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Yoko Mizuki (水木 洋子, Mizuki Yōko, 26 August 1910 – 8 April 2003) was a Japanese screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, she later graduated from Bunka Gakuin and began writing screenplays to support her family after her father died.
Feb 7, 2023 · Playwright and screenwriter Yoko Mizuki wrote that her purpose in creating the character of Kiku in the film “Kiku and Isamu” was to challenge “shitty realism”. Known for her writings on social justice and women’s rights, Mizuki actively sought to avoid perpetuating victimized portrayals of mixed-race children during the casting process.
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Yôko Mizuki was born on 25 August 1910 in Tokyo, Japan. She was a writer, known for Kwaidan (1964), Kiku to Isamu (1959) and Konki (1961). She was married to Senkichi Taniguchi. She died on 8 April 2003 in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan.
- Writer
- August 25, 1910
- Yôko Mizuki
- April 8, 2003
Feb 7, 2023 · Yoko Mizuki, who is famous as one of the representative screenwriters of Japanese cinema, is active in two lines: literary films by Mikio Naruse and others, and social dramas with Tadashi Imai.
Nov 8, 2022 · Screenwriter Yoko Mizuki, known for her work with Mikio Naruse on Floating Clouds (1955) and with Masaki Kobayashi on Kwaidan (1965), adapted the novel by Aya Koda. Her Brother “cools the typically overheated juvenile delinquent drama into surely the most genteel example of that genre ever made,” wrote Bruce Bennett for Film Comment in 2019.
Apr 8, 2003 · Japanese screenwriter.
