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Hojo Makoto
- Profile
- He was born in Tokyo in 1918. He was a novelist and a playwright. In 1940, he graduated from Waseda University and worked for Japan Tourist Bureau (now Japan Travel Bureau). He studied literature under Yasunari Kawabata and was subsequently nominated for both the Akutagawa and Naoki prizes. In 1947, he wrote the script for the popular radio drama Mukō-sangen Ryō-donari (Three Houses Opposite, Two Next Door, NHK). Following this, he actively wrote scripts for radio, stage, and television. He was the scriptwriter for the first NHK Taiga historical drama Hana no Shogai (Life of a Flower) in 1963. His television scripts include Kimagure Tenshi (The Moody Angel, 1954, NHK), Yagate Aozora (Someday the Blue Sky, 1955, NHK), Asu no Hanabira (Tomorrow’s Petals, 1955, Radio Tokyo [now TBS]), Musuko no Seishun (My Son’s Youth, 1956, NTV), Tabibito (The Traveler, 1959, Fuji TV), Futatsu no Hashi (Two Bridges, 1962, NHK), Niji no Sekkei (Design of Rainbow, 1964–1966, NHK), and Haru Shigure (Spring Showers, 1973, NTV). He also adapted works by his mentor, Yasunari Kawabata, for the screen, such as Onna de Aru Koto (Being a Woman), Yama no Oto (The Sound of the Mountain), Utsukushisa to Kanashimi to (Beauty and Sadness), Yukiguni (Snow Country), Izu no Odoriko (The Dancing Girl of Izu), Haha no Hatsukoi (Mother’s First Love), and Senbazuru (Thousand Cranes). He died in 1976 at the age of 58.
- Masterpieces
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大河ドラマ「花の生涯」