Kinema Junpo Awards

Kinema Junpo
キネマ旬報

Cover of the first issue of Kinema Junpo, dated July 11, 1919.
Categories	Film
Frequency	Semimonthly
Publisher	Masanobu Shimizu (清水勝之)
Founder	Saburō Tanaka
First issue	July 11, 1919 (1919-07-11)
Company	Kinema Junposha KK
Country	Japan
Based in	Minato-ku, Tokyo
Language	Japanese
Website	Official website

Kinema Junpo (キネマ旬報, Kinema Junpō^?), commonly called Kinejun (キネ旬^?), 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). In that first month, it was published three times on days with a "1" in them. These first three issues were printed on art paper and had four pages each. Kinejun initially specialized in covering foreign films, in part because its writers sided with the principles of the Pure Film Movement and strongly criticized Japanese cinema. It later expanded coverage to films released in Japan. While long emphasizing film criticism, it has also served as a trade journal, reporting on the film industry in Japan and announcing new films and trends.

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.