In the following three years, Ozu accomplished the (in the opinion of one scholar) “astonishing” feat of winning, three times in a row, the “Best Film” award in "Kinema Junpo" magazine's "Best Ten" critics’ prize, the most prestigious of Japanese film awards at that time. These three films were "I Was Born, But..." ("Umarete wa Mita Keredo", 1932), "Passing Fancy" ("Dekigokoro", 1933) and "A Story of Floating Weeds" ("Ukigusa Monogatari", 1934), respectively. Other films Ozu directed during the 1930s also won prizes in these annual awards. One critic, Hideo Tsumura, wrote in 1938 that Japan had produced thus far only two great filmmakers: Ozu and his close friend Sadao Yamanaka. Since Yamanaka made films exclusively of the "jidaigeki" type, Tsumura's statement would seem to indicate that, to this critic and perhaps to others, Ozu had become the preeminent "shomingeki" director.