• Kōbō Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kōbō), pen name of Kimifusa Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kimifusa, March 7, 1924 – January 23, 1993), was a Japanese writer, playwright, musician...
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  • Ishii. The film is adaptation of 1973 eponymous novel by Japanese author Kōbō Abe. It is surreal story in which a cardboard box becomes the perfect shell...
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  • The Woman in the Dunes (category Novels by Kobo Abe)
    Hepburn: Suna no Onna, lit. "Sand Woman") is a novel by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, published in 1962. It won the 1962 Yomiuri Prize for literature, and an...
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  • Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the 1964 novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe. The story follows engineer Okuyama, who suffers severe facial burns in...
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  • nominated for two Academy Awards. The screenplay for the film was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his 1962 novel of the same name. The film is now considered to be...
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  • John (2020-11-17). "The Ruined Map, Secret Rendezvous and The Box Man by Kōbō Abe – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-16. Shafer,...
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  • Teshigahara, written by Kōbō Abe. It was Teshigahara's first feature, and the first of his four film collaborations with Abe, the others being Woman in...
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  • 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa Tomodachi, an award-winning play by Kōbō Abe Tomodachi, a chapter in volume one of the One Piece manga by Eiichiro Oda...
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  • Stick (棒になった男 – Bō ni natta otoko) is a one-act play written in 1957 by Kōbō Abe. It is the first of three plays written between 1957 and 1969 meant to...
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  • The Ruined Map (category Novels by Kobo Abe)
    Ruined Map (燃え尽きた地図 Moetsukita chizu, 1967) is a novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, translated into English by E. Dale Saunders for Knopf in 1969. The Ruined...
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  • screenplay was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his novel The Ruined Map. This was the fifth and final film collaboration between Teshigahara and Abe. Shintaro Katsu –...
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    vain. In February 1967, Mishima joined fellow authors Yasunari Kawabata, Kōbō Abe, and Jun Ishikawa in issuing a statement condemning China's Cultural Revolution...
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  • Kobo or Kōbō may refer to the following notable people: Given name Kōbō Abe (1924–1993), pseudonym of Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor...
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  • Abe (阿部 健太, born 1984), Japanese baseball player Kinya Abe (安部 欣哉, born 1969), Japanese fencer Kōbō Abe (安部 公房, 1924–1993), pen name of Kimifusa Abe,...
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  • The Face of Another (category Novels by Kobo Abe)
    Hepburn: Tanin no kao) is a 1964 novel written by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. Like other stories written by this author, the novel explores the alienation...
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  • Inter Ice Age 4 (category Novels by Kobo Abe)
    Dai-Yon Kampyōki) is an early science fiction novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe originally serialized in the journal Sekai from 1958 to 1959. In 1970 the...
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    Philip K. Dick (e.g., A Scanner Darkly) Maccio Capatonda Kurt Vonnegut Kōbō Abe Daniil Kharms Osamu Dazai Boris Vian (e.g., Froth on the Daydream) Terry...
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  • Kangaroo Notebook (category Novels by Kobo Abe)
    Notebook (カンガルー・ノート, Kangarū Nōto) is a novel written by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe between ca. 1973 – 1977 and published in 1991. One morning, while pondering...
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  • The Ark Sakura (category Novels by Kobo Abe)
    Sakura (方舟さくら丸 Hakobune Sakura-maru) is a novel by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. The novel's protagonist is a recluse who, convinced that the world will...
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  • Japanese into English include the works of Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kōbō Abe, and Natsume Sōseki. Nathan is also an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer...
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    literature of Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Leo Tolstoy, Marquis de Sade, Kōbō Abe, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, and Isaac Bashevis Singer; she brought...
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    Wandrei Howard Wandrei H. G. Wells Edward Lucas White Henry S. Whitehead Kōbō Abe Robert Aickman J. G. Ballard Charles Beaumont Olympe Bhely-Quenum Jerome...
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    Expressway C2 Central Loop (Itabashi JCT – Kasai JCT) Route 17 (Nakasendō) Kōbō Abe, Japanese writer, playwright, musician, photographer, inventor and novelist...
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    Kūkai (redirect from Kōbō Daishi)
    July 774 – 22 April 835), born Saeki no Mao (佐伯 眞魚), posthumously called Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師, "The Grand Master who Propagated the Dharma"), was a Japanese...
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  • directed his first feature film, Pitfall (1962), in collaboration with author Kōbō Abe and musician Toru Takemitsu. The film won the NHK New Director's award...
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  • Secret Rendezvous (novel) (category Novels by Kobo Abe)
    Secret Rendezvous (密会, Mikkai) is a 1977 novel by Kōbō Abe. In the middle of the night, an ambulance arrives to take away a woman who appears to be completely...
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    in order to portray present human fate. Avant-garde writers, such as Kōbō Abe, who wrote novels such as The Woman in the Dunes (1960), wanted to express...
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  • possible connection to traditional novelists from his own country like Kōbō Abe, Yukio Mishima or Yasunari Kawabata, Japan's only Nobel laureate in literature...
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    the Vasanta Mala dance company to accompany the stage production of the Kōbō Abe novel of the same name. It premiered at the ICA in the summer of 2000....
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  • company affiliated with the Shochiku studio. The screenplay was written by Kōbō Abe, based on actual diaries of jailed Japanese soldiers which had been published...
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