Shimizu Yukako

Shimizu Yukako was born in Tokyo. She debuted as a screenwriter in 2000. She is currently a member of the Japan Writer Association. In 2017, she won the 93rd The Television Drama Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Best Work as well as the 8th Confidence Drama Screenplay Award for her work "Reverse".

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Name Shimizu Yukako

Nationality Japanese

Gender Female

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Type Japanese

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The story begins with Shuji, a high school student in Hokkaido, walking up to an observatory and reminiscing about his girlfriend, Chise. He finds her exchange diaries that she purposefully left behind. The whole story is narrated by him through flashbacks while reading Chise's diary. Chise, a fello...

Chiaki's father suddenly dies. After his death, Chiaki and her mother, Tsukasa, move to Popura Apartment. The apartment building is owned by an old woman. The old woman tells Chiaki that she is able to send letters to dead people. Chiaki believes her and writes a letter to her father in Heaven. She...

Focuses on two brothers who lost their parents when they were younger. The older brother works exhaustingly hard to earn enough money to send his younger brother to college. One day the older brother breaks into a house to get money for tuition and he accidentally kills an old woman. From here the y...

Drama

All hell breaks loose at a local high school when a very effete men’s tumbling and rhythmic gymnastics club is suddenly joined by a gang of the school’s “baddest” boys, and proceed to make believers out of everybody around them. Casting a spotlight on the Japanese-born sport of men’s rhythmic gymnas...

Hasebe Sosuke is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Japanese edition of the fashion magazine, 'The Most' a worldwide publication. He is an unfriendly and cold rationalist transferred from New York to complete a mission. When young, he was overweight and often bullied. Now a handsome elite, he aims to...

In 2006, Sanada Rio lived in a country village where a missing person case took place. Rio later studied in the pharmacy department at a university in Tokyo. Now, at the age of 30, Rio takes the CEO position at Sanada Wellness, which is a subsidiary of Sanada Holdings. Rio’s mother runs Sanada Holdi...

Mizuki Konno is a high school girl. It is part of the most powerful group in the class, led by Sakura Himezawa, which allows him to have a peaceful school life. One day, on the way to a school exchange event, a school bus driver loses consciousness due to overwork. The bus falls from a cliff.The maj...

Salaryman Fukase Kazuhisa graduated from a famous university but his life is very ordinary and unremarkable. His only hobby – if it can be called that – is drinking coffee. Coffee, in fact, leads him to Mihoko Ochi, who becomes his girlfriend. Then one day, Mihoko receives a mysterious letter which...

The drama is based on the best selling same-titled novel Minato Kanae, and is about two families that reside in the same upscale neighborhood. Amongst all the beautiful homes lined up in a row, there is a small house that belongs to the Endo family. Even though it is small, but it is a dream come tr...

Higashiyama Yui works as a director at Net Heroes, a web production company. Due to her workaholic father and bad experiences in the past, she loathes working overtime. Even 2 years ago, she broke off her engagement to Taneda Kotaro because he was a workaholic. At her job, Higashiyama Yui always le...

Aino Hingo used to work as an associate professor of ethnology. He now works as the director of a matchmaking agency. His assistant is Sister Elizabeth. The high entrance fee at the matchmaking agency is two million yen, but the matchmaking agency has a 100% success rating for their clients getting...

"Poison Daughter” & “Holy Mother” Yumika is an actress. Since she was a child, she has had to endure her mother Yoshika controlling her life. Yoshika is a “poison mother” to Yumika and Yumika cannot tolerate her mother anymore. Yumika appears on a talk show and criticizes her mother. Her critic...

In 1909, a long-awaited baby boy was born to a family which has run a dry goods store for generations in Fukushima Prefecture. He would later become the talented composer Koyama Yuichi who wrote many famous songs. Although Yuichi was brought up as the heir of the business, he was rather dreamy and c...

Ono has been an organ transplant coordinator for several years. He and his senior, fellow coordinator Kuramoto, cannot hide the conflicting struggles of medical transplants after a revision of the organ donation law. Pressured by the Ministry of Health for cases of successful transplants, the direct...

47-year-old Aso Toko is asked by her ex-husband Masaoka Ryosuke to take their 17-year-old daughter Miu under her care because he is leaving for an overseas assignment in London. Toko who had wanted to take custody of her daughter, has her long-cherished wish fulfilled and her old friend Suga Yohei i...

Makoto is a promising oarsman at a University regatta team. One day, he loses his best friend by a tragic accident which he believes and blames himself for the very cause. Although he once leaves the team out of tremendous sense of responsibility, he finally decides to return by the encouragement of...

Mayako Mizukoshi is a 32-years-old housewife and she has been married for 5 years. Mayako is not happy with her marriage. Her husband doesn't look at her as a woman. Music critic Michihiko Kudo appears in front of her. He approaches Mayako and they fall into a forbidden love. ~~ Adapted from the no...

A dad who is popular with the ladies and a mom that continues to love the dad without any doubt like a young girl. The four sisters that the unbelievably ironclad husband and wife raised includes, an unmarried and divorced, a marriage hunter, a boyfriend-less, and one that has no luck with men. Out...

31-year-old Iwasaki Urara became a lawyer and did a disservice to client because of her own mistake in her first court case. This traumatised her and she gave up being a lawyer. Fretting that she isn’t cut out to be a lawyer, Urara ekes out a living by working part time. She is saddled with a debt o...

School teacher Momo is forced to change jobs when her mother dies, taking over the family business of Hotel Eileen. Episodic adventures that ensue in the style of the American drama HOTEL, as a series of idiosyncratic guests arrive with stories to be told, while Momo simultaneously tries to fight of...

The 56-year-old mother-in-law Misako Yoneda still acts like the daughter-in-law that married into the household. One day, her son announces his intention to marry Natsuko Fujisaki, 35 years of age, who suddenly comes into the home of this well-established rice cracker shop through her marriage. This...

Drama Special

Based on the true story of a girl suffering from spinal muscular atrophy. Because of the disease, she eventually looses the ability to walk. Her life then turns around with the help of a guide dog named Musashi.

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