Kuniko Mukōda
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was a Japanese TV
screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd Naoki Prize (1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya."


Life

Mukōda was born in
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, 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), 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 when it crashed in
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.


Works

Mukōda is the author of the novel ' which she adapted from her screenplay of the same name. The trio of stories for which she was awarded the Naoki prize were later published in the collection ''Omoide toranpu''. Other short stories by Mukōda include: *Small Change *I Doubt It *Manhattan *Beef Shoulder *The Fake Egg *Triangular Chop *Mr. Carp *Ears *Half-Moon *The Window *Meeting Again * Ashura no Gotoku (aired as a 2-part TV series in 1979. A 7-episode remake directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda was aired in January 2025, titled Asura)


References


Further reading

*"Meeting Again" 再会 (Saikai) in '' Tokyo stories: a literary stroll'', Lawrence Rogers (ed.), University of California Press, 2002


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1929 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Japanese novelists Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Taiwan Japanese television writers Japanese women television writers Japanese women short story writers People from Setagaya Writers from Tokyo Naoki Prize winners 20th-century Japanese short story writers 20th-century Japanese essayists 20th-century Japanese women writers 20th-century Japanese screenwriters Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1981 {{japan-writer-stub