Abstract: The subject of the research is the screen sound as a component of audiovisal image in Japanese cinematograph. The author of the article discovers some capabilities and other features of audio information that influence the process of formation of artistic time continuum of a screen piece. The fact that the sound has a temporal characteristic in cinematograph and appears in the real-time environment of a recipient makes it possible to search for global dependencies between screen sound as a phenomenon and aspect of time in a sound image. Being part of Japanese aesthetic system, modern Japanese cinematograph has its peculiarities which allows to examine these factors thoroughly. The present research is based on the phenomenological approach to sound as the phenomenon of cinematograph reality as well as concepts of traditional Japanese aesthetics. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author develops the system of dependencies between properties of a comprehensive sound solution of a piece of screen in terms of its connection with the chronotope. The given system of dependencies 'sound - artistic time continuum' has a universal nature and reveals new opportunities for audio expressivity in cinematograph.