The Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Performance is a

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given at the

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s. In 2024, the

Mainichi Film Awards The are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by '' Mainichi Shimbun'' (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of ...

announced that the four acting categories would be retired and replaced with two

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categories, with both Best Supporting Male and Best Supporting Female merging into the Best Supporting Performance category.

Award Winners

References

Supporting Performance Lists of films by award {{film-award-stub