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Iwama Yoshiki
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- He was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1929 but was raised in Fukushima Prefecture. He dropped out of Waseda University’s School of Literature I. He made his debut as a scriptwriter with an NHK radio drama while attending Waseda University. In 1952, he dropped out of the university to devote himself to scriptwriting. Coinciding with the simultaneous launch of commercial radio and the beginning of television broadcasting, he was active on radio and television as a scriptwriter of the first broadcasting generation. He excelled at writing hard-hitting works dealing with politics and crime. He penned a series of socially conscious dramas, including Tennō no Seiki (The Emperor’s Century), Kūhaku no 900-pun: Kokutetsu Sōsai Kaishi Jiken (900-Minute Blank Period: The Mysterious Death of the President of the Japanese National Railways), and Mariko. He received numerous awards, including the Emmy Award for International Excellence for the Japanese-French co-production drama Bigot wo Shitte Imasuka? (Do You Know a Bigot?), the 12th Kuniko Mukoda Award for Teinen, Nagai Yohaku (Retirement—Long Period of Blank), and the Education Minister’s Art Encouragement Prize (broadcasting category) for Mariko. In his later years, he wrote numerous scripts for many international television and film collaborations involving China, Poland, the former Soviet Union, and the former East Germany. He wrote the screenplays for the films Uemura Naomi Monogatari (The Story of Naomi Uemura) and Poppoya (Railway Man), which deeply moved audiences. He died in 1999 at the age of 70.
- Masterpieces
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オロロンの島
入場無料
天皇の世紀 第二部
エルムの木かげ
ガン回廊の朝
マリコ
遠くはなれて子守歌
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