Kōbō Abe
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor · Japan · On the map · Writers · Lived 1924 to 1993 · aged 68
Kimifusa Abe , known by his pen name Kōbō Abe , was a Japanese writer, playwright and director. His 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara Directed Pitfall and Woman in the Dunes
Eiji Okada Also in Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Kyōko Kishida Kōbō wrote The Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Hideo Kanze Also in Pitfall and Woman in the Dunes
Masaki Kobayashi Directed The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
Etsuko Ichihara Also in The Face of Another (1966)
Kunie Tanaka Kōbō wrote The Face of Another (1967)
Hisashi Igawa Kōbō wrote The Face of Another (1967)- Yūnosuke Itō Also in A Billionaire and The Thick-Walled Room
Kōji Mitsui Also in The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
Miki Irie Kōbō wrote The Adolescents (1964)
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Abe has often been compared to Franz Kafka for his modernist sensibilities and his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society. He died aged 68 of heart failure in Tokyo after a brief illness.
