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Ono Yasuko
- Profile
- She was born in Azabu, Tokyo, in 1928. She graduated from Tokyo Prefectural Daisan Girls’ High School. She studied under Jūrō Miyoshi. After moving between various jobs, her scripts for a children’s theater troupe earned the acclaim of Shunjirō Aoe, leading her to begin writing for children’s programs. From 1962, she wrote scripts for television dramas on various broadcasting stations. She maintained an especially close relationship with Fuji TV, where she demonstrated her versatility by collaborating with the director Hideo Gosha on period dramas, the director Tarō Okada on melodramas, and the director Tokihisa Morikawa on socially conscious dramas. n addition to scripting numerous NHK Taiga dramas and adaptations of Seichō Matsumoto’s works, she also cultivated close ties with China. She won the Golden Rooster Awards in China for the Japanese-Chinese co-production film Mikan no Taikyoku (The Go Masters). She also gained recognition for the first Japanese-Chinese co-productions Sono Hito no Na wo Shirazu (I Don’t Know His Name) and Nagarete Yamazu (Flowing Never Stops), as well as Aoki okami (The Blue Wolf), which was filmed on a grand scale on location in Mongolia. She won the Grand Prize at the National Arts Festival for Akai Hana (Red Flower) and Amagi-goe (Cross the Amagi Pass), the Japan Academy Film Prize for Excellent Screenplay, and the Society of Japanese Women in Radio and Television’s Award for the film Izakaya Chōji. She was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal in 1997. She died in 2011 at the age of 82.
- Masterpieces
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傷だらけの天使 港町に男涙のブルースを
遠い接近
紅い花
天城越え
ザ・商社
炎熱商人