The Mainichi Film Award for Best Art Direction is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.
List of winners Year Film Art Director 1947 Ima Hitotabi no So Matsuyama 1948 Waga Shōgai no Kagayakeru HiA Hen in the Wind Tatsuo Hamada 1949 Stray Dog So Matsuyama 1950 Itsuwareru Gisō Hiroshi Mizutani 1951 Dokkoi IkiteruWakare Gumo Kazuo Kubo 1952 Nishijin no Shimai Kazumi Koike 1953 GanUgetsu Kisaku Itō 1954 A Certain WomanKuroi Shio Takeo Kimura 1955 Tasogare Sakaba Juichi Itō 1956 Nagareru Satoru Chūko 1957 Throne of BloodThe Lower Depths Yoshirō Muraki 1958 The Snowy Heron Atsuji Shibata 1959 Naniwa no Koi no MonogatariDai Bosatsu Tōge Kanketsu-hen Takatoshi Suzuki 1960 Her Brother Tomoo Shimogawara 1961 Hangyakuji Chōshirō Katsura 1962 Harakiri Junichi ŌsumiShigemasa Toda 1963 Echizen Take NingyōAn Actor's Revenge Yoshinobu Nishioka 1964 The Woman in the Dunes Toshitetsu HirakawaMasao Yamazaki 1965 Kwaidan Shigemasa Toda 1966 The Face of AnotherThe River Ki Masao Yamazaki 1967 Sekishun Chiyoo Umeda 1968 Judge and JeopardyThe Human BulletKill! Isao Akune 1969 Goyokin Motoji Kojima 1970 Men and War: Part I Yoshinaga YokooHiroshi Fukatami 1971 Inochi Bō ni Furō Hiroshi Mizutani 1972 Kaigun Tokubetsu Shōnen Hei Yoshirō Muraki 1973 Long Journey into Love Shinobu Muraki 1974 Karei Naru Ichizoku Yoshinaga YokooTakeshi Ōmura 1975 Tora-san's Rise and FallHarakara Kiminobu Satō 1976 Fumō ChitaiDaichi no Komoriuta Shigeo Mano 1977 N/A N/A 1978 The IncidentThe Demon Kyōhei Morita 1979 Nomugi Pass Shigeo Mano 1980 Kagemusha Yoshirō Muraki 1981 Willful Murder Takeo Kimura 1982 Fall Guy Akira Takahashi 1983 The Makioka Sisters Shinobu Murakami 1984 Ohan Shinobu Murakami 1985 SorekaraYashaMa no Toki Tsutomu Imamura 1986 The Sea and PoisonHouse of WedlockYume Miru Yō ni Nemuritai Takeo Kimura 1987 Yoshiwara EnjōHachiko MonogatariThe Man Who Assassinated Ryoma Yoshinobu Nishioka 1988 Tomorrow Akira Naitō 1989 Black Rain Hisao Inagaki 1990 RoningaiRuten no UmiIsan Sōzoku Akira Naitō 1991 Sensō to Seishun Akira Haruki 1992 The River with No BridgeKantsubaki Akira Naitō 1993 Byōin de Shinu to IukotoBōkyō Shigeo Mano 1994 Shinonomerō Onna no Ran Norimichi Ikawa 1995 Ashita Kazuo Takenaka 1996 Sleeping Man Yoshinaga Yokoo 1997 A Lost Paradise Hidetaka Ozawa 1998 Begging for LoveCure Katsumi Nakazawa 1999 After Life Toshihiro IsomiHideo Gunji 2000 Zawazawa ShimokitazawaFace Mitsuo Harada 2001 KazahanaMinna no Ie Fumio Ogawa 2002 Yoru o Kakete Satoshi Ōtsuka 2003 Doing TimeBattle Royale II: Requiem Toshihiro Isomi 2004 Kamikaze Girls Towako Kuwajima 2005 Always Sanchōme no Yūhi Anri Kamijō 2006 The Uchōten HotelHula Girls Yōhei Taneda 2007 Sukiyaki Western Django Hisashi Sasaki 2008 Nishi no Majo ga Shinda Kyōko Yauchi 2009 Villon's Wife Yōhei TanedaKyōko Yauchi 2010 Bushi no Kakeibo Nariyuki Kondō 2011 Postcard Hirokazu Kanakatsu 2012 Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer Kyōko Heya 2013 The Great Passage Mitsuo Harada 2014 Over Your Dead Body Yūji HayashidaEri Sakushima 2015 The Emperor in August Tetsuo Harada 2016 Shin Godzilla Yūji HayashidaEri Sakushima 2017 Hanagatami Kōichi Takeuchi 2018 Every Day A Good Day Mitsuo HaradaGenki Horime 2019 Talking the Pictures Norihiro Isoda 2020 Tezuka's Barbara Toshihiro IsomiEmiko Tsuyuki 2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai Tetsuo Harada 2022 Lesson in Murder Tsutomu ImamuraTakayuki Nitta 2023 Godzilla Minus One Anri Jōjō 2024 The Box Man Yūji Hayashida 2025 Kokuho Yohei TanedaNao Shimoyama
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