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Yukiko Takayama
Tokyo, Japan
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…
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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
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2011
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
Movie Novel
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2010
If Blessed
Movie Writer
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2004
Women Make Films
Movie Self
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1996
After the Wind Has Gone
Movie Director
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1994
Otoko Tomodachi
Movie Writer
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1993
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
Movie Screenplay
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1992
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Movie Story
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1992
Anata ga koko ni itehoshii
Movie Writer
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1991
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
Movie Screenplay
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1988
Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa
Movie Screenplay
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1987
Trinacria: Porsche 959
Movie Screenplay
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1985
国東物語
Movie Screenplay
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1982
The Legend of Sayo
Movie Screenplay
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1979
Gassan
Movie Writer
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1977
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
TV show Writer
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1977
Monsters of the Lost Continent
Movie Screenplay
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1975
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Movie Screenplay
