Minoru Komatsu (1931-01-28)January 28, 1931 Osaka, Japan
Died
July 26, 2011(2011-07-26) (aged 80) Minoh, Osaka, Japan
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
Japanese
Alma mater
Kyoto University
Genre
Science fiction
Subject
Futurology
Notable works
Japan Sinks
Notable awards
1985 Nihon SF Taisho Award
Sakyo Komatsu (小松 左京, Komatsu Sakyō, January 28, 1931 – July 26, 2011) was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter.[1] He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.[2]
^The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, page 676
^Komatsu topped in the writers ranking of All-Time Best survey of S-F Magazine in 2006. ("Hayakawa's SF Magazine's All-Time Best SF". March 10, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2011.)
Ritsuryo system. Names derived from Sakyoshiki SakyoKomatsu, a Japanese science fiction writer Sakyo, a YuYu Hakusho character Ukyo (disambiguation)...
Nippon Chinbotsu) is a disaster novel by Japanese writer SakyoKomatsu, published in 1973. Komatsu took nine years to complete the work. It was published...
Shiro Moritani in 1973. It is based on the 1973 novel Japan Sinks by SakyoKomatsu. The film stars Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka and Ayumi Ishida. Thirty...
by SakyoKomatsu, released as two volumes. It is a novelization of an early draft of the 1984 film of the same Japanese name, directed by Komatsu and...
Netflix series Japan Sinks: 2020 (2020), based on the disaster novel by SakyoKomatsu. Yuasa directed in conjunction with Pyeon-Gang Ho, who made her directorial...
Conway directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a 1964 novel written by SakyoKomatsu. Hotwire Farley & Harley Fontenot 1981 Just Before Dawn Roy McLean directed...
no Hi), directed by Kinji Fukasaku and based on a novel written by SakyoKomatsu. His role required him to play a piano while singing a Spanish ballad...
parody of this film, released the same year "WOWOW アニメと実写で「日本沈没」スペシャル". SakyoKomatsu.jp (in Japanese). July 19, 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2024. "Doomsday:...
After the completion of the tower, a Japanese science fiction writer, SakyoKomatsu, looked at it and said he associated it with a sexual description in...
short story collection) Daniel Keyes, "Flowers for Algernon" (1959) SakyoKomatsu, "Shigatsu Juyokkakan" (1974) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Alfred...
Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan, Haikasoru, 2014) 2003 – SakyoKomatsu Award: Kasei Daku Barado (Mars Dark Ballade) 2011 – Japan SF Award:...
be an unpublished piece written by the famous science fiction author SakyoKomatsu, but there is no evidence to link the author to the legend. A Ukrainian...
circulation in late 1980s and is first used to describe adaptations of SakyoKomatsu's Japan Sinks,[clarification needed] but the origins of the strategy...
Year We Make Contact as well as the 1982 novel Sayonara Jupiter by SakyoKomatsu and its 1984 film adaptation Bye-Bye Jupiter, an idea that was later...
Harris, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1948) 2011 – SakyoKomatsu, Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1931) 2011 – Margaret Olley, Australian...
Will Take Over? (継ぐのは誰か?, Tsugu no wa Dare ka?) SakyoKomatsu Sekai SF Zenshū Vol.29: SakyoKomatsu, Hayakawa Publishing 1972 The Bloodline of the Stone...
(Turner Broadcasting System / Time Warner). Retrieved November 30, 2016. Komatsu, Sakyo (2012). Virus: The Day of Resurrection (1st (English version) ed.)....
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