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Yukiko Takayama
Writing · 1945–2023 · Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Yukiko Takayama (高山 由紀子 (たかやま ゆきこ) (Takayama Yukiko), April 4, 1945, Tokyo, Japan - June 2, 2023, Tokyo, Japan) was 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 Ishirō Honda, and the screenwriter debuted in "Mechagodzilla's Counterattack" (known internationally as "Terror 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". From Wikipedia (ja), the free encyclopedia
Known for

Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
Writer

Godzilla vs. Mothra
Story

After the Wind Has Gone
Director

Anata ga koko ni itehoshii
Writer

Terror of Mechagodzilla
Screenplay

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
Screenplay

Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa
Screenplay

Women Make Films
Self

Kamigata Kugaizoshi
Screenplay

If Blessed
Writer
Filmography
- 2011The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year EnigmaNovel
- 2010If BlessedWriter
- 2004Women Make FilmsSelf
- 1996After the Wind Has GoneDirector
- 1994Otoko TomodachiWriter
- 1993Koya Choken-bou oboegakiScreenplay
- 1992Godzilla vs. MothraStory
- 1992Anata ga koko ni itehoshiiWriter
- 1991Kamigata KugaizoshiScreenplay
- 1988Ooku: Empress of the TokugawaScreenplay
- 1987Trinacria: Porsche 959Screenplay
- 1985国東物語Screenplay
- 1979GassanWriter
- 1977Monarch: The Big Bear of TallacWriter
- 1975Terror of MechagodzillaScreenplay
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