30 Facts About Hisashi Inoue

Inoue Hisashi was a Japanese playwright and writer of comic fiction.

Hisashi Inoue was born in what is part of Kawanishi in Yamagata Prefecture, where his father was a pharmacist.

Hisashi Inoue's father was involved in an agrarian reform movement and managed a local drama troupe.

Hisashi Inoue graduated from Sophia University's Facility of Letters, continuing on to graduate school in French literature, with a two-year hiatus in between to raise more money for his studies by working at a sanatorium in Kamaishi, Iwate.

World War II ended when Hisashi Inoue was just 11 years old.

The experience of war helped shape Hisashi Inoue's own writing style, and fostered an anti-war perspective.

Hisashi Inoue wrote a semi-fictional account of his life during this period in Mokkinpotto Shi no Atoshimatsu.

Hisashi Inoue first gained literary recognition for his satirical comic plays in the tradition of the Edo period gesaku genre.

Hisashi Inoue has won a very large number of literary awards in the course of his career, including the 67th Naoki Prize in 1972 for his novel Tegusari Shinju.

Hisashi Inoue followed on this success in 1981 with Kirikirijin, which was inspired by Leicester Hemingway's New Atlantis and was awarded both the Yomiuri Literary Prize and the 2nd Japan Science Fiction Award.

In 1983, Hisashi Inoue established his own theatre troupe called "Komatsuza" to perform his own plays.

Hisashi Inoue was awarded the Asahi Prize in the year 2000 and the Yomiuri Literary Prize again in 2010.

Hisashi Inoue's career delves into the genre of science fiction.

Hisashi Inoue started radio broadcasting with the play X-Man.

Hisashi Inoue wrote for the daily children's television show Hyokkori Hyotanjima ["Madcap Island"], which was a puppet show in which a volcanic eruption destroyed a whole community adrift.

Hisashi Inoue created the theme songs for Himitsu no Akko-chan, Hans Christian Andersen Stories and Moomin.

Hisashi Inoue is known for writing the lyrics and screenplay for The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots.

Hisashi Inoue's writing is for Japanese people, and his plays were usually have strong influenced from Japanese culture.

Hisashi Inoue is famous for using high quality Japanese words in his writing.

Hisashi Inoue's suffered young life from the death of his father and World War II influenced him to have interest about the life of ordinary people.

Hisashi Inoue had warm and kind perspectives about poor or weak people, and it is shown in his plays.

Hisashi Inoue's play tries to give hope and show the kind side of society.

Hisashi Inoue's writing was based on Humanism, and this likely accounts for his popularity with the public.

Hisashi Inoue usually focused on showing how ordinary people's lives were destroyed by war or calamity and how they cured themselves.

Hisashi Inoue lived in Ichikawa, Chiba in the 1970s, and moved to Kamakura, Kanagawa from 1989, where he lived until his death.

Hisashi Inoue had three daughters by his first wife, Yoshiko Nishidate, who was a stage actress and political activist.

Hisashi Inoue hated air travel, but was fascinated by the city of Bologna in Italy, which he visited in 2004.

Hisashi Inoue had previously visited Australia in 1976, and had visited New York City in the 1980s for discussion about a possible Broadway version of a story of Miyamoto Musashi he was planning to write.

Hisashi Inoue was director of the Japan Association of Playwrights, and director of the Institute of Japanese Literature.

An outspoken pacifist, Hisashi Inoue established a political group in support of the Constitution of Japan with Kenzaburo Oe in 2004.