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Tonkô Horikawa
Nakanojo, Gunma, Japan
Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He stud…
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Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei". He joined TBS after graduating from university. His representative work as a producer is "Kishibe no Album". In 1984, he won the Newcomer Award for Art Award. After that, he became a movie director and directed "Sennen no Koi: Hikaru Genji Monogatari" in 2001. After retiring from TBS, he belonged to the TV production company "Kazumo" represented by his senior Ohyama Katsumi, but became independent in 2006. He died at his home in Yugawara Town, Kanagawa Prefecture at the age of 82 on March 28, 2020, due to lung cancer.
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2014
Time Never Stops
Movie Director
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2007
Ri Kôran
Movie Director
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2005
For the coming day
Movie Director
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2001
Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
Movie Director
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1997
職員室
TV show Director
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1995
Yesterday Enemy is Still Enemy Today
TV show Producer
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1994
On the Far Side of Twilight
Movie Executive Producer
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1989
Still Life - Kiriko and Marie's Criminal Cohabitation Life
Movie Director
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1987
Seiko Matsuda's Sweet Memories
Movie Producer
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1984
水曜ドラマスペシャル
TV show Director
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1983
Kawasaki Vice Squad
Movie Producer
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1977
The Album on the Shore
TV show Director
