is a Japanese
manga artist and character designer.
Biography
Kubonouchi made his professional career debut in 1986 with the short story ''Okappiki Eiji'' published in the manga magazine ''
Shōnen Sunday''. From 1988 to 1991, he worked on his first series, ''Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō'', which was in 1991 made into a movie with
Kōyō Maeda (
ja) in the leading role. His second manga series, ''Watanabe'', was made into a television series in 1993, directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific ...
. After a 7-year hiatus, Kubonouchi began ''
Chocolat'', a story about a former mob boss, just having been released from the prison, who befriends a 16-year-old girl. ''Chocolat'' was published from October 1999 to September 2003 in ''
Big Comic Spirits
is a weekly Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shogakukan. The first issue was published on October 14, 1980. Food, sports, romance and business are recurring themes in the magazine, and the stories often question conventional va ...
''.
In 2003, the manga was made into a
television drama
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super- ...
,
that lasted 45 episodes.
Works
Other works
References
External links
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Interview with Eisaku Kubonouchi about dramatizing Chocolat(Web Archive)
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List of Eisaku Kubonouchi's worksat
Shogakukan
is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics ( manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.
Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the H ...
official site
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1966 births
Living people
Manga artists from Kōchi Prefecture
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