Yukiko Takayama
Writing

Yukiko Takayama

Born 1945-04-04 · Tokyo, Japan

Yukiko Takayama (高山 由紀子(たかやま ゆきこ), April 4, 1945 - Tokyo) is 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, his own work was adopted as a competition screening for a new Godzilla movie screenwriter for scenario school students by Honda Inoshiro, and the screenwriter debuted in "counterattack of Mechagodzilla". He is good at a scenario that struck female psychology, he 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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Known for

Godzilla vs. Mothra★ 6.8Viewing moment
Godzilla vs. Mothra
1992
Terror of Mechagodzilla★ 7Viewing moment
Terror of Mechagodzilla
1975
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma★ 6.3Viewing moment
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
2011
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac★ 6.4Viewing moment
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
1977 · Series
After the Wind Has Gone★ 3Viewing moment
After the Wind Has Gone
1996
Kamigata Kugaizoshi★ 1Viewing moment
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
1991
If BlessedViewing moment
If Blessed
2010
Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa★ 2Viewing moment
Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa
1988
GassanViewing moment
Gassan
1979

Frequent collaborators