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Ikehata Shunsaku
- Profile
- He was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1946. He graduated from Meiji University’s School of Political Science and Economics. While still a university student, he attended Scenario Kenkyūjo (Screenwriting Institute); following graduation, he worked for Tatsunoko Productions for six months. He later became an assistant scriptwriter to the director Shōhei Imamura, and he wrote the first drafts of Fukushū Suru wa Ware ni Ari (Vengeance is Mine) and Narayama Bushikō (The Ballad of Narayama). His breakthrough as a television scriptwriter came in 1981 with Kagerō no Shi (Death of Manfly) in 1981. Through this production, he met the director Yasuo Tsuruhashi and the actress Ruriko Asaoka; together, the trio collaborated on a total of six drama productions. His other scriptwriting credits include several works starring Ken Ogata, with whom he maintained a long-standing bond that dated back to their work on the following Shohei Imamura’s films: Hanedaura Chizu (The Map of Haneda Bay), Hyakunen no Otoko (The Hundred-Year Man), and Bōshi (The Hat). He also wrote productions staring Beat Takeshi, such as Shōwa 46-nen: Ōkubo Kiyoshi no Hanzai (The Crimes of Kiyoshi Okubo), Jesus no Hakobune (Jesus’s Ark), and Ano Sensō wa Nandattanoka (What Was That War?). Furthermore, he penned Chūsingura, which featured both Ogata and Takeshi in dual leading roles. In 1999, he made his directorial debut with the film Atsumono, starring Ken Ogata. He received the Kuniko Mukoda Award and the Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists for Watashi wo Fukaku Umete (Bury Me Deep), The Map of Haneda Bay, and Kiken na Toshigoro (Dangerous Age), as well as the Grand Prix at the Benodet International Film Festival in France for Atsumono. He was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal in 2009.
- Masterpieces
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仮の宿なるを
昭和四十六年 大久保清の犯罪
私を深く埋めて
危険な年ごろ
魔性
羽田浦地図
イエスの方舟
約束の旅
ここの岸より
海の群星
虹のある部屋