Kōhei Tsuka

Korean spelling of Honmyō
Hangeul	김봉웅
Hanja	金峰雄
Revised Romanization	Gim Bong-ung
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Pongung
See also : Korean name

Kōhei Tsuka ( Japanese つ か こ う へ い , Tsuka Kōhei ; Japanese name: Kanehara Mineo , 金 原 峰 雄 ; * April 24, 1948 in Kaho (today: Kama ), Fukuoka Prefecture ; † July 10, 2010 ) was a Korean-Japanese playwright, director and theater manager.

Tsuka belonged to the second generation of Korean immigrants in Japan and did not hold Japanese citizenship. He was in the 1960s one of the most important directors of the small theater ("Shōgekijō"). He had his first great success with the piece Atami satsujin jiken (1973), for which he received the Kishida Kunio Prize . He then founded the theater group Atami satsujin jiken in 1974 , which was awarded the Kinokuniya Theater Prize in 1980. He received the Japanese Academy Award in 1983 for his screenplay for the film Die Todestreppe (Direction: Kinji Fukasaku ) . In 1990 he was awarded the Yomiuri Literature Prize for Hiryūden '90: Kitsuriku no aki ( 飛龍 伝 '90 殺戮 の 秋 ) .

Works (selection)

• 1970 Yūbinya-san chotto ( 郵 便 屋 さ ん ち ょ っ と )
• 1971 Sensō de shinenakatta otōsan no tame ni ( 戦 争 で 死 ね な か っ た お 父 さ ん の た め に )
• 1972 Shokyū kakumei kōza hiryūden ( 初級 革命 講座 飛龍 伝 )
• 1973 Atami satsujin jiken ( 熱 海 殺人 事件 )
• 1980 Sutorippā monogatari ( ス ト リ ッ パ ー 物語 )
• 1981 Kamata kōshinkyoku ( 蒲 田 行進 曲 )
• 1982 Bara Hoteru ( 薔薇 ホ テ ル )
• 1982 Tsuka-ban Chūshingura ( つ か 版 ・ 忠臣 蔵 )
• 1983 Seishun kakeochiban ( 青春 か け お ち 篇 )
• 1987 Kyōko ( 今日 子 )

literature

• Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn (Ed.): The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama . tape 2 . Columbia University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-231-14424-7 , pp. 1383 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Katherine Brisbane, Ravi Chaturvedi, Ramendu Majumdar, Chua Soo Pong, Minoru Tanokura: The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theater . Ed .: Don Rubin. tape 5 : Asia / Pacific . Routledge, 2005, ISBN 1-134-92978-1 , pp. 298 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Günther Haasch: Japan - country and people: geography and history, politics and economy, culture and society . BWV Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8305-1908-9 , pp. 272–273 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Kôhei Tsuka in the Internet Movie Database (English)