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Miyoshi Juro
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- He was born in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, in 1902. He was a playwright, poet, novelist, and scriptwriter. He grew up as an orphan and was adopted by the Miyoshi family at the age of four, but he lost his adoptive parents and grandmother at the age of 12. He published a poem in 1924 while attending Waseda University, and he made his debut with the play Who’s Going to Cut Off a Head? in 1928. He started out as a proletarian playwright, but he later changed his stance and spent four years as a screenwriter at PCL (the predecessor of Toho). In 1951, he became the director of the Gikyokuza theater company and wrote plays depicting the lives of ordinary people, such as Kirare no Senta (Senta the Slashed), Bui (Buoy), and Honoo no Hito (Man of Flame). He died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1958 at the age of 56. Since it was only five years after the start of television broadcasting, he only wrote a few scripts for television, such as Ken’s Crime (1954, NHK), Suisen to Mokugyo (Narcissus and Wooden Temple Drum,1957, NHK), and Kemono no Yukue (Where the Beasts Go, 1957, NHK). In February 1959, NHK broadcast a memorial program for him, adapting his 1951 radio script Suzu ga Tōru (The Passing Bell)—widely considered a masterpiece—into a television drama.
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