Baku Yumemakura

Baku Yumemakura

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1951-01-01 (73 years old)

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Baku Yumemakura (夢枕 獏, Yumemakura Baku, born 1951 in Odawara, Kanagawa) is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. His works have sold more than 20 million copies in Japan spread across more than 280 titles and adapted into a variety of formats including feature films, television shows, movies and comic books.

His works are influenced by outdoor interests such as fishing, particularly Ayu fishing, mountain climbing, canoeing as well as manga, photography, pottery, art, calligraphy, martial arts. He has published a number of photo collections of his journeys through Nepalese mountains.

He is best known for writing Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi (The Lion that Ate the Crescent Moon), which won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award. He also has written film scripts, including the one to Onmyoji.

One of his popular martial arts serials that has been adapted into manga is "Garouden "餓狼伝" (legend of the hungry wolf), known in the west as "The legend of the fighting wolves" that has also two videogames to date.

He's been nicknamed "The artisan of violence" due to one of his popular martial arts novel series "Shishi no Mon" (獅子の門 Gate of fierce lions) and as of 2014 he's been working on the scripts of a manga series "Shin Garouden" with renown manga artist Masami Nobe

He is also a past president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan.

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Ratings

Average 5.57
Based on 25.1 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1985
1995
2007
2008
2023
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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1951-01-01 (73 years old)

Birth Place
Odawara, Japan

Citizenships
Japan

Also Known As
Баку Юмэмакура, 夢枕獏

Awards
Seiun Award for Best Comic, Seiun Award for Best Japanese Novel, Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, Shibata Renzaburō Award, Nihon SF Taisho Award, Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature


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