Norio Nanjo(1908-2004)
- Writer
Graduated in the Tokyo Imperial University, debuted in 1951 with a
novel awarded by the Weekly Asahi, confirmed in 1953 with another award
for his work "Lord Protector of Child". From 1958 his novels have been
converted into films, beginning with "Nagareboshi Jûshi
Uchihishigareru" ("Battered Crossed Star"). His most adapted novels
were jidai-geki, being the most outstanding in 1963 "Daisan no
Kagemusha" ("The Third Shadow"), "Bushidô Zankoku Monogatari" ("Bushido
Cruel Story") and above all "Murasaki Ukyonosuke", a film in two parts
starring Hashizo Okawa playing moustached Murasaki. In 1975 another of
his novels, "Genroku Taiheiki", was also transformed in a TV
Series.
