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Kōbō Abe
Kita, Tokyo, Japan
Kōbō Abe, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and…
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Kōbō Abe, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities. Among the honors bestowed on him were the Akutagawa Prize in 1951 for The Crime of S. Karuma, the Yomiuri Prize in 1962 for Woman in the Dunes, and the Tanizaki Prize in 1967 for the play Friends. Kenzaburō Ōe stated that Abe deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he himself had won (Abe was nominated multiple times).
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2024
The Box Man
Movie Novel
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2021
Shinrei Shokudō 2
Movie Original Story
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2002
The Box Man
Movie Original Story
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1987
Friends
Movie Original Story
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1980
The Little Elephant is Dead / An Elephant Calf Is Dead
Movie Director
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1974
A Poet's Life
Movie Original Story
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1971
The Cliff of Time
Movie Writer
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1970
240 Hours in One Day
Movie Screenplay
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1968
The Man Without a Map
Movie Novel
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1966
The Face of Another
Movie Screenplay
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1964
Ako
Movie Original Story
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1964
Woman in the Dunes
Movie Novel
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1963
Intruders
Movie Screenplay
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1962
Pitfall
Movie Story
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1956
The Thick-Walled Room
Movie Screenplay
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1954
A Billionaire
Movie Writer
