Hase Seishū
Hase Seishū (馳 星周, born February 18, 1965) is the pen name of Toshihito Bandō (坂東 齢人), a well-known Japanese novelist. He is known for writing Yakuza crime novels. His pen name is based on the Chinese name of Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow, Chow Sing-chi (周星馳), written backwards and rendered in Japanese.[1]
He was born in
Hokkaido, Japan and graduated from Yokohama City University with his B.A. in 1987.[2]
A few of his novels were adapted into
Asian films, such as The City of Lost Souls and Sleepless Town
, in 2000 and 1998, respectively.
Hase supervised the story for
the series
.
In 2020, Hase won the Naoki Prize with his novel “Shonen to Inu” (“A Boy and Dog”).[3]
References
- ^ "Booksfromjapan.jp".
- ^ 卒業生インタビュー12 馳星周氏(in Japanese)
- ^ "Novelists Takayama and Tono win Akutagawa awards; Hase wins Naoki Prize". The Japan Times. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
External links
- Hase Seishū at IMDb
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