Name Kuniko Mukoda Died August 22, 1981, Taiwan | Role Screenwriter Movies Like Asura | |
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Books Ashura no Gotoku, Chichi no Wabijo, A Deck of Memories, The name of the flower Similar People Yoshimitsu Morita, Tomomi Tsutsui, Kaoru Yachigusa, Eri Fukatsu, Shinobu Otake | ||
Kuniko Mukōda (向田 邦子, Mukōda Kuniko, November 28, 1929 - August 22, 1981) was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She was also awarded the Naoki Prize for popular literature for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya" (1980).
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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
Some of her short stories are:
References
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