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Aliases: 高山 由紀子 , たかやま ゆきこ , 髙山由紀子

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

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Movie Involvements: 12

TV Involvements: 2


Most Famous Work

Biography

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, her 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". 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

Most Famous Work

Godzilla vs. Mothra
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7

Godzilla vs. Mothra

(1992) Story
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Average
7

Terror of Mechagodzilla

(1975) Screenplay
A Dog of Flanders
Average
7

A Dog of Flanders

(1975) Writer
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
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6
The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma
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6
Gassan
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0

Gassan

(1979) Writer
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
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1

Kamigata Kugaizoshi

(1991) Screenplay
After the Wind Has Gone
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3

After the Wind Has Gone

(1996) Screenplay

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