Name Koichi Iiboshi Died March 2, 1996 Children Keiko Iiboshi | Role Journalist | |
Movies Battles Without Honor and Humanity Similar People Keiko Iiboshi, Koji Takada, Kinji Fukasaku, Junji Sakamoto, Tomoyasu Hotei | ||
Kōichi Iiboshi (飯干 晃一, Iiboshi Kōichi, 2 June 1927 in Osaka - 2 March 1996 in Tokyo) was a Japanese journalist for Yomiuri Shinbun and author.
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Career
Iiboshi was an alumnus of Kyoto University. He was the vice copy chief of the social news division of the national Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.
When Shigeru Okada, the president of Tōei Film Studio, got a manuscript from the yakuza Kōzō Minō (美能幸三), he asked Iiboshi to rewrite it as a novel. After that, Iiboshi wrote several series of novels about yakuza conflicts and the dark side of Japanese politics.
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