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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

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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