, better known by his pen name , is a Japanese

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

Biography

He was born in Tokyo on 21 December 1934. He attended

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and studied aesthetics at

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. He then found work at

Nippon Broadcasting System , or JOLF, is a Japanese radio station in Yurakucho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo, next to the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Founded in 1954, it is together with Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, the flagship station of the National Radio Network. Nippon Broa ...

(NBS). While an employee there, he also began submitting scripts for NBS radio programs under the pen name Sō Kuramoto, keeping his identity a secret from his employers. In 1963 he left NBS and began working as a freelancer. He had troubles around

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

's teleplay ''Katsu Kaishū'' and escaped to

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. After staying in

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, he moved to Furano in 1977. In 1984 he established Furano Juku, a school for script-writers and actors.

Works

Television

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Katsu Kaishū Count , best known by his nickname , was a Japanese statesman and naval engineer during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period. Kaishū was a nickname which he took from a piece of calligraphy (Kaishū Shooku ) by Sakuma Shōzan. He ...

'' (1974) *''Zenryaku Ofukurosama'' (1975) *'' Daitokai Season1'' (1976) *''

Haguregumo is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by George Akiyama. It has been serialized by Shogakukan in '' Big Comic Original'' from 1973 to 2017 and collected in 112 tankōbon volumes. ''Haguregumo'' received the 1979 Shogakukan Mang ...

'' (1978) * (1981–2002) *'' Yasuragi no Sato'' (2018-19) *''Yasuragi no Toki Michi'' (2019-20)

Film

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Kunoichi ninpō is a 1964 Japanese erotic film directed by Sadao Nakajima in his directorial debut. It is based on Futaro Yamada's novel of the same title. Plot In the Siege of Osaka, five female ninjas who pregnanted with Toyotomi Hideyori's child escape fro ...

'' (1964) *''

Kunoichi Keshō also known as ''The Spying Sorceress''is a 1964 Japanese comedy ''jidaigeki'' film directed by Sadao Nakajima. Nakajima himself did the casting and Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Kō Nishimura and Masumi Harukawa were cast from Shohei Imamura's film Unholy ...

'' (1964) *'' Blue Christmas'' (1978) *''Fuyu no Hana'' (1978) *'' Station'' (1981) *''

Tokei – Adieu l'hiver is a 1986 Japanese film directed by Sō Kuramoto. Cast * Ayumi Ishida * Tetsuya Watari * Kunie Tanaka * Hideo Murota * Minori Terada * Masumi Okada * Toshiyuki Nagashima * Eri Ishida * Midori Satsuki Awards and nominations 29th Blue Ribbon Awa ...

'' (1986)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuramoto, Sō 1934 births Living people Japanese screenwriters University of Tokyo alumni

Biography

Works

Television

Film

See also

References