Writer
Kōbō Abe
102 years · Kita, Tokyo, Japan · 9 films
Kōbō Abe, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities. Among the honors bestowed on him were the Akutagawa Prize in 1951 for The Crime of S. Karuma, the Yomiuri Prize in 1962 for Woman in the Dunes, and the Tanizaki Prize in 1967 for the play Friends. Kenzaburō Ōe stated that Abe deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he himself had won (Abe was nominated multiple times).
Best known for
Filmography 9
The Little Elephant is Dead / An Elephant Calf Is Dead
1980 · Director, Music
The Cliff of Time
1971 · Director, Writer
240 Hours in One Day
1970 · Screenplay
The Man Without a Map
1968 · Screenplay
The Face of Another
1966 · Screenplay
On Mometu
Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Screenplay
On Darkroom
Pitfall
1962 · Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
The Thick-Walled Room
1956 · Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
A Billionaire
1954 · Writer