向田邦子

花ひらき、はな香る、花こぼれ、なほ薫る

Kuniko Mukōda (向田 邦子 Mukōda Kuniko^?, November 28, 1929 - August 22, 1981) was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She was also awarded the middle-brow Naoki Prize for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya" (1980).

Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 Further reading 4 External links

Life

Mukōda was born in Tokyo, 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), 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 when it crashed in Taiwan.
 1981年（昭和56年）8月22日、取材旅行中の台湾苗栗県三義郷で遠東航空機墜落事故にて死去。51歳没。

Works

Some of her

• 1983年（昭和58年）、向田の功績を記念して優れた脚本に対して与えられる「向田邦子賞」が創設された。
• 1998年（平成10年）、「ままや」閉店。
• 2008年（平成20年）、母・せい逝去。享年100

代表作 [編集]

• 『向田邦子全集』（全3巻、文藝春秋、1987年）
• 『向田邦子全集〈新版〉』（全11巻、別巻2巻、文藝春秋、2009年 - 2010年）
• 『向田邦子シナリオ集』（全6巻、岩波現代文庫、2009年）

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

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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
• Prominent people of Minato City(Kuniko Mukoca)

 

三義空難紀念碑（拍攝：劉梓潔）

「啊，真的有耶。」
三義往苑裡的線道山路上，從路邊只要爬幾階階梯就可抵達的中式涼亭，亭外有香爐，亭裡有塊碑，有張供桌，桌上擺了數個神像。這是一位傳奇才女作家的殞 落之地。我在碑上看到向田邦子四字時，脫口而出的竟是這幾個字。好像依著一張尋寶圖打開保險箱，看到裡面果然有個盒子，那樣地：啊，真的有耶。跟去巴 黎蒙馬特看楚浮墓，去京都法然院看谷崎潤一郎的感覺完全不一樣，是什麼，我也說不上來。
紀念邦子逝世三十周年。（文/劉梓潔）