Yukiko Mishima ( ja, 三島有紀子) is a Japanese film director born in Kita-ku, Osaka. Her first feature film, ''Shisei: Nihohi tsuki no gotoku'', based on the Jun'ichirō Tanizaki story "The Tatooer", was released in 2009. She received best director from the

Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ...

in 2017 for ''Dear Etranger'', and Special Grand Prix of the Jury award at the

Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Interna ...

. ''Shape of Red'', an adaptation of

Rio Shimamoto is a Japanese writer. She has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Noma Literary New Face Prize and the Naoki Prize, and her work has been adapted for film. Biography Shimamoto was born in 1983 in Tokyo, Japan. She made her literary debu ...

's 2014 novel ''Reddo'', was released in 2020. She is a graduate of Kobe College.

Filmography

;As director *''Shisei: Nihohi tsuki no gotoku'' (2009) * しあわせのパン ''Shiawase no pan'' / ''Bread of Happiness'' (2012) *ぶどうのなみだ ''Budô no namida'' / ''A Drop of the Grapevine'' (2014) * 繕い裁つ人 ''Tsukuroi Tatsu Hito'' / ''A Stitch of Life'' (2015) * 少女 ''Shôjo'' / ''Night's Tightrope'' (2016) *幼な子われらに生まれ ''Osanago warera ni umare'' / ''Dear Etranger'' (2017) *''Biblia Koshodô no Jiken Techô'' / ''The Antique: Secret of the Old Books'' (2018) *映画 ''Shape of Red'' (2020) ;Screenwriter *破れたハートを売り物に ''Kowareta Heart wo Urimono ni'' / ''Broken Hearts for Sale'' (2015)

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* (in Japanese) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mishima, Yukiko 1969 births Living people Japanese film directors People from Osaka Japanese women film directors Japanese screenwriters Japanese women screenwriters

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