was a Japanese TV screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She was also awarded the middle-brow Naoki Prize

Naoki Prize

The Naoki Prize is a Japanese literary award presented semiannually. The official name is Naoki Sanjugo Prize. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the Bungeishunjū magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo...

 for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya" (1980).

Life

Mukōda was born in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, 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

Jissen Women's University

is a private women's college in Hino, Tokyo, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded by poet and educator Utako Shimoda in 1899. It was chartered as a university in 1949.-External links:*...

), 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

Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103

Far East Air Transport Flight 103 , a Boeing 737-222, had just departed Taipei Songshan Airport for Kaohsiung when the aircraft broke apart in mid-air 14 minutes after take-off....

 when it crashed in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

.

Some of her short stories include:

• The Name of The Flower
• Small Change
• I Doubt It
• The Otter
• Manhattan
• Beef Shoulder
• The Doghouse
• The Fake Egg
• Triangular Chop
• Mr. Carp
• Ears
• Half-Moon
• The Window
• Meeting Again

Further reading

• "Meeting Again" 再会 (Saikai) in Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll, Lawrence Rogers (ed.), University of California Press, 2002

External links

• Kuniko Mukoda on IMDB.
• Kuniko Mukoda's grave