
Yukiko Takayama
Known for
Writing
Born
April 4, 1945
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Died
June 2, 2023 (aged 78)
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...
Best known work
Filmography
2011
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year EnigmaScreenplay, Novel
2010
If BlessedWriter
2004
Women Make Filmsas Self
1996
After the Wind Has GoneDirector, Screenplay
1994
Otoko TomodachiWriter
1993
Koya Choken-bou oboegakiScreenplay
1992
Godzilla vs. MothraStory
1992
1991
Kamigata KugaizoshiScreenplay
1988
Ooku: Empress of the TokugawaScreenplay
1987
Trinacria: Porsche 959Screenplay, Story
1985
国東物語Screenplay
1982
The Legend of SayoScreenplay
1979
GassanWriter
1977
1977
Monsters of the Lost ContinentScreenplay
1975
Terror of MechagodzillaScreenplay, Story









