is a Japanese screenwriter and historical novelist. Two of his novels have been adapted to films, ''

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'' and '' Land of Stealth''.

Life

He was born in

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but raised in Asaminami in

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. As a child he was an avid reader of SF novels, in particular ''

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'', but in high school he became more interested in films after watching ''

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''. After graduating from

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he worked for three years as an assistant director for a television production company. In 2003 his original screenplay won the "Kido Award" sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan to train and educate new screenwriters. In 2007 he made his debut as a fiction writer by turning his winning script into the historical novel which sold over two million copies. The novel was adapted into a film in 2012 with Wada writing the script. In 2013 Wada published the two-volume historical novel , which garnered both the Booksellers Award and the

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Prize for historical fiction and quickly became a bestseller.

Works

* -

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, 2007 - adapted into

(2012) * -

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, 2008 - adapted into Mumon: The Land of Stealth (2017) * -

, 2009 * -

, 2013

Manga

* ''Shinobi no Kuni'' illustrated by Mutsumi Banno - serialized in

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(2009 - 2010, 4 Volumes) * ''Shinobi no Kuni Anthology'' (2017, 1 Volume) * ''Murakami Kaizoku no Musume'' illustrated by Shirō Yoshida - serialized in

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(2015 - , 8 Volumes)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wada, Ryō 1969 births Japanese historical novelists Japanese male screenwriters Writers of historical fiction set in the early modern period 21st-century Japanese novelists Waseda University alumni Writers from Hiroshima Living people 21st-century Japanese screenwriters