Yukiko Mishima

Japanese film director

Yukiko Mishima
三島有紀子
Yukiko Mishima in 2016
Born	(1969-04-22) April 22, 1969 (age 55) Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Film director
Awards	Hochi Film Award, best director, 2017
Website	www.yukikomishima.com

Yukiko Mishima (Japanese: 三島有紀子) is a Japanese film director born (1969-04-22)April 22, 1969^[1]^[2]^[3] 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.^[4] She received best director from the Hochi Film Award in 2017 for Dear Etranger,^[3] and Special Grand Prix of the Jury award at the Montreal World Film Festival.^[5] Shape of Red, an adaptation of Rio Shimamoto's 2014 novel Reddo, was released in 2020.^[5]

She is a graduate of Kobe College.^[2]

Filmography

As director

Shisei: Nihohi tsuki no gotoku (2009)
しあわせのパン Shiawase no pan / Bread of Happiness (2012)
ぶどうのなみだ Budô no namida / A Drop of the Grapevine (2014)
繕い裁つ人 Tsukuroi Tatsu Hito / A Stitch of Life (2015)
少女 Shôjo / Night's Tightrope (2016)
Dear Etranger (2017)
Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō / The Antique: Secret of the Old Books (2018)
Shape of Red (2020)
Voice (2024)^[6]

Screenwriter

破れたハートを売り物に Kowareta Heart wo Urimono ni / Broken Hearts for Sale (2015)

References

^ "三島有紀子 Profile(公式より)" [Yukiko Mishima profile (from official)]. PIA Kansai (in Japanese). Tokyo: PIA Corporation. February 10, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "映画監督（神戸女学院大学卒業）三島有紀子さんに聞く" [Interview with film director Yukiko Mishima (graduated from Kobe College)]. Kobe Shimbun (in Japanese).
^ ^a ^b "【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" ['Hochi Film Award': Yukiko Mishima is the second woman to win the director's award.]. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). 2017-11-29. Archived from the original on 2017-12-05.
^ Mark Schilling (August 30, 2017). "Dear Etranger: When the family drama gets real". Japan Times.
^ ^a ^b Kaori Shoji (February 14, 2020). "'Shape of Red' shows what Japanese women really want". Japan Times.
^ "Voice". Free Stone Productions. Retrieved May 3, 2023.