Known For
Writing
Born
Apr 04, 1945
Died
Jun 02, 2023
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Credits
17 titles
Yukiko Takayama
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
Filmography
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
Novel
If Blessed
Writer
Women Make Films
Self
After the Wind Has Gone
Director
Otoko Tomodachi
Writer
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
Screenplay
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Story
Anata ga koko ni itehoshii
Writer
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
Screenplay
Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa
Screenplay
Trinacria: Porsche 959
Screenplay
国東物語
Screenplay
The Legend of Sayo
Screenplay
Gassan
Writer
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
Writer
Monsters of the Lost Continent
Screenplay
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Screenplay