Saburō Kawamoto
Saburo Kawamoto is a Japanese film and literary critic, as well as a professor at Rikkyo University. After graduation from the University of Tokyo, he worked for the Asahi Newspaper company before leaving in 1972 to become a critic. He was one critic who helped to discover the talents of Haruki Murakami.
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Saburō Kawamoto
- Born
- 1944 · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- writer · translator · film critic · journalist · literary critic
- Fields
- essay
- Education
- University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law and Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
- Honours
- Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities · Yomiuri Prize · Mainichi Publication Culture Award · Takeo Kuwahara Academic Award · Sei Itō Award
- Languages
- Japanese
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Saburo Kawamoto is a Japanese film and literary critic, as well as a professor at Rikkyo University. After graduation from the University of Tokyo, he worked for the Asahi Newspaper company before leaving in 1972 to become a critic. He was one critic who helped to discover the talents of Haruki Murakami.
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He won the Suntory Prize for his book Taishū Genei in 1991, the Yomiuri Literature Award for Kafū and Tokyo in 1997, and the Itō Sei Literature Award for Hakushu Bōkei in 2012. Around 1970 he became close to a student radical when covering him as a journalist. When that student attacked an officer of the Japanese Self-Defence Force in Asaka, Saitama, killing him, Kawamoto was arrested for spoliation of evidence. He was convicted and given a sentence of probation. He was fired from the Asahi Newspaper company. Thereafter, he became a freelance writer. Nobuhiro Yamashita's film, My Back Page, is based on Kawamoto's essay about this affair.
Saburō Kawamoto studied at University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. The recorded working language is Japanese. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are essay. Employment is recorded with Rikkyo University. Distinctions recorded are Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, Yomiuri Prize, Mainichi Publication Culture Award and Takeo Kuwahara Academic Award.
• Taisho illusions 大正幻影 • My Back Page: a 60's story マイ・バック・ページ ある60年代の物語
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