Yuki Fujimoto

Biography

Fujimoto Yuki is a Japanese screenwriter from Hyogo prefecture, Itami city. After working on stage comedy scripts, she debuted with a screenplay "Oni no Okui" on Fuji TV in 1999. In 2016 she was awarded the 34th Mukda Kuniko Prize by NHK for a drama "Chikemo" which depicts the life of Chikamatsu Monzaemon. It was the first prize winning as a screenplay of a historical drama, and it was elected by unanimity among the selection committee, based on the criticism that "she has the power of origina…