Kuniko Mukōda

was a Japanese TV screenwriter. 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 Tokyo, 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 Taiwan.

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

External links

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Kuniko Mukoda's graveProminent people of Minato City(Kuniko Mukoda)

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

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