Satoko Okudera

Okudera of the sat (sat 佐渡子 of 奥寺 Okudera, born in 1966 in Iwate Prefecture) is a Japanese screenwriter. She is known for her screenplays in both the live-action and anime in the medium. Gakkō no kaidan was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize in 1995 for Her screenplay. Best known for her collaborations with anime director Mamoru Hosoda She is. A graduate of Tokai University in Tokyo to the Department of Literature, 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 television and film, 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, and received worldwide acclaim upon its release in 2006 gave her international recognition. With Summer Wars Hosoda collaborated on the 2009 film Okudera again. At the Anime Festival Asia 2009 in Singapore, revealed his next project would be writing the script for Okudera Hosoda, Wolf Children.