Director

Yukiko Takayama

Writing

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 238285

IMDb ID: nm0847448

Known for: Writing

Born: April 4, 1945

Died: June 2, 2023

Age: 78

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1975 - 2011

Years active: 37

Average TMDB rating: 6.85

Wikidata: Q11669406

Also known as

高山由紀子 • たかやまゆきこ • 髙山由紀子 • Takayama Yukiko • Yuhiko Takayama • Yukiku Takayama

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Director (1)Screenplay (7)Writer (4)Story (1)

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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