Background
Aoyagi graduated cum laude from Sophia University (Jyochi University) with a BA in Comparative Literature in 1995. Her writing career began for Fuji TV with her work on Kaiki Club (“Horror Club”), a horror series similar to The Twilight Zone where she was one of the original writers. In 1996 her career took off after writing for a feature film, TOMOKO NO BAAI (“In case of Tomoko”), which was nominated for the Blue Ribbon Award in Japan. In the same year, her two hour telefilm, SAIGO NO KAZOKU RYOKO (Family Affair) for Tokyo Broadcast System won the monthly Galaxy Award of the month. Her work includes, MANHATTAN DIARIES(2006), KEKKONN NO KATACHI (2004), PRETTY GIRL (2002), KOI NO KAMISAMA (2000), MOONLIGHT EXPRESS(1998), YAMADAKE NO SHINBOU(1999) SWEET SEASON (1998), RISOU NO KEKKON (1997), ICHIBAN TAISETSUNA HITO (1995), HITORIGURASHI (1996), HEN (1996), OKKUMANCHOJYA TO KEKKON SURU HOHO, KOKORO (2003), SEIZON (2002), TADAIMA (2000) and a telefilm GAMOUTEI JIKEN (1998) . She speaks Japanese, English, German, Cantonese and Spanish and was raised in Japan and lived in the United States and Europe for several years.
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