Nozawa Hisashi

[Aaron Gerow]

The news reports that the body of the scriptwriter and novelist Nozawa 
Hisashi was discovered today, serveral days after he committed suicide. 
He was only 44. He apparently hung himself in his office, but it was 
only a couple days later that a friend came to visit and found the 
body. There was no suicide note.

Nozawa began writing for television in the mid-1980s, but soon began 
writing for film as well. In a still notorious incident, his script for 
Sono otoko, kyobo ni tsuki (Violent Cop) was radically rewritten by 
Kitano Takeshi when he took over the reins from Fukasaku Kinji. 
Nozawa's other film credits include Maririn ni aitai and Fuyajo. He has 
written several popular television dramas, including Koibito yo, Aoi 
tori and Nemureru mori. In recent years, he has branched off into 
mystery novels, winning important prizes. He wrote the script for the 
film Hasen no Marisu based on his own Edogawa Ranpo Prize winning novel.

Aaron Gerow
KineJapan owner

Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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