
Person
Yukiko Takayama
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Apr 4, 1945
- Died
- Jun 2, 2023
- From
- 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 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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Women Make Films

Terror of Mechagodzilla

The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma

Godzilla vs. Mothra

Gassan

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki

Kamigata Kugaizoshi

After the Wind Has Gone

If Blessed

Anata ga koko ni itehoshii

Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa

Trinacria: Porsche 959

国東物語

Otoko Tomodachi

The Legend of Sayo

Monsters of the Lost Continent

Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac