is a Japanese manga artist, film director and novelist. As a manga writer, he is best known for the series Be-Bop High School, which won the 1988 Kodansha Manga Award for the general category and was adapted as series of live-action movies and as a 7 episode anime OVA series. He was director of one segment of Killers.
Manga series
Films
- ' (1991)
- Be-Bop High School (1994)
- Joker (1996)
- Tetsu to Namari (1997)
- KyÃ
Âhansha (1999)
- Pay Off (Killers) (2003)
- Out and Out (2018)
Novels
- , 2004 (Film: Shield of Straw, directed by Takashi Miike, 2013)
- English translation: Shield of Straw, translated by Asumi Shibata, Vertical, 2016
- , 2007
- English translation: A Dog in Water, translated by Maya Rosewood, Vertical, 2013
- , 2009
- , 2010
- , 2011
- , 2012
- , 2013
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