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Sanpei Shirato
Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as his realistic drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of geki…
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A Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as his realistic drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of gekiga. The son of the Japanese proletarian painter Toki Okamoto, his dream to become an artist equal with his father started when he became a Kamishibai artist. He is also known for his work published in the early issues of the manga anthology magazine Garo in 1964, which he began publishing so as to serialize his comic Kamui.
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2009
Kamui
Movie Comic Book
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1989
Seton Animal Chronicles
TV show Comic Book
- 1971
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1969
The Legend of Ninja Kamui
TV show Comic Book
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1969
Band of Ninja Pilot
Movie Writer
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1968
Sasuke
TV show Comic Book
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1967
Band of Ninja
Movie Comic Book
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1966
Watari, the Ninja Boy
Movie Comic Book
- 1965
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1964
Shounen Ninja Kaze no Fujimaru: Nazo no Arabiya Ningyou
Movie Comic Book
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1964
Samurai Kid
TV show Comic Book
