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==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
===Kansai Period===
 
===Kansai Period===
1931: Oniroku Dan was born on April 16th to proprietors of the "Kinjoukan" movie house in Yonbanchou Dobashi in Hikone City, Shiga prefecture<ref name="kinjoukan">Dan, Oniroku. <i>The Snake Road: an Autobiography.</i> Tokyo: Gentosha, 1997. Print.</ref>. His father, Nobuyuki Kuroiwa, at one time aimed to be a screenwriter. His mother, Yukie Katori<ref group="note">Having divorced, she studied under Sanjuugo Naoki in 1927. Naoki was involved in movies at this time, and Katori played the starring role in "Nekkyuu Hatobu" (directed by Masao Hattori). She was also a contemporary of Sumiko Kurishima. Afterwards, Naoki sponsored the Yoshiko Okada Troupe. After the troupe disbanded, Katori became a leading actress for the Jusaburou Bandou Theatrical Company. After that company broke up, she married Kuroiwa, who was in the Matsutake script department.</ref>, was a former movie actress, and this was her second marriage. Katori was a former student of the novelist Sanjugo Naoki.
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1931: Oniroku Dan was born on April 16th to proprietors of the "Kinjoukan" movie house in Yonbanchou Dobashi in Hikone City, Shiga prefecture<ref name="kinjoukan">Dan, Oniroku. <i>The Snake Road: an Autobiography.</i> Tokyo: Gentosha, 1997. Print.</ref>. His father, Nobuyuki Kuroiwa, at one time aimed to be a screenwriter. His mother, Yukie Katori<ref group="note">Having divorced, she studied under Sanjuugo Naoki in 1927. Naoki was involved in movies at this time, and Katori played the starring role in "Nekkyuu Hatobu" (directed by Masao Hattori). She was also a contemporary of Sumiko Kurishima. Afterwards, Naoki sponsored the Yoshiko Okada Troupe. After the troupe disbanded, Katori became a leading actress for the Jusaburou Bandou Theatrical Company. After that company broke up, she married Kuroiwa, who was in the Matsutake script department.</ref>, was a former movie actress and a former student of the novelist Sanjugo Naoki. This was her second marriage. The family register records Oniroku as being born on September 1<ref group="note">Satou, Hitoshi. "Birth of the Author Oniroku Dan." <i>Oniroku Dan - Literature of Love and Pleasure</i>. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2000. Print.</ref>.
  
 
==Selected Works==
 
==Selected Works==

Revision as of 14:56, 2 September 2011

Oniroku Dan

Dan (団) family name, Oniroku (鬼六) first name, (1931-2011)

Activities

Alternate Name(s)

団鬼六(Japanese), Kuroiwa, Yukihiko (黒岩幸彦), Hanamaki, Kyotaro (花巻京太郎), Kuroiwa, Matsujiro (黒岩松次郎), Awaji, Syugo (淡路周五)

Biography

Kansai Period

1931: Oniroku Dan was born on April 16th to proprietors of the "Kinjoukan" movie house in Yonbanchou Dobashi in Hikone City, Shiga prefecture[1]. His father, Nobuyuki Kuroiwa, at one time aimed to be a screenwriter. His mother, Yukie Katori[note 1], was a former movie actress and a former student of the novelist Sanjugo Naoki. This was her second marriage. The family register records Oniroku as being born on September 1[note 2].

Selected Works

References

  1. Dan, Oniroku. The Snake Road: an Autobiography. Tokyo: Gentosha, 1997. Print.

Notes

  1. Having divorced, she studied under Sanjuugo Naoki in 1927. Naoki was involved in movies at this time, and Katori played the starring role in "Nekkyuu Hatobu" (directed by Masao Hattori). She was also a contemporary of Sumiko Kurishima. Afterwards, Naoki sponsored the Yoshiko Okada Troupe. After the troupe disbanded, Katori became a leading actress for the Jusaburou Bandou Theatrical Company. After that company broke up, she married Kuroiwa, who was in the Matsutake script department.
  2. Satou, Hitoshi. "Birth of the Author Oniroku Dan." Oniroku Dan - Literature of Love and Pleasure. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2000. Print.

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