Kazuki Kaneshiro

Kazuki Kaneshiro ( Japanese 金城 一 紀 , Kaneshiro Kazuki ; born October 29, 1968 in Kawaguchi , Saitama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese- Korean writer and screenwriter.

Life

Kaneshiro belongs to the Zainichi minority that remained in Japan after World War II . He obtained Japanese citizenship later in his life . His father was a Marxist-Leninist . Therefore, he first attended schools that sympathized with the Chongryon , the North Korean association of Koreans living in Japan. After his father later turned to the Mindan , the Korean association in Japan that sympathized with South Korea , he attended Hozen High School in the Shibuya district of Tokyo .

Kaneshiro graduated from Keiō University in Tokyo with a law degree .

Awards

• 2000: Naoki Prize for Go

Works

• 2000: Go , Kōdansha, Tōkyō, ISBN 4-062100541 .
  • Movie: Go (2001)
  • Go! , translated by Nora Bierich. Cass Verlag, Löhne 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809022-5-0 .
• 2003: Taiwa-hen ( 対 話 篇 ), Kōdansha, Tōkyō.
• 2007: Eiga-hen ( 映 画 篇 )
• 2010: Yabo-hen , short film. Script.
• 2011: Kakamuri-hen , short film. Script and script,

Zombies series

• 2001: Revolution No.3 ( レ ヴ ォ リ ュ ー シ ョ ン No.3 , Revoryūshon No.3 )
• 2003: Fly, Daddy, Fly (Furai, Daddi, furai), Kōdansha, Tōkyō.
  • Fly, Daddy, Fly , translated by Katja Busson, Cass Verlag, Löhne 2012, ISBN 978-3-9809022-7-4 .
• 2005: SPEED
• 2011: Revolution No.0 ( レ ヴ ォ リ ュ ー シ ョ ン No.0 )

Scripts

• 2005: Fly, Daddy Fly .
• 2008: for the Fuji TV series SP: Keishi-chō Keibi-bu Keigo-ka Dai-yon-gakari ( SP 警 視 庁 警備 部 警 護 課 第四 係 ).

Web links

• Kazuki Kaneshiro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Author's biography on booksfromjapan.jp