Shuhei Fujisawa

Shūhei Fujisawa ( Japanese 藤 沢 周 平 , Fujisawa Shūhei ; born November 26, 1927 in Yamagata Prefecture ; † January 26, 1997 ) was a Japanese writer . His real name is Tomeji Kosuge ( 小 菅 留 治 , Kosuge Tomeji ).

Life

After working as a teacher, he moved to Tokyo and became a newspaper editor there. In 1971 he won the All Yomiuri Shinjin-shō , an award for young literary talents, with his short story Kurai Umi ( 溟 海 ) . However, he only gave up his work as an editor when he won the renowned Naoki Prize for the samurai short story Ansatsu no Nenrin ( 暗殺 の 年輪 ) . In the following period, when he was a full-time writer for the first time, he continued to concentrate his literary work on historical stories and novels about samurai. He has published 50 books, many of them bestsellers, which have sold over 23 million copies in Japan. Fujisawa has received several other awards, including the Asahi Prize in 1994 .

Several film adaptations of his works for television and cinema were made, the best known of which is Samurai of the Twilight (2002). Based on three short stories from Fujisawa and directed by Yōji Yamada , this film won thirteen Japanese Academy Awards and was nominated for an Oscar . Yamada made two more films after Fujisawa: The Hidden Blade (2004) and Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun (2006).

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