was a Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist. He won the

Kuniko Mukōda was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd Naoki Prize (1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya." Life Mukōda was born in Tokyo, and mov ...

Prize in 1998 for his screenplay ''

Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to 24 December 1998. It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, starring Miho Nakayama and Takuya Kimura, and features music by Mariya Takeuchi (Theme song – Camouflage) and ...

'' (A Sleeping Forest) and '' Kekkon Zen'ya'' (The Night before the Wedding). He also won the

Edogawa Rampo Prize The , named after Edogawa Rampo, is a Japanese literary award which has been presented every year by the Mystery Writers of Japan since 1955.Fukue, Nastuko,Literary awards run spectrum, ''Japan Times'', 14 February 2012, p. 3. Though its name is si ...

in 1997 for '' Hasen no marisu'' (Dotted-line Malice) and the

Eiji Yoshikawa was a Japanese historical novelist. Among his best-known novels are revisions of older classics. He was mainly influenced by classics such as ''The Tale of the Heike'', ''Tale of Genji'', ''Water Margin'' and ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'', m ...

Prize for New Writers in 2001 for ''Shinku'' (Crimson). The South Korean TV Network SBS broadcast a 16 Episode Drama ''

Alone in Love ''Alone in Love'' (; lit. ''Love Generation'') is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Kam Woo-sung, Son Ye-jin, Gong Hyung-jin and Lee Ha-na. It is based on the Japanese novel by Hisashi Nozawa, which was published in 1996 and won the ...

'' adapted from one of his novels in 2006. He also wrote ''

Detective Conan - The Phantom of Baker Street ''Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street'', known as in Japan, is the sixth ''Case Closed'' feature film, released in Japan on April 20, 2002. ''The Phantom of Baker Street'' is the first film in the series written by Hisashi Nozawa. This wa ...

''. He was found dead in his office in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

's Meguro ward after he had apparently hanged himself several days earlier. A note was also found at the scene.

References

External links

J'Lit , Authors : Hisashi Nozawa , Books from Japan
1960 births 2004 suicides Japanese crime fiction writers Edogawa Rampo Prize winners Suicides by hanging in Japan People from Nagoya Japanese television writers 20th-century Japanese screenwriters {{Japan-writer-stub

See also

References

External links