Director

Michinori Fukao

Writing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 1429885

IMDb ID: nm0297932

Known for: Writing

Born: June 26, 1936

Died: September 22, 2023

Age: 87

Place of birth: Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1968 - 1977

Years active: 10

Average TMDB rating: 7.39

Wikidata: Q133735592

Also known as

深尾道典 • Douten Fukao • Dōten Fukao

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Director (2)Screenplay (2)Writer (1)

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Biography

Dōten Fukao (given name: Michinori Fukao) was a scenario writer. He served as a director of the Japan Scenario Writers Association, among others, and won the Kinema Junpo Screenplay Award in 1968 for the film "Death by Hanging", which he co-wrote with Nagisa Oshima and others. Fukao graduated from Waseda University's School of Literature in 1961. He went on to join Toei and worked at the Kyoto Studio. He wrote screenplays, plays, radio dramas, etc. while assistant director. There are also a number of published screenplay collections consisting of his unfilmed scenarios.

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