# Mainichi Film Award for Best Sound Recording

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 Dawn Portrait of Madame Yuki | Masakazu Kamiya |
| 1951 | Repast | Masao Fujiyoshi |
| 1952 | Ikiru | Fumio Yanoguchi |
| 1953 | Ugetsu | Iwao Ōtani |
| 1954 | Kono Hiroi Sora no Dokokani The Garden of Women Twenty-Four Eyes | Hisao Ōno |
| 1955 | Floating Clouds | Hisashi Shimonaga |
| 1956 | Shin Heike Monogatari Shin Heike Monogatari Yoshinaka o Meguru Sannin no Onna Zangiku monogatari Yoru no Kawa | Yukio Kaihara |
| 1957 | The Rice People Jun'ai Monogatari | Hirokazu Iwata |
| 1958 | Equinox Flower | Saburō Senoyoshi |
| 1959 | Saijo Kishitsu My Second Brother | Fumio Hashimoto |
| 1960 | Yakuza Sensei Ashita 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 Chieko Sekishun | Toshio Tanaka |
| 1968 | The Sands of Kurobe | Tetsuo Yasuda Kenichi Benitani |
| 1969 | The Love Suicides at Amijima | Hideo Nishizaki |
| 1970 | Men and War: Part I | Tsuneo Furuyama |
| 1971 | Inochi Bō ni Furō Silence The Ceremony | Hideo Nishizaki |
| 1972 | The Long Darkness Ongaku | Mutsutoshi Ōta |
| 1973 | Tsugaru Jongara Bushi | Takaya Sugiura |
| 1974 | Himiko | Hideo Nishizaki |
| 1975 | Matsuri no Junbi Dokkoi! Ningenbushi | Yukio Kubota |
| 1976 | Inugamike no Ichizoku | 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 Sonezaki Eijanaika | Shōtarō Yoshida |
| 1982 | Mikan no Taikyoku | Fumio Hashimoto 呂慶昌 |
| 1983 | The Ballad of Narayama | Kenichi Benitani |
| 1984 | Shanghai Rhapsody | Kazuhisa Takahashi |
| 1985 | Sorekara Love Letter Early Spring Story Tampopo | 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 | Pekin no Suika | Masatoshi Yokomizo Shōhei Hayashi |
| 1990 | The Sting of Death Childhood Days | Hideo Nishizaki |
| 1991 | A Scene at the Sea | Senji Horiuchi |
| 1992 | Original Sin | Tsutomu Honda |
| 1993 | Bloom in the Moonlight | Yoshio Horiike Manabu Kakuhata |
| 1993 | Byōin de Shinu to Iukoto | Yasuo Hashimoto |
| 1994 | Like a Rolling Stone Tokarefu | Kiyoshi Kakizawa |
| 1995 | Sharaku Kinkyū Yobidashi Emergency Call | Tetsuo Segawa |
| 1996 | Nemuru Otoko | Sōichi Inoue |
| 1996 | A Class to Remember 2 | Isao Suzuki |
| 1997 | Mi mo Kokoro mo | Kōichi Hayashi |
| 1998 | Give It All | Hiromichi Kōri |
| 1999 | Osaka Story Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris | Yasuo Hashimoto |
| 2000 | Face | Fumio Hashimoto |
| 2001 | Onmyoji | Osamu Onodera Kiyoshi Kakizawa |
| 2002 | The Twilight Samurai | Kazumi Kishida |
| 2003 | Hotel Hibiscus Get Up! | Mitsugu Shiratori |
| 2004 | Nobody Knows | Yutaka Tsurumaki |
| 2005 | Itsuka dokusho suruhi | Masatoshi Yokomizo |
| 2006 | Hula Girls Sway | Mitsugu Shiratori |
| 2006 | 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 | A 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 |