Kazuhiro Kiuchi

Kazuhiro Kiuchi (きうちかずひろ [木内一裕], Kiuchi Kazuhiro, born September 14, 1960 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, film director and novelist. As a manga writer, he is best known for the series Be-Bop High School, which won the 1988 Kodansha Manga Award for the general category^[2] and was adapted as series of live-action movies and as a 7 episode anime OVA series. He was director of one segment of Killers.

Manga series[edit]

• Be-Bop High School (1983–2003)
• Saru Banchō (1996–1997)
• MI-4 (1998–1999)

Films[edit]

• Karurosu (1991)
• Be-Bop High School (1994)
• Joker (1996)
• Tetsu to Namari (1997)
• Kyōhansha (1999)
• Pay Off (Killers) (2003)
• Out and Out (2018)

Novels[edit]

• Wara no Tate (藁の楯), 2004 (Film: Shield of Straw, directed by Takashi Miike, 2013)
  • English translation: Shield of Straw, translated by Asumi Shibata, Vertical, 2016
• Mizu no Naka no Inu (水の中の犬), 2007
  • English translation: A Dog in Water, translated by Maya Rosewood, Vertical, 2013
• Auto ando Auto (Out & Out) (アウト&アウト), 2009
• Kiddo (Kid) (キッド), 2010
• Deddobōru (Dead Ball) (デッドボール), 2011
• Kamisama no Okurimono (神様の贈り物), 2012
• Kenka-Zaru (喧嘩猿), 2013

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official page on Facebook (in Japanese)
• Profile at The Ultimate Manga Site Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
• Kazuhiro Kiuchi at Vertical Inc

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