was a Japanese TV
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd
Naoki Prize
The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for the ...
(1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya."
Life
Mukōda was born in
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
, and moved around Japan in her early life due to her father's job. After she graduated from Jissen Women's College (
Jissen Women's University
is a Japanese private women's college with its headquarters in 4-1-1 Ōsakaue, Hino, Tokyo, Japan. The school was founded by poet and educator Utako Shimoda in 1899. It was chartered as a university in 1949. Its University abbreviations are ...
), she got a job at Ondori Company, a film publicity company, in 1952. In 1960, she left the company and became a screenwriter and radiowriter. On August 22, 1981, she died on
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103
Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 was a flight from Taiwan Taipei Songshan Airport to Kaohsiung International Airport that crashed on 22 August 1981, killing all 110 people on board. The Boeing 737-222 aircraft disintegrated in midair and cras ...
when it crashed in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
.
Works
Some of her short stories are:
*The Name of The Flower
*Small Change
*I Doubt It
*The Otter
*Manhattan
*Beef Shoulder
*The Doghouse
*The Fake Egg
*Triangular Chop
*Mr. Carp
*Ears
*Half-Moon
*The Window
*Meeting Again
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Ashura no Gotoku
References
Further reading
*"Meeting Again" 再会 (Saikai) in ''
Tokyo stories: a literary stroll'', Lawrence Rogers (ed.), University of California Press, 2002
External links
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Kuniko Mukoda's graveProminent people of Minato City(Kuniko Mukoda)
1929 births
1981 deaths
Japanese essayists
20th-century Japanese novelists
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Taiwan
Japanese television writers
Japanese women short story writers
Writers from Tokyo
Naoki Prize winners
20th-century Japanese short story writers
20th-century essayists
20th-century women writers
Women television writers
20th-century Japanese screenwriters
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