Director

Satoko Okudera

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 36

TMDB ID: 81721

IMDb ID: nm0645766

Known for: Writing

Born: February 16, 1966

Age: 60

Place of birth: Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1993 - 2025

Years active: 33

Average TMDB rating: 7.31

Wikidata: Q2256932

Also known as

Sadoko Okuji • 奥寺佐渡子 • Okudera Satoko

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Screenplay (28)Writer (7)Screenstory (1)

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Biography

Satoko Okudera (奥寺佐渡子 Okudera Satoko, born 1966 in Iwate Prefecture) is a Japanese screenwriter. She is known for her screenplays in both the live-action and anime mediums. Her 1995 screenplay for Gakkō no kaidan was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize. She is best known for her collaborations with anime director Mamoru Hosoda. A graduate of the Literature Department of Tokai University in Tokyo, Okudera did not originally consider a career in screenwriting. Instead, she worked for an oil company until 1991, after which she quit her job and became a full-time writer. After over a decade of work in live-action film and television, Okudera was offered her first animation project: adapting Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel Toki o Kakeru Shōjo for director Mamoru Hosoda. The resulting film, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, received worldwide acclaim and gave her international recognition upon its release in 2006. Okudera again collaborated with Hosoda on the 2009 film Summer Wars. At the 2009 Anime Festival Asia in Singapore, Hosoda revealed Okudera would be writing the script for his next project, Wolf Children. (Wikipedia)

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