The Mainichi Film Award for Best Sound Recording is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.

Award winners Year Film Recording Technician 1947 Joyū Shigeharu Yasue 1948 Waga Shōgai no Kagayakeru Hi Saburō Ōmura 1949 Good Bye Masakazu Kamiya 1950 Escape at DawnPortrait of Madame Yuki Masakazu Kamiya 1951 Repast Masao Fujiyoshi 1952 Ikiru Fumio Yanoguchi 1953 Ugetsu Iwao Ōtani 1954 Kono Hiroi Sora no DokokaniThe Garden of WomenTwenty-Four Eyes Hisao Ōno 1955 Floating Clouds Hisashi Shimonaga 1956 Shin Heike MonogatariShin Heike Monogatari Yoshinaka o Meguru Sannin no OnnaZangiku monogatariYoru no Kawa Yukio Kaihara 1957 The Rice PeopleJun'ai Monogatari Hirokazu Iwata 1958 Equinox Flower Saburō Senoyoshi 1959 Saijo KishitsuMy Second Brother Fumio Hashimoto 1960 Yakuza SenseiAshita Hareruka Masakazu Kamiya 1961 Shaka Masao Ōsumi 1962 Harakiri Hideo Nishizaki 1963 Onna no Rekishi Masao Fujiyoshi 1964 Unholy Desire Koshirō Jinbo 1965 Tokyo Olympiad Toshihiko Inoue and recording staffs 1966 Akogare Masao Fujiyoshi 1967 Portrait of ChiekoSekishun Toshio Tanaka 1968 The Sands of Kurobe Tetsuo YasudaKenichi Benitani 1969 The Love Suicides at Amijima Hideo Nishizaki 1970 Men and War: Part I Tsuneo Furuyama 1971 Inn of EvilSilenceThe Ceremony Hideo Nishizaki 1972 The Long DarknessOngaku Mutsutoshi Ōta 1973 Tsugaru Jongara Bushi Takaya Sugiura 1974 Himiko Hideo Nishizaki 1975 Matsuri no JunbiDokkoi! Ningenbushi Yukio Kubota 1976 The Inugami Family Tetsuya Ōhashi 1977 The Yellow Handkerchief Hiroshi Nakamura 1978 Third Base Yukio Kubota 1979 Vengeance Is Mine Shōtarō Yoshida 1980 Virus Kenichi Benitani 1981 The Love Suicides at SonezakiEijanaika Shōtarō Yoshida 1982 The Go Masters Fumio HashimotoLü Qingchang (呂慶昌) 1983 The Ballad of Narayama Kenichi Benitani 1984 Shanghai Rhapsody Kazuhisa Takahashi 1985 SorekaraLove LetterEarly Spring StoryTampopo Fumio Hashimoto 1986 Uemura Naomi Monogatari Fumio Hashimoto 1987 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On Toyohiko Kuribayashi 1988 Bokura no Nanokakan Sensō Ichirō Tsujii 1989 Beijing Watermelon Masatoshi YokomizoShōhei Hayashi 1990 The Sting of DeathChildhood Days Hideo Nishizaki 1991 A Scene at the Sea Senji Horiuchi 1992 Original Sin Tsutomu Honda 1993 Bloom in the Moonlight Yoshio HoriikeManabu Kakuhata Byōin de Shinu to Iukoto Yasuo Hashimoto 1994 Like a Rolling StoneTokarefu Kiyoshi Kakizawa 1995 SharakuKinkyū Yobidashi Emergency Call Tetsuo Segawa 1996 Nemuru Otoko Sōichi Inoue A Class to Remember 2 Isao Suzuki 1997 Mi mo Kokoro mo Kōichi Hayashi 1998 Give It All Hiromichi Kōri 1999 Osaka StoryGamera 3: The Revenge of Iris Yasuo Hashimoto 2000 Face Fumio Hashimoto 2001 Onmyoji Osamu OnoderaKiyoshi Kakizawa 2002 The Twilight Samurai Kazumi Kishida 2003 Hotel HibiscusGet Up! Mitsugu Shiratori 2004 Nobody Knows Yutaka Tsurumaki 2005 Itsuka dokusho suruhi Masatoshi Yokomizo 2006 Hula GirlsSway Mitsugu Shiratori What the Snow Brings Osamu Onodera 2007 Talk Talk Talk Masato Komatsu 2008 Departures Satoshi Ozaki 2009 Mt. Tsurugidake Kenichi Ishidera 2010 13 Assassins Jun Nakamura 2011 Postcard Satoshi Ozaki 2012 Kita no Kanaria Tachi Junichi Shima 2013 The Story of Yonosuke Masato Yano 2014 The Eternal Zero Ken'ichi Fujimoto 2015 Three Stories of Love Takeshi Ogawa 2016 Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow Mitsugu Shiratori 2017 The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue Hirokazu Katō and Kengo Takasuka 2018 Every Day A Good Day Noriyoshi Yoshida 2019 Another World Ken'ichi Fujimoto 2020 Underdog Kazunori Fujimoto 2021 Last of the Wolves Tomoharu Urata 2022 Small, Slow But Steady Takamitsu Kawai 2023 Okiku and the World Jun'ichi Shima 2024 11 Rebels Tomoharu Urata 2025 Kokuho Mitsugu Shiratori

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