, known by the pen names and , was a Japanese

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manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is ...

writer, and film producer. He is known for the work about

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and

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, with images of heroic young men with the occasional fine details as he moves from one topic to another. He considered ''

Tiger Mask is a Japanese manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Naoki Tsuji. The series was first published in Kodansha's ''Bokura Magazine'' from 1968 to 1970 and was later published in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1970 to ...

'' and ''

Star of the Giants is a Japanese sports manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1966 to 1971. It is about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using ...

'' to be his life's work.

Biography

The son of an illustrator and editor, Takamori was a notorious

juvenile delinquent Juvenile delinquency, also known as juvenile offending, is the act of participating in unlawful behavior as a minor or individual younger than the statutory age of majority. In the United States of America, a juvenile delinquent is a person ...

with an interest on fighting. After

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, his family moved to

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, where he jumped schools until landing a job as a novelist at 17. He adopted the pen names Ikki Kajiwara and Asao Takamori, since he was writing for a rival magazine at the time.Clements, Jonathan; McCarthy Helen. (2006). ''The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition''. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. . He was married to Pai Bing-bing and fathered a daughter, Pai Hsiao-yen, who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in 1997.

Works

Manga

All listings are as Ikki Kajiwara unless otherwise specified. * '' Ai to Makoto'' (art: Takumi Nagayasu) * ''

Asahi no Koibito Asahi (朝日, 旭, or あさひ) means "morning sun" in Japanese and may refer to: Cities * Asahi, Chiba (旭市; ''Asahi-shi'') Wards * Asahi-ku, Osaka (旭区; ''Asahi-ku'') * Asahi-ku, Yokohama (旭; ''Asahi-ku'') Towns * Asahi, Aichi (旭� ...

'' (as Asao Takamori, art: Eiji Kazama) * ''

Ashita no Joe is a Japanese boxing manga series written by Asao Takamori (a pen name of Japanese author and manga writer Ikki Kajiwara, and one that's a variation on his real name) and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba. The story follows a young man named ...

'' (art: Tetsuya Chiba) * ''

Akaki Chi no Eleven is manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara with drawings by Mitsuyoshi Sonoda. An anime adaption directed by Ken Yamada and produced by Kimio Ikeda, Hiroshi Mishima and Takahashi Noboyuki for Tokyo TV Doga aired between 1970 and 1971, which consi ...

'' (art: Mitsuyoshi Sonoda) * ''

Champion Futoshi A champion (from the late Latin ''campio'') is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition. There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and world championships, a ...

'' (art: Tatsuo Yoshida) * '' Jūdō Icchokusen'' (art: Shinji Nagashima) * ''

Karate Baka Ichidai is a Japanese manga drawn by Jirō Tsunoda and Jōya Kagemaru, with the story written by Ikki Kajiwara. The story was inspired by the life of the real-life karate martial artist Mas Oyama. The manga was published in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazin ...

'' (art: Jirō Tsunoda and Jōya Kagemaru) * '' Karate Jigokuhen'' (art: Ken Nakajō) * ''

Kick no Oni , also known as ''The Demon of Kickboxing'', is a manga written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Kentaro Nakajou. It was based on the life of the kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura. History Written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Kentaro Nak ...

'' (art: Ken Nakajō) * '' Kurenai no Chōsensha'' (as Asao Takamori, art: Ken Nakajō) * ''

Kyojin no Hoshi is a Japanese sports manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1966 to 1971. It is about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using fic ...

'' (art:

Noboru Kawasaki is a Japanese manga artist. He is most famous for illustrating the series ''Star of the Giants''. He won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1969 for ''Animal 1'' and '' Inakappe Taishō'' as well as the eighth Kodansha Children's Manga Award for ...

) * '' Ningen Kyōki'' (art: Yasuo Nakano) * '' Otoko Michi'' (art:

Takao Yaguchi , real name , was a Japanese manga artist. He specialized in manga with ecological messages. His most famous manga was '' Fisherman Sanpei'', which won the Kodansha Children's Manga Award in 1974. Biography Takao Yaguchi was born on 28 October ...

) * '' Otoko no Jōken'' (art:

) * ''

Otoko no Seiza Otoko may refer to: *Ōtoko River, New Zealand river *Otoko, New Zealand Otoko is a small settlement west of Te Karaka in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. State Highway 2 runs through Otoko on its way from Ōpōtiki to Gisbor ...

'' (art: Kunichika Harada) * ''Pro Wrestling Superstar Retsuden'' (art: Kunichika Harada) * ''

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'' (art: Kō Inoue) * '' Shikakui Jungle'' (as Asao Takamori, art: Ken Nakajō) * '' Shin Karate Jigokuhen'' (art: Ken Nakajō) * ''

'' (art:

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) * '' Tiger Mask 2nd'' (art: Junichi Miyata) * '' Yuuyake Banchō'' (art: Toshio Shōji)

Movies

* '' Ai no nagisa''（1976） * '' Chijou saikyou no karate''（1976年）:documentary * '' Chijou saikyou no karate PART2''（1976）:documentary * '' Ame no meguri ai''（1977） * '' Hishuu monogatari''（1977）（director：

Seijun Suzuki , born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predo ...

、plot：

Atsushi Yamatoya was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. His son is a fellow screenwriter and race horse owner . Life and career Yamatoya was born in Horonaicho, Mikasa, Hokkaido and raised in Tokyo. He graduated from the First Department of Liter ...

） * '' Seiki no shinken shoubu Shijou saikyou no karate kessyuu hen''（1977） :documentary * '' Mach'78''（1978） * '' Karate dai sensou''（1978） * '' Kakutougi sekai ichi Shikakui jungle''（1978） :documentary * '' Gekitotsu! Kakutougi Shikakui jungle''（1979）:documentary * '' Saikyou Saigo no karate''（1980） :documentary * ''

''（1980） * '' Kakutougi Olympic''（1980）:documentary * '' Little Champion''（1981） * '' Ashita no Joe 2'' （1981） * ''

''（1982） * '' Modorigawa''（1983）（director：

Tatsumi Kumashiro was a Japanese film director known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning '' Roman Porno'' films, such as ''Ichijo's Wet Lust'' (1972) and '' The Woman with Red Hair'' (1979). He was the most highly acclaimed director of the early Nikkatsu ...

, plot：

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Career Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film '' W's Traged ...

、original story：

Mikihiko Renjō was a Japanese writer, winner of the Naoki Prize. He was also an ordained priest within the Ōtani-ha branch of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism. Life He was born in Nagoya, and graduated from the Political Economy Department of Waseda University. H ...

「Modorigawa Shinjuu」）

References

* ''

Bakuman is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for ''Death Note''. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from August 2 ...

'' manga by

Tsugumi Ohba is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer, best known for authoring the ''Death Note'' manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006, which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation. The duo's second series, '' Bakuman. ...

, chapter 5, page 16–17. It is mentioned there that, by the time he was working on ''Ashita no Joe'', Kajiwara was working in five series at the same time (''Joe'' included).

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