Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

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| name = Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay

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| awarded_for = Best screenplay of the year

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| country = Japan

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| year = 1946

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The Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay is a film award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.{{cite news |url=http://mainichi.jp/enta/cinema/mfa/etc/history/|title=コンクールの歴史|trans-title=History of Mainichi Film Award|accessdate=2015-04-21|publisher=The Mainichi Newspapers|language=Japanese}}{{cite news |url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001002/|title=Mainichi Film Concours|accessdate=2015-04-21|publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.|language=Japanese}}