The Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.
Award winners Year Film Scriptwriter 1946 Ōsoneke no Ashita Eijirō Hisaita 1947 One Wonderful Sunday Keinosuke Uekusa 1948 Children Hand in Hand Mansaku Itami 1949 Late Spring Kogo NodaYasujirō Ozu 1950 Itsuwareru Seisō Kaneto Shindo 1951 Carmen Comes Home Keisuke Kinoshita 1952 Ikiru Akira KurosawaShinobu HashimotoHideo Oguni 1953 A Japanese TragedyMagokoroKoibumi Keisuke Kinoshita 1954 Twenty-Four EyesThe Garden of Women Keisuke Kinoshita 1955 Meoto zenzaiUkikusa NikkiWataridori Itsu Kaeru Toshio Yasumi 1956 Mahiru no ankokuHakusen Shinobu Hashimoto 1957 An Osaka StoryStepbrothers Yoshikata Yoda 1958 HarikomiIwashigumoYoru no Tuzumi Shinobu Hashimoto 1959 Kiku to Isamu Yōko Mizuki 1960 Kuroi GashūIrohanihoheto Shinobu Hashimoto 1961 The Human ConditionNamonaku Mazushiku UtsukushikuFutari no Musuko Zenzo Matsuyama 1962 Being Two Isn't EasyThe Broken Commandment Natto Wada 1963 High and Low Akira KurosawaHideo OguniRyūzō KikushimaEijirō Hisaita 1964 Echigo Tsutsuishi OyashirazuAi to Shi o Mitsumete Yasutarō Yagi 1965 A Fugitive from the PastHiyameshi to Osanto Chan Naoyuki Suzuki 1966 Shiroi Kyotō Shinobu Hashimoto 1967 Wakamono Tachi Hisashi Yamanouchi 1968 Profound Desires of the Gods Shohei ImamuraKeiji Hasebe 1969 Boy Tsutomu Tamura 1970 Where Spring Comes Late Yoji Yamada Tora-san's Runaway Akira Miyazaki 1971 The Ceremony Mamoru SasakiNagisa Ōshima 1972 The RendezvousTabi no Omosa Fumio Ishimori 1973 Tora-san's Forget Me Not Yoji YamadaAkira MiyazakiYoshitaka Asama 1974 Castle of Sand Shinobu HashimotoYoji Yamada 1975 Matsuri no Junbi Takehiro Nakajima 1976 Fumō Chitai Nobuo Yamada 1977 The Yellow Handkerchief Yoji YamadaYoshitaka Asama 1978 Jiken Kaneto Shindo 1979 Vengeance Is Mine Masaru Baba 1980 Zigeunerweisen Yōzō Tanaka 1981 Station Sō Kuramoto 1982 Suspicion Motomu FurutaYoshitarō Nomura 1983 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Ōshima The Family Game Yoshimitsu Morita 1984 W's Tragedy Haruhiko AraiShinichiro Sawai 1985 Fire Festival Kenji Nakagami Typhoon Club Yūji Kato 1986 Comic Magazine Yuya UchidaIsao Takagi 1987 A Taxing Woman Juzo Itami 1988 Ikoka Modoroka Toshio Kamata 1989 Shaso Hiroo Matsuda 1990 Childhood Days Taichi Yamada 1991 12-nin no Yasashii Nihonjin Kōki MitaniTokyo Sunshine Boys 1992 The Triple Cross Shōichi Maruyama 1993 All Under the Moon Yoichi SaiWui Sin Chong Niji no HashiBōkyō Zenzo Matsuyama 1994 Ghost PubNatsu no Niwa The Friends Yōzō Tanaka 1995 Like Grains of Sand Ryōsuke Hashiguchi 1996 Shall We Dance? Masayuki Suo 1997 Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald Kōki Mitani 1998 Love LetterWait and See Takehiro Nakajima 1999 M/Other Nobuhiro SuwaTomokazu MiuraMakiko Watanabe 2000 A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen Yoji YamadaYoshitaka AsamaEmiko Hiramatsu 2001 Go Kankurō Kudō 2002 Out Wui Sin Chong 2003 Hebi Ichigo Miwa Nishikawa Battle Royale II: Requiem Kenta FukasakuNorio Kida 2004 Vibrator Haruhiko Arai 2005 A Stranger of Mine Kenji Uchida 2006 What the Snow Brings Masato Katō 2007 A Gentle Breeze in the Village Aya Watanabe 2008 All Around Us Ryōsuke Hashiguchi 2009 Villon's Wife Yōzō Tanaka 2010 Heaven's Story Yūki Satō 2011 Postcard Kaneto Shindo 2012 Our Homeland Yang Yong-hi 2013 The Backwater Haruhiko Arai 2014 0.5mm Momoko Andō 2015 Kakekomi Masato Harada 2016 Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow Kōsuke Mukai 2017 The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue Yuya Ishii 2018 Lying to Mom Katsumi Nojiri 2019 Another World Junji Sakamoto 2020 I Never Shot Anyone Shōichi Maruyama 2021 Intolerance Keisuke Yoshida 2022 Plan 75 Chie Hayakawa 2023 Okiku and the World Junji Sakamoto 2024 Evil Does Not Exist Ryusuke Hamaguchi 2025 Kokuho Satoko Okudera
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