Umeda Mika is a Japanese screenwriter and essayist from Tokyo.
Haruo Umeda, a former movie actress, is her eldest daughter while the management consultant Nobuo Umeda is her older brother. She was married to a film director Masayuki Ochiai.
After graduating from Faculty of Literature at Keio University, she served as a Japanese practical publisher for two years and entered writing activities as a radio composition worker with the recommendation of Junji Hongo whom she met during a part-time job at a planning company.
She debuted in 1994 as a screenwriter with a TV drama "What is love like?"
In 1998 "Laws of Mistress" became the best seller, and after that, she started focusing on love essays based on real experience.
