Eriko Kitagawa
Eriko Kitagawa is a Japanese screenwriter and film director. She is best known for writing Japanese [television drama]s, notably Long Vacation, Beautiful [Life (2000 TV series)|Beautiful Life], Sora Kara [Furu Ichioku no Hoshi], and Orange Days.
In 2009, Kitagawa made her directorial debut in the coming-of-age film Halfway, which she also wrote and co-edited. She then wrote and directed the 2012 film I Have to Buy New Shoes, a contemporary romantic comedy set in Paris. Both films were produced by her friend Shunji Iwai, and Kitagawa appeared in his 2011 documentary Friends after 3.11, which explores the aftermath of the 2011 [Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami].
Filmography
- ''I Have to Buy New Shoes''
Television series
- Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari
- *すみません、握手してください
- *隣の声
- *午前3時のノック
- *もう一人の花嫁
- *昔みたい
- *佐藤・求む
- *「三日間だけのエース
- *未来の思い出
- *大蒜（にんにく）
- *つまらない男
- *伝言板
- *ズンドコベロンチョ
- *忘れられたメス
- Panasonic Special もっと、ときめきを －ふたりまでの距離－
- ぼくが医者をやめた理由
- Sugao no Mama de
- Sono Toki, Heart wa Nusumareta
- Chance!
- Asunaro Hakusho
- Kimi to Ita Natsu
- Aishiteiru to Itte Kure
- Long Vacation
- Saigo no Koi
- Over Time
- Beautiful Life
- Love Story
- Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi
- Orange Days
- Tatta Hitotsu no Koi
- Heaven's Postman
- Sunao ni Narenakute
- Okaasan no Saigo no Ichinichi
- Irodori Himura
- ''Half Blue Sky''
Theater
- 彼女の言うことには。
Awards
- 1995 6th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter
- 1996 9th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter
- 2000 24th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter
- 2002 33rd Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter
- 2004 41st Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Screenwriter