Kōbō Abe
Age: N/A | From: Kita, Tokyo, Japan
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Kita, Tokyo, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 17
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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).
Most Famous Work
Woman in the Dunes
(1964) Screenplay
The Face of Another
(1966) Screenplay
Pitfall
(1962) Story
The Thick-Walled Room
(1956) Screenplay
The Man Without a Map
(1968) Novel
Ako
(1964) Original Story
A Poet's Life
(1974) Original Story
Friends
(1988) Original StoryActing
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Writing
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| 2002 | Original Story | |
| 1988 | Original Story | |
| 1974 | Original Story | |
| 1971 | Writer | |
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| 1968 | Screenplay | |
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| 1966 | Novel | |
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| 1964 | Novel | |
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| 1962 | Screenplay | |
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| 1956 | Screenplay | |
| 1954 | Writer | |
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Directing
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| 1971 | Director | |
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