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Tonkô Horikawa

Tonkô Horikawa

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Biography

Horikawa Tonko was a Japanese TV drama director, producer, and movie director from Nakanojo Town, Agatsuma District, Gunma Prefecture. His wife is screenwriter Takagi Rin. He studied at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters. In 1958, he won the Ginkgo Namiki Award for his novel "Suna no Toei". He joined TBS after graduating from university. His representative work as a producer is "Kishibe no Album". In 1984, he won the Newcomer Award for Art Award. After that, he became a movie director and directed "Sennen no Koi: Hikaru Genji Monogatari" in 2001. After retiring from TBS, he belonged to the TV production company "Kazumo" represented by his senior Ohyama Katsumi, but became independent in 2006. He died at his home in Yugawara Town, Kanagawa Prefecture at the age of 82 on March 28, 2020, due to lung cancer.

Known For

Ri Kôran

Tells the story of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese woman born and raised in China during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. She debuts as the Chinese singer and actress Li Xianglan (Ri Kouran in Japanese), in the hopes that her efforts will work towards the benefit of both Japan and China. Hiding her true nationality, however, she slowly discovers herself becoming a puppet of the Japanese military's propaganda efforts in Manchuria, starring in "national policy" films that humiliate the Chinese people. But billed as the "star of Greater East Asia," her popularity soars across borders to Japan, where she holds a concert that draws thousands to the Nihon Gekijou Theatre and leads to a riot that injures several people. Based on her autobiography, this is the story of her personal struggle amidst military strife between her two homelands.

Ri Kôran

2007Movie