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Suzuki Naoyuki
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- He was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1929. He studied at the former Gifu Daini Junior High School (now Gifu Prefectural Kano High School) and then at Nihon University’s Faculty of Arts. Upon graduation, he joined Toei, initially serving as an assistant director at the Tokyo Studio. However, due to ill health, he was transferred to the Planning Department at the company’s headquarters, where he transitioned into a career as a screenwriter. He made his screenwriting debut in 1961 with the film Miyamoto Musashi, directed by Tomu Uchida. After serving as a screenwriter for several Shigeru Okada productions, including Jinsei Gekijō: Hishakaku (Theater of Life: Hishakaku), Bushidō Zankoku Monogatari (Bushido, Samurai Saga), Miyamoto Musashi: Nitōryū Kaigan (Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of the Nito-ryu Style), Goban-chō Yugiriro (A House in the Quarter), and Okashi na Yatsu (The Weird Guy), he wrote the screenplay for Tomu Uchida’s 1965 masterpiece, Kiga Kaikyō (A Fugitive from the Past). In 1967, he left Toei and went freelance. He subsequently wrote screenplays for productions such as Tsujigahana (Flowers at the Crossing, 1972), Kosodate Gokko (Game of Child Rearing, 1979), Kodomo no Koro Sensō ga Atta (There Was a War When I was a Child, 1981), and Asuka e, Soshite Mada Minu Ko e (Dear Asuka and My Unborn Child, 1982). He also penned many television dramas, including San-shimai (Three Sisters, 1967, NHK), Shiroi Kyotō (The White Tower, 1978–1979, Fuji TV), and Fumō Chitai (The Barren Zone, 1979, MBS). He died in November 2005 at the age of 76.
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