Writing
Community Rating
4.5
TMDB estimate
Born
April 4, 1945
Died
June 2, 2023 (age 78)
Born in
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

The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
as Screenplay, Novel
2011

If Blessed
as Writer
2010

Women Make Films
as Self
2004

After the Wind Has Gone
as Director, Screenplay
1996

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
as Screenplay
1993

Godzilla vs. Mothra
as Story
1992

Anata ga koko ni itehoshii
as Writer
1992

Kamigata Kugaizoshi
as Screenplay
1991

Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa
as Screenplay
1988

Trinacria: Porsche 959
as Screenplay, Story
1987

国東物語
as Screenplay
1985

Gassan
as Writer
1979

Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
as Writer
1977

Terror of Mechagodzilla
as Screenplay, Story
1975