Yukiko Mishima
Yukiko Mishima is a Japanese film director born 1969 4 22 in Kita-ku, Osaka. Her first feature film, Shisei: Nihohi tsuki no gotoku, based on the Jun'ichirō Tanizaki story "The Tatooer", was released in 2009. She received best director from the Hochi Film Award in 2017 for Dear Etranger, and Special Grand Prix of the Jury award at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Yukiko Mishima

Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · Mishima Yukiko from "Night's Tightrope" at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2016 · CC BY 2.0
- Name
- Yukiko Mishima
- Born
- 22 April 1969
- Birthplace
- Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director
- Awards
- Hochi Film Award, best director, 2017
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Shape of Red, an adaptation of Rio Shimamoto's 2014 novel Reddo, was released in 2020. She is a graduate of Kobe College.
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• Name — Yukiko Mishima • Native Name — 三島有紀子 • Born — 22 April 1969 • Birthplace — Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan • Occupation — Film director • Awards — Hochi Film Award, best director, 2017 • Website — https: www.yukikomishima.com
Filmography
Filmography
• As director • Shisei: Nihohi tsuki no gotoku (2009) • Bread of Happiness (2012) • A Drop of the Grapevine (2014) • A Stitch of Life (2015) • Night's Tightrope (2016) • Dear Etranger (2017) • The Antique: Secret of the Old Books (2018) • Shape of Red (2020) • Voice (2024) • Male Friends (2026) • Screenwriter • 破れたハートを売り物に Kowareta Heart wo Urimono ni / Broken Hearts for Sale (2015)
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- 1.三島有紀子 Profile(公式より). February 10, 2015. PIA Kansai. PIA Corporation. Tokyo.
- 2.映画監督(神戸女学院大学卒業)三島有紀子さんに聞く. Kobe Shinbun. 2018.
- 3.Dear Etranger: When the family drama gets real. August 30, 2017. Mark Schilling. The Japan Times.
- 4.【報知映画賞】2人目の女性の監督賞に「震えが止まらない」三島有紀子監督. 2017-11-29. www.hochi.co.jp. 20171205141632.
- 5.'Shape of Red' shows what Japanese women really want. Kaori Shoji. The Japan Times. February 14, 2020.
- 6.Dear Etranger. Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris.
- 7.Hōchi Film Awards.
- 8.Palmarès du 41e Festival des films du monde de Montréal - 2017. www.ffm-montreal.org. 20190814055533.
- 9.山路ふみ子映画賞 過去の受賞者一覧表です. www.yamaji-fumiko.org.
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