Hideo Osabe Explained

Hideo Osabe
Birth Date:	3 September 1934
Occupation:	Novelist
Language:	Japanese
Nationality:	Japanese

was a Japanese essayist and novelist. His work focused on movies and Osamu Dazai.

He was born in Aomori Prefecture,^[1] where Dazai was also born. He also once directed a movie.

He won the Naoki Prize in 1973 for Tsugaru jongara bushi and Tsugaru yosare bushi.^[2]

He was awarded a Medal of Honor (with Purple Ribbon, for contributions to education and culture) from the Japanese government in 2002.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Tsugaru jongara bushi
• Tsugaru yosare bushi
• Tenno no Tanjo, Eigateki Kojiki^[3]

Essays

• Cherry and Christ, another history of Osamu Dazai^[4]

Filmography

• Festival of Dream (夢の祭り Yume no Matsuri) (director and writer)^[5]

a movie about a shamisen player

See also

• Closet screenplay

Notes and References

1. Web site: 長部日出雄 | 著者プロフィール | 新潮社.
2. Web site: Naoki-shō jushōsha ichiran. Bungei Shunjū. 4 October 2011. 21 February 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100221183424/http://www.bunshun.co.jp/award/naoki/list1.htm. dead.
3. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4087753700
4. https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4167350068
5. Web site: 夢の祭り - goo 映画 . 2011-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120311072251/http://movie.goo.ne.jp/movies/p18102/ . 2012-03-11 . dead .