About

Known credits:
15
Birthday:
1945-04-04
Place of birth:
Tokyo, Japan
Website:
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Yukiko Takayama

Overview

Yukiko Takayama (高山 由紀子（たかやま ゆきこ), April 4, 1945 - Tokyo) is a screenwriter and film director of Japan.

The eldest daughter of Japanese painter Takayama Tatsuo. After graduating from Faculty of Literature, Keio University, studying movie screenplay.

In 1975, her own work was adopted as a competition screening for a new Godzilla movie screenwriter for scenario school students by Honda Inoshiro, and the screenwriter debuted in "counterattack of Mechagodzilla".

She is good at a scenario that struck female psychology, she is one of the female screenwriters indispensable for criminal dramas, mysteries, and historical dramas.

The novel "Tale of Genji Monogatari, Prince of Sorrow" published in 2010 was made into a movie in 2011 titled "The Tales of Genji Monogatari Mystery".

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Known for

Directing
1996 After the Wind Has Gone Directing Director 59
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Writing
2011 The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma Writing Novel 59
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2011 The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma Writing Screenplay 59
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2010 If Blessed Writing Writer N/A
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2010 If Blessed Writing Screenplay N/A
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1996 After the Wind Has Gone Writing Screenplay 59
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1993 Koya Choken-bou oboegaki Writing Screenplay N/A
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1992 Godzilla vs. Mothra Writing Story 61
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1992 Anata ga koko ni itehoshii Writing Writer N/A
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1991 Kamigata Kugaizoshi Writing Screenplay 59
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1988 Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa Writing Screenplay 58
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1979 Gassan Writing Writer N/A
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1977 Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac Writing Writer 68
Fair
1975 Terror of Mechagodzilla Writing Screenplay 61
Fair
1975 A Dog of Flanders Writing Writer 70
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