Yukiko Takayama
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- April 4, 1945, Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- June 2, 2023
- Movies
- 15
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").
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2004 | Women Make Films | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2011 | The Tale of Genji: A Thousand Year Enigma | Screenplay |
| 2010 | If Blessed | Writer |
| 1996 | After the Wind Has Gone | Director, Screenplay |
| 1994 | Otoko Tomodachi | Writer |
| 1993 | Koya Choken-bou oboegaki | Screenplay |
| 1992 | Anata ga koko ni itehoshii | Writer |
| 1991 | Kamigata Kugaizoshi | Screenplay |
| 1988 | Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa | Screenplay |
| 1987 | Trinacria: Porsche 959 | Screenplay |
| 1985 | 国東物語 | Screenplay |
| 1982 | The Legend of Sayo | Screenplay |
| 1979 | Gassan | Writer |
| 1977 | Monsters of the Lost Continent | Screenplay |
| 1975 | Terror of Mechagodzilla | Screenplay |
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