Kōbō Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kōbō), pen name of Kimifusa Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kimifusa, March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993), was a Japanese writer, playwright, musician...

Hepburn: Suna no Onna, lit. "Sand Woman") is a novel by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, published in 1962. It won the 1962 Yomiuri Prize for literature, and an...

Ishii. The film is adaptation of 1973 eponymous novel by Japanese author Kōbō Abe. It is surreal story in which a cardboard box becomes the perfect shell...

The Box Man is a novel by Kobo Abe, originally published in Japanese in 1973 as Hako Otoko, based on a man wearing a cardboard box and his observations...

Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the 1964 novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe. The story follows engineer Okuyama, who suffers severe facial burns in...

nominated for two Academy Awards. The screenplay for the film was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his 1962 novel. The movie is now considered to be Teshigahara's masterpiece...

Teshigahara, written by Kōbō Abe. It was Teshigahara's first feature, and the first of his four film collaborations with Abe, the others being Woman in...

Kobo or Kōbō may refer to the following notable people: Given name Kōbō Abe (1924–1993), pseudonym of Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor...

Abe (阿部 健太, born 1984), Japanese baseball player Kinya Abe (安部 欣哉, born 1969), Japanese fencer Kōbō Abe (安部 公房, 1924–1993), pen name of Kimifusa Abe,...

20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa Tomodachi, an award-winning play by Kōbō Abe Tomodachi, a chapter in volume one of the One Piece manga by Eiichiro Oda...

God. In February 1967, Mishima joined fellow authors Yasunari Kawabata, Kōbō Abe, and Jun Ishikawa in issuing a statement condemning China's Cultural Revolution...

July 774 – 22 April 835), born Saeki no Mao (佐伯 眞魚), posthumously called Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師, "The Grand Master who Propagated the Dharma"), was a Japanese...

Ruined Map (燃え尽きた地図 Moetsukita chizu, 1967) is a novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe, translated into English by E. Dale Saunders for Knopf in 1969. The Ruined...

Hepburn: Tanin no kao) is a 1964 novel written by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. Like other stories written by this author, the novel explores the alienation...

directed his first feature film, Pitfall (1962), in collaboration with author Kōbō Abe and musician Toru Takemitsu. The film won the NHK New Director's award...

Sakura (方舟さくら丸 Hakobune Sakura-maru) is a novel by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. The novel's protagonist is a recluse who, convinced that the world will...

horror." The New York Times compared it to the novels of Samuel Beckett and Kobo Abe, saying "Ogawa's ruminant style captures the alienation of being alive...

Dai-Yon Kampyōki) is an early science fiction novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe originally serialized in the journal Sekai from 1958 to 1959. In 1970 the...

Japanese into English include the works of Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kōbō Abe, and Natsume Sōseki. Nathan is also an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer...

literature of Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Leo Tolstoy, Marquis de Sade, Kōbō Abe, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, and Isaac Bashevis Singer; she brought...

Notebook (カンガルー・ノート, Kangarū Nōto) is a novel written by the Japanese writer Kōbō Abe between ca. 1973 – 1977 and published in 1991. One morning, while pondering...

in order to portray present human fate. Avant-garde writers, such as Kōbō Abe, who wrote novels such as The Woman in the Dunes (1960), wanted to express...

screenplay was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his novel The Ruined Map. This was the fifth and final film collaboration between Teshigahara and Abe. Shintaro Katsu –...

Secret Rendezvous (密会, Mikkai) is a 1977 novel by Kōbō Abe. In the middle of the night, an ambulance arrives to take away a woman who appears to be completely...

which would, in turn, affect Murakami. Since childhood, Murakami, like Kōbō Abe, has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western as...

wo mezasu, 1957) is an early autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe. It was translated into English, with an introduction, by Richard F. Calichman...

Philip K. Dick (e.g., A Scanner Darkly) Maccio Capatonda Kurt Vonnegut Kōbō Abe Daniil Kharms Osamu Dazai Boris Vian (e.g., Froth on the Daydream) Individual...

Natsume Ryunosuke Akutagawa Junichiro Tanizaki Osamu Dazai Yukio Mishima Kobo Abe Yasunari Kawabata Kenzaburo Oe Numerous notable literary figures have attended...

clockbug, or eupcaccia, is a fictional insect created by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe that features in his 1984 novel, The Ark Sakura. The clockbug is an insect...

Kobo, the Li'l Rascal, also known as Kobo-chan (コボちゃん), is a manga created by Masashi Ueda. Kodansha published three volumes of the manga as a bilingual...