Yang Seok-il

Yang Seok-il ( Kor.  양석일 , Hanja  梁 石 日 , rev.  Yang Seok-il , MR  Yang Sŏgil , Japanese 梁 川 正雄 , Yanagawa Masao ; born August 13, 1936 ) is a Japanese writer of Korean origin.

Yang is one of the second generation Korean immigrants ( Zainichi ) in Japan. He grew up in Ikaino, the largest Korean community in Osaka . In his youth he took part in a movement for equal rights for Korean immigrants in Japan. He founded a literary magazine with Shijon Kim and others. After its failure, he worked as a taxi driver for ten years before making his debut as a writer with the collection of short stories Taxi kyōsōkyoku ( タ ク シ ー 狂躁 曲 ).

The stories, which focus on a taxi driver immigrated from Korea, were filmed in 1993 by Yōichi Sai under the title Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru ( 月 は ど っ ち に 出 て い る , "Where the moon is"). The 1998 novel Chi to hone ( 血 と 骨 , Blood & Bones ), which is considered to be Yang's main work, also has autobiographical backgrounds . It was filmed in 2004 by Yōichi Sai with Takeshi Kitano in the lead role. Yang addressed child prostitution and illegal organ trafficking in Southeast Asia in the novel Yami no kodomotachi ( 闇 のilleg 供 た ち ). This was filmed in 2008 under the direction of Junji Sakamoto .

Works (selection)

• Yōichi Sai and Chŏng Ŭi-sin: Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru
  • Screenplay based on the story Taxi kyōsōkyoku , translated by Carolin Dunkel, Berlin, Mori-Ōgai-Gedenkstätte, 2004

swell

• j.lit Books from Japan - Seok-il Yang
• Yang Seok-il in the Internet Movie Database (English)