Kuniko Mukouda’s Hidden Passions 20 Years After Her Death：Part 3

Focusing on Mukouda’s “blank year”

Kuniko Mukouda has produced numerous masterpieces depicting the lives of ordinary people, the pathos of the common people, family ties, and adult love. Her unique gaze, keen insight, and warm gaze continue to attract many fans.

Kuniko Mukouda’s Hidden Passions 20 Years After Her Death
This program, first broadcast in 2001, focuses on the “blank year” of Kuniko Mukouda, who died in 1981. Several letters to a man and his diary, which were discovered after her death by her family, reveal the days of Mukoda’s love and conflicts.

⭐Kuniko Mukouda⭐
Born in Tokyo in 1929. Graduated from Jissen Women’s Vocational School (now Jissen Women’s University). She wrote many scripts for popular TV programs such as “Kantaro Terauchi’s Family” and “Asura no Gotoku”. In 1980, she won the Naoki Prize for “The Name of the Flower” and two other stories included in “Memory Cards”. She died in an airplane accident on August 22, 1981, while traveling in Taiwan.