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Michi Shirakawa

しらかわ とおる

Shirakawa Tooru

Pen Names: Michi Shirakawa（Pen name used for writing）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1945-10-19 （Beiping, Republic of China (now Beijing, China)）
Died
2015-04-22 （Tokyo, Japan） age 69
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
1994-2015
Influenced By
Osamu Dazai

Education

Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences / Department of Sociology
Country: Japan

Awards

Yamamoto Shugoro Award Nominee
2001
Work: Stairway to Heaven
Organization: Yamamoto Shugoro Award Committee
Result: Nominee

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Feast of the Shooting Stars

1994 Hardboiled

Debut work.

CrimeLifeAnguish

Stairway to Heaven

2001 Hardboiled

A representative work that was adapted into a television drama series of the same name.

RevengeHuman Drama
Adaptations
  • [TV Drama] Stairway to Heaven (2002)

Riding Alone for Thousands of Kilometers

2005 Hardboiled

Novelization based on a Chinese film.

TravelAdventure

The Most Distant Galaxy

2009 Hardboiled

A work that was adapted into a television drama.

LifeFate
Adaptations
  • [TV Drama] The Most Distant Galaxy (2013)

Bibliography

  • Feast of the Shooting Stars
  • The Sea Had Dried Up
  • Cut Glass
  • Falling Sick Leaves
  • Stairway to Heaven
  • Overwhelmed and Confused
  • Withered Petals: Falling Sick Leaves II
  • What I Think on the Day of Collapse: Falling Sick Leaves III
  • Terminal Station
  • December Sunflower
  • Riding Alone for Thousands of Kilometers
  • The Art of Lies for Adults
  • The Most Distant Galaxy
  • Dragon Path: Flight Chapter
  • Alone: An Early Will
  • Always Alone When Praying
  • Winter Fairy Tale
  • No Morality: Me Alone
  • Sacrifice Yourself: New Falling Sick Leaves
  • Rising Tide: New Falling Sick Leaves
  • Drifting But Not Sinking: New Falling Sick Leaves
  • Toward the Torrent: New Falling Sick Leaves
  • The First Sound in the World
  • The God Descends
  • Dragon Path: Ascending Dragon Chapter

Adaptations

  • Film "Kizuna - Bonds -"
  • TV Drama "Stairway to Heaven"
  • TV Drama "The Most Distant Galaxy"
  • TV Drama "Dragon Path: Avenger with Two Faces"

Style & Themes

Literary Style
HardboiledNon-affiliated
Recurring Motifs
RevengeLonelinessHuman Drama

Health

  • Ruptured aortic aneurysm
    Died in 2015 due to ruptured aortic aneurysm.

Legacy

Known as a new leader in hardboiled literature, his representative works attracted attention through several media mix adaptations.

Trivia

  • He was an avid fan of keirin bicycle racing.
  • He had a common-law marriage with Yukari Nakase, former editor-in-chief of Shincho 45.
  • He was arrested in 1991 on charges of fraud.
  • His representative work "Stairway to Heaven" was adapted into a TV drama.