This award covers two early plays by Miyamoto Ken. They render anxieties about political systems and mechanized organization through dialogue and theatrical pressure, showing the political and experimental energy of postwar drama.

The plays reexamine postwar institutions and human agency within a taut theatrical space.

This award recognizes two plays by Yagi Shuichiro. Through settings suggestive of docks and factories, the works turn labor, poverty, and the pressure of modernization into theatrical tension.

The plays make the voices of people at work resonate as urgent dramatic conflict.