Juzo Itami , born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi , was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films, all of which he wrote himself.
Itami in 1992
Itami and Miyamoto in 1992
Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".
Ōe in 2012
Ōe at the Japanisches Kulturinstitut in Cologne on 11 April 2008
Book cover of the 1996 English version of Kenzaburō Ōe's book about his handicapped son and their life as a family.
Ōe at a 2013 antinuclear demonstration in Tokyo