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Mizuki Yoko
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- She was born in Kyobashi, Tokyo, in 1910. In 1928, she enrolled in the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women’s University; three years later, she transferred to the Department of Theater in Faculty of Literature at Bunka Gakuin University. She attended the Proletarian Theater Institute at Tsukiji Shō Gekijō theater and joined the Tokyo Sayoku Gekijō (a left-wing theater troupe in Tokyo). She began writing scripts for the stage at the age of 24 and moved into radio dramas during the war. In 1938, she married Senkichi Taniguchi, then an assistant director at Toho, but she divorced the following year. After the war, she expanded into film at the encouragement of her Russian teacher, the screenwriter Toshio Yasumi. She made her screenwriting debut with Onna no Isshō (A Woman’s Life) in 1949. From then on, she created many adaptations of literary works, written from a female perspective. She was active during the golden age of cinema, and she wrote screenplays for masterpieces, such as Ukigumo (Floating Clouds), based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi and directed by Mikio Naruse. She later wrote many scripts for television, including the NHK Taiga historical drama Ryōma ga Yuku (Ryoma Goes). She won the Grand Prize at the National Arts Festival for the 1974 drama Tomoshibi no Hashi (Bridge of Light) and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay for the 1959 film Kiku and Isamu. In 1953, she received the inaugural Kikuchi Kan Prize. She was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal in 1981 and the Order of the Precious Crown, Wistaria, Fourth Class in 1987. She died in 2003 at the age of 93.
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