
Kazuhiro Kiuchi
Writing
Biography
Kazuhiro Kiuchi 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 shōnen and was adapted as series of live-action movies and as a 7 episode anime OVA series.
Known For

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
Shield of Straw

For the invincible and basically happy punk lads Hiroshi and Toru, what they care about every day is to get a lot of attention from girls and to win the fights against the lads from other schools. Whenever provoked, they just go out fighting and settle the situation no matter what it costs.
Be-Bop High School

An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.
Be-Bop High School

This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.
The Accomplice

Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school.
Be-Bop High School 2

At Aitoku High School, repeat sophomores Kōji Katō and Tōru Nakama are bruiser fighters who scorn any flashy titles. They pursue honor student Kyōko Izumi alongside their loyal crew. When rival gang leader Teru’s “bontan-gari” attacks sweep through the district, even Aitoku’s toughest, including Kintarō and Junpei, fall prey, until Kōji and Tōru themselves are targeted and Kyōko is kidnapped by Teru…
Be-Bop High School

A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him, and the friendship that develops as they work together.
Steel & Lead

Masao Yano was once a high ranking member of the biggest yakuza group in Japan. He left the yakuza and now runs a private detective office with a young girl Shiori Kuroki. She is in the second grade of elementary school. One day, he gets a phone call for his assistance. He goes out to meet his client, but he finds his client dead.
Out & Out

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Be-Bop High School 2

A heated argument between middle school thugs leads to a fierce war between two rival high schools when Toru's girlfriend, Shoko, gets involved.
Be-Bop Highschool: The Power

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
Carlos

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Be-Bop High School

This is a quarrel of abandoned gangsters and stubbornness.
Be-Bop High School 6

A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escalates to an all-out war between everyone involved.
Be-Bop High School: A Delinquent Student March

A man and a woman get mixed up with yakuza.
Joker

Fighting is strong but female is weak, Toru & Hiroshi rampage over a female college student!
Be-Bop High School 2

With thugs under gang leader Shingo attempting to make a name for themselves, Toru and crew must brace for an all-out war between their two schools.
Be-Bop Highschool Pt. 5

As a new Be-Bop, the degree of tightness is raised.
Be-Bop High School 4

College student Mayumi takes a mutual interest in Hiroshi, but their happiness is cut short when two thugs expelled from school eye the new couple.
Be-Bop High School: A Dunce Rhapsody

Toru and Hiroshi heard that if you bring the runaway girl back, you will get a lot of thanks, but again you get into trouble with a woman.