Yumiko Katayama

Career overview

Yumiko Katayama was born on 18 December 1949 in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. She is a Japanese actress who has been credited in twenty‑one film and television productions. She is also listed under the alternate spelling Yumiko Kataya.

Katayama’s screen career includes appearances in several Japanese genre films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Among her earliest noted works is the 1969 film Horrors of Malformed Men. She subsequently appeared in the 1971 production Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai, and in 1972 she was featured in the cult‑status title Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion. These three titles are highlighted as her most recognizable credits. Throughout her career she has been identified primarily as an actress, with her professional activity recorded under the stage name 片山由美子.

According to the database, Katayama is classified as a female performer and her professional portfolio comprises twenty‑one credited roles. Her work is catalogued under both her Japanese stage name 片山由美子 and the Romanized variant Yumiko Kataya. The three films cited as her most prominent appearances illustrate her involvement in the Japanese exploitation and horror genres during a period of prolific genre filmmaking in the early 1970s.