Corner of the World (2016) Wilderness (2017) The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018) The Journalist (2019) Underdog (2020)
2021–present	Under the Open Sky (2021) No Place to Go (2022) Shadow of Fire (2023)

Awards and nominations

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