was a Japanese novelist.
A native of Osaka, Yamasaki worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun from 1945 to 1959 after graduating from Kyoto Women's University in Japanese literature. She published her first story, Noren (1957), a story of a kelp trader, based on the experiences of her family's business. The following year, she won the Naoki Prize for her second novel Hana Noren, the story about the founder of an entertainment group. A major influence on her writings of that period was Yasushi Inoue, who was deputy head of the Mainichi Shimbun's cultural news desk.
Yamasaki wrote some stories based on actual events. For example, Futatsu no Sokoku is derived from the biography of a Japanese American David Akira Itami, and Shizumanu Taiyō is based on the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 accident. Several works of hers were featured in films and television dramas.
Main works DateTitleLive-action adaptationsNotes195719581959 Film: starring Chikage Awashima1960 TV: starring Mineko Yorozuya1962 TV: starring Mitsuko Mori1966 TV: starring Yōko Minamida1995 TV: starring Nobuko Miyamoto2025 TV: starring Keiko KitagawaAwarded the 39th Naoki Prize.19591960 Film: starring Ichikawa Raizō VIII1962 TV: starring Nakamura Senjaku II1972 TV: starring Masahiko Tsugawa19611961 Film: starring Machiko Kyō1962 TV: starring Yumeji Tsukioka1976 TV: starring Yoshiko Mita2017 TV: starring Nanako Matsushima19631963 Film: starring Ayako Wakao1963 TV: starring Nobuko Otowa1970 TV: starring Yuki Kawamura1975 TV: starring Mariko Okada1984 TV: starring Yoshiko Mita1991 TV: starring Miwa Takada1994 TV: starring Yūko Natori2005 TV: starring Ryōko Yonekura2021 TV: starring Rie Miyazawa and Shinobu Terajima19651966 Film: starring Jirō Tamiya1967 TV: starring Kei Satō1978 TV: starring Jirō Tamiya1990 TV: starring Hiroaki Murakami2003 TV: starring Toshiaki Karasawa2007 TV: starring Kim Myung-min (Korean version)2019 TV: starring Junichi Okada19731974 TV: starring Sō Yamamura and Yūzō Kayama1974 Film: starring Shin Saburi and Tatsuya Nakadai 2007 TV: starring Takuya Kimura and Kinya Kitaōji 2021 TV: starring Kiichi Nakai and Osamu Mukai19761976 Film: starring Tatsuya Nakadai1979 TV: starring Mikijirō Hira2009 TV: starring Toshiaki Karasawa19831984 TV: starring Matsumoto Kōshirō IX and Toshiyuki Nishida2019 TV: starring Shun Oguri19911995 TV: starring Tatsuya Nakadai and Takaya Kamikawa19992009 Film: starring Ken Watanabe2016 TV: starring Takaya Kamikawa20092012 TV: starring Masahiro Motoki
References
NHK obituary
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