# Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

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 Noda Yasujirō Ozu |
| 1950 | Itsuwareru Seisō | Kaneto Shindo |
| 1951 | Carmen Comes Home | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 1952 | Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto Hideo Oguni |
| 1953 | A Japanese Tragedy Magokoro Koibumi | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 1954 | Twenty-Four Eyes The Garden of Women | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| 1955 | Meoto zenzai Ukikusa Nikki Wataridori Itsu Kaeru | Toshio Yasumi |
| 1956 | Mahiru no ankoku Hakusen | Shinobu Hashimoto |
| 1957 | An Osaka Story Stepbrothers | Yoshikata Yoda |
| 1958 | Harikomi Iwashigumo Yoru no Tuzumi | Shinobu Hashimoto |
| 1959 | Kiku to Isamu | Yōko Mizuki |
| 1960 | Kuroi Gashū Irohanihoheto | Shinobu Hashimoto |
| 1961 | The Human Condition Namonaku Mazushiku Utsukushiku Futari no Musuko | Zenzo Matsuyama |
| 1962 | Being Two Isn't Easy The Broken Commandment | Natto Wada |
| 1963 | High and Low | Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni Ryūzō Kikushima Eijirō Hisaita |
| 1964 | Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu Ai to Shi o Mitsumete | Yasutarō Yagi |
| 1965 | A Fugitive from the Past Hiyameshi to Osanto Chan | Naoyuki Suzuki |
| 1966 | Shiroi Kyotō | Shinobu Hashimoto |
| 1967 | Wakamono Tachi | Hisashi Yamanouchi |
| 1968 | The Profound Desire of the Gods | Shohei Imamura Keiji Hasebe |
| 1969 | Boy | Tsutomu Tamura |
| 1970 | Where Spring Comes Late | Yoji Yamada |
| 1970 | Tora-san's Runaway | Akira Miyazaki |
| 1971 | The Ceremony | Mamoru Sasaki Nagisa Ōshima |
| 1972 | The Rendezvous Tabi no Omosa | Fumio Ishimori |
| 1973 | Tora-san's Forget Me Not | Yoji Yamada Akira Miyazaki Yoshitaka Asama |
| 1974 | Castle of Sand | Shinobu Hashimoto Yoji Yamada |
| 1975 | Matsuri no Junbi | Takehiro Nakajima |
| 1976 | Fumō Chitai | Nobuo Yamada |
| 1977 | The Yellow Handkerchief | Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama |
| 1978 | Jiken | Kaneto Shindo |
| 1979 | Vengeance Is Mine | Masaru Baba |
| 1980 | Zigeunerweisen | Yōzō Tanaka |
| 1981 | Station | Sō Kuramoto |
| 1982 | Suspicion | Motomu Furuta Yoshitarō Nomura |
| 1983 | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Ōshima |
| 1983 | The Family Game | Yoshimitsu Morita |
| 1984 | W's Tragedy | Haruhiko Arai Shinichiro Sawai |
| 1985 | Fire Festival | Kenji Nakagami |
| 1985 | Typhoon Club | Yūji Kato |
| 1986 | Comic Magazine | Yuya Uchida Isao 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 Mitani Tokyo Sunshine Boys |
| 1992 | The Triple Cross | Shōichi Maruyama |
| 1993 | All Under the Moon | Yoichi Sai Wui Sin Chong |
| 1993 | Niji no Hashi Bōkyō | Zenzo Matsuyama |
| 1994 | Ghost Pub Natsu 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 Letter A, Haru | Takehiro Nakajima |
| 1999 | M/Other | Nobuhiro Suwa Tomokazu Miura Makiko Watanabe |
| 2000 | A Class to Remember | Yoji Yamada Yoshitaka Asama Emiko Hiramatsu |
| 2001 | Go | Kankurō Kudō |
| 2002 | Out | Wui Sin Chong |
| 2003 | Hebi Ichigo | Miwa Nishikawa |
| 2003 | Battle Royale II: Requiem | Kenta Fukasaku Norio 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 |