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) (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

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa poster
2.7

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Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa

1988

Terror of Mechagodzilla poster
6.8

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.

Terror of Mechagodzilla

1975

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Koya Choken-bou oboegaki

1993

After the Wind Has Gone poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

After the Wind Has Gone

1996

After the Wind Has Gone poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

After the Wind Has Gone

1996

Anata ga koko ni itehoshii poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Anata ga koko ni itehoshii

1992

Monsters of the Lost Continent poster
NR

Thousands of years ago, Mechagodzilla, a robotic monster, was driven into the sea by Godzilla, Earth's defender. Recently, a submarine was dispatched to locate Mechagodzilla's remains. Overpowered by humans from the Third Planet, the scholar Dr. Mafune is forced to control two monsters through experiments and inventions in order to conquer Earth. However, when Mechagodzilla is ordered to destroy a ship, a fierce battle ensues.

Monsters of the Lost Continent

1977

Kamigata Kugaizoshi poster
4.0

"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the three-corded shamisen for pilgrims visiting the sacred chapel of Ise.

Kamigata Kugaizoshi

1991

The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma poster
6.6

"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro is obsessed with Genji and eventually becomes a spirit. Yu Kao, who is from the lower class, give comfort to Genji's emotional wounds. Writer Murasaki Shikibu is jealous of Genji and is eventually ordered by Seime Abe to write a work ...

The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma

2011

If Blessed poster
NR

Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) and is also a regular in director Kawase Naomi's other works, this film portrays the pure love between a prisoner sentenced to death and the fiance of the man he killed, and was nominated to be in the section "Japanese Eyes" in the Tokyo International Film Festival. Jun (Kubota Masashi) receives the death penalty for a botched robbery that turned into murder and while in prison, he is visited by Kaoru (Ono), a Christian and the fiance of the man he killed. However, when her fiance was killed, he was secretly with another woman. Jun and Kaoru soon become attracted to one another and, using a bible, they start to communicate in secret.

If Blessed

2010

The Legend of Sayo poster
7.0

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for the legend of dead white horse. When her fiancé returns from war and visits her he comes across a white horse which he takes in. The man also does not see himself engaged anymore as his family has lost its wealth.

The Legend of Sayo

1982

Otoko Tomodachi poster
NR

Eriko, a 25-year-old office worker living in Tokyo, has become pregnant by her boyfriend, Ide, whom she doesn’t love all that deeply. Torn between her future and her lingering feelings for Uozumi, whom she dated in college, she travels to Shikoku—Uozumi’s hometown—with her best friend, Misato. Meanwhile, she also learns that Ide had gotten another woman pregnant at the same time, and that she chose to have an abortion…

Otoko Tomodachi

1994

国東物語 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

国東物語

1985

Trinacria: Porsche 959 poster
NR

A film director plans to make a film about a man who embarks on a journey to find a missing musician, who has disappeared after becoming obsessed with the sound of a Porsche engine.

Trinacria: Porsche 959

1987

Gassan poster
7.0

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.

Gassan

1979