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Uchimura Naoya
- Profile
- He was born in Tokyo in 1909. His elder brother was the businessman and playwright Takashi Sugawara. After graduating from Keio University in 1932, he studied under Kunio Kishida and became a member of the magazine Gekisaku (Play Writing). His debut work, Shusuirei, was published in 1935 and performed at the Tsukiji Theater. He wrote the scripts for the NHK radio drama series Eriko to Tomo ni (With Eriko). It was broadcast from 1948 to 1951. The song Yuki no Furu Machi wo (In a Snowy Town), which featured in the drama, was a huge hit and has been sung for many years. He wrote the scripts for I Kept a Promise (1953, Nippon Television), starring Yukiko Todoroki, the first drama series of NTV Theater, which was the first drama series on a Japanese commercial broadcasting station. In 1955, he wrote the script for the one-hour, four-location, live broadcast drama Tsuiseki (The Chase).The production pushed the boundaries of the television drama genre and became the first television work to win an award at the Art Festival Award. He was a scriptwriter who was a pioneer of dramas in the early days of television. He was a leading figure in the postwar shingeki world and was active in various fields, including writing original film stories, translating and compiling Western plays, and writing shōjo novels, as well as writing scripts. He died in July 1989 at the age of 79.
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