Kazuhiro Kiuchi Explained

Kazuhiro Kiuchi
Native Name:	木内 一裕
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Date:	14 September 1960^[1]
Birth Place:	Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
Nationality:	Japanese
Occupation:	Manga artist, film director and novelist
Years Active:	Manga: 1983-present Film: 1991-present Novel: 2004-present
Known For:	Be-Bop High School

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^[2] 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

• Be-Bop High School (1983–2003)
• Saru Banchō (1996–1997)
• MI-4 (1998–1999)

Films

• Karurosu (1991)
• Be-Bop High School (1994)
• Joker (1996)
• Tetsu to Namari (1997)
• Kyōhansha (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

External links

• • Profile at The Ultimate Manga Site
• Kazuhiro Kiuchi at Vertical Inc

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://www.facebook.com/Kiuchi.Kazuhiro.BeBop. ja:木内一裕/きうちかずひろ. Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 2015-05-03. Facebook. Japanese.
2. Web site: Kodansha Manga Awards . Joel Hahn . Comic Book Awards Almanac . 2007-08-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070816031310/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml . 2007-08-16 . dead .