was a Japanese novelist and author, born in Kumagaya. He is best known for the controversial ' (悪魔の飽食) (1981), which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
History
The Devil's Gluttony was serialized in the Shimbun Akahata (Japanese Communist Party's newspaper) in 1980, In the ensuing controversy, half of a photograph was discovered to be a fabrication, and Kobunsha subsequently withdrew the book. A second edition was then published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1983 with the controversial photograph removed.
Morimura won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1969 for Death in the High-Rise (高層の死角).
His short story "Devil of a Boy" appears translated into English in Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan anthology, which was edited by Ellery Queen.
Seiichi Morimura died of pneumonia on July 24, 2023, at the age of 90.
Adaptation
Television
- Fushoku no Kōzō (1977)
- Seishun no Shōmei (1978)
- Shūchakueki Series (1990-2022)
- Shikyaku Ukeoinin (2007, 2008)
Film
- Chō Kosō Hotel Satsuinjiken (1976)
- Proof of the Man (1977)
- Never Give Up (1978)
- Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007)
References
External links
- J'Lit | Authors : Seiichi Morimura | Books from Japan