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Tsuka Kohei
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- He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1948. He wrote plays while studying at Keio University’s Faculty of Letters, and he began working as a playwright and stage director. In 1973, he released Atami Satsujin Jiken (The Atami Murder Case). He received the Kunio Kishida Drama Award at the age of 25, the youngest recipient at the time. He founded the theater troupe Tsuka Kohei Office in 1974 and staged plays, such as Stripper Monogatari (Stripper Story) and Kamata Kōshinkyoku (Kamata March). From the 1970s to the 1980s, he sparked a cultural phenomenon known as the “Tsuka Boom.” His novelization of the play Kamata Kōshinkyoku won the Naoki Prize. Seizing this opportunity, he disbanded his theater troupe and devoted himself to writing, but he later resumed his theatrical career. In 1990, he received the Yomiuri Literature Prize for his play Hiryuden’90: Satsuriku no Aki (Legend of the Flying Dragon ’90: Autumn of Slaughter). In 1994, in cooperation with Kita Ward, Tokyo, he founded the theater troupe Kita-ku Tsuka Kohei Gekidan. He was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal in 2007. His scriptwriting credits for television include Tsuka-ban Chūshingura (Tsuka’s Chushingura, 1982, TV Tokyo), Kamata Koshinkyoku (1983, TBS), Kamata Koshinkyoku 2: Gin-chan Goes (1991, TBS), and Atami Satsujin Jiken (Atami Murder Case, 2001, Fuji TV). He died in July 2010 at the age of 62.
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