Name Ryuzo Saki Books Mushroom Cloud | Role Novelist | |
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Died October 31, 2015, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan Movies Vengeance Is Mine, The Drive Similar People Shohei Imamura, Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Mayumi Ogawa, Mitsuko Baisho | ||
Ryūzō Saki (佐木 隆三, Saki Ryūzō, April 14, 1937 – October 31, 2015) was a Japanese novelist and non-fiction writer, born in North Hamgyong, a province of what is now North Korea. He was interested in high-profile crimes in Japan and published a number of non-fiction books about Japanese crimes.
On January 14, 1976, Saki was awarded the Naoki Prize for the novel Vengeance Is Mine based on Japanese serial killer Akira Nishiguchi. The novel became the basis of Shohei Imamura's film Vengeance Is Mine. He also wrote the books about Norio Nagayama, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Fusako Sano and Futoshi Matsunaga.
In 1992, Saki published a book about Japanese Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi and Korean An Jung-geun, titled Itō Hirobumi to An Jung-geun.
On 1 November 2015, he died from throat cancer in Kitakyūshū at age 78.