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Tōru Shinohara
篠原とおる
Born (1936-04-28) April 28, 1936 (age 88)
Niihama, Ehime Japan
NationalityJapanese
Area(s)manga artist
Notable worksScorpion (『さそり』)
Japanese Horse Racing (『にっぽん競馬伝』)
Wani Branch (『ワニ分署』)
Kawachi Zankyoden Shamo (『河内残侠伝 軍鶏』)

Tōru Shinohara (篠原とおる, Shinohara Tōru, born April 28, 1936) is a Japanese manga artist.

He was born in Niihama, Ehime. After graduating from high school in 1955, he started working at a factory in Osaka making car parts but quit after only ten months. He studied manga via a mail-offered course and wrote to various manga magazines. In 1958, came his first commercially printed work Fukumenhakushi (覆面博士) and he began his career as a manga artist.

He is best known for Nippon Keibaden that detailed the history of Japan's horse racing industry and its horses. He is also known for beautiful amazon-like heroines who are never daunted by the hardship they endure. Since 1970, he has written a series of works titled Sasori, lit. scorpion, which is the name for a female inmate and heroine. Director Shunya Ito started a series of ten films starring Meiko Kaji based on the manga. However, Ito withdrew from the project after three, and Kaji four films. Many of his works have been turned into movies since 1972.

Biography

1955

  • After graduating from Ehime Prefectural Niihama Technical High School, he joined an automobile parts factory in Osaka, but left after 10 months, and while taking correspondence courses at the Manga Art Academy, he submitted his work to magazines.

1958

  • "Masked Doctor" was first published by Doshinsha.

1962

1967

  • He started drawing manga with female protagonists, such as "Female Leopard Mako", "Human Insect Chronicle", and "Slutty Detective Ran".

1970

  • Serialized "Sasori" in "Big Comic" (Shogakukan), featuring a female prisoner as the main character. Established a style of writing that focused on suspense and action.

1972

  • "Sasori" was made into a film at Toei Tokyo Studios. Became a huge hit, becoming a series. In 1971, "0-ka no Onna: Akai Tecchu|0-ka no Onna" was serialized in Leed Publishing's Leed Comics, and in 1979, "Kani Bunsho" was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Playboy, and was made into a film, making him known as the original author of pinky violence films.

1973

  • He was active as a main writer from the launch of "Big Comic Original", but the depiction of murder in the 100th chapter of "Noctiluca", "Abnormal Infant Heartbeat", published in the October 20, 1979 issue, drew strong protests from the "National Conference of the Liberation Movement for the Disabled" (Zenshoren), and the story was cancelled. The original author, "Kakinuma Hiroshi", stopped writing.

After 1974

  • He was mainly active at Leed Publishing. He serialized "Female Executioner Zebra" in the evening newspaper "Yukan Fuji". Since the 1990s, many of his past Pinky Violence works have been made into V-cinema, including remakes of "Sasori", "Zero Section Woman" and "Wani Branch".

Style

He is a pioneer and a leading figure in heroine/action manga, and many of his works have been adapted to film, but none of them have been made into anime. Many of his films are pinky violence with an emphasis on grudges, and the original manga also had a similar tendency in the early stages, but after the aforementioned "Noctiluca" incident, his works have become more prominent with bright sex appeal and entertainment elements.

He has consistently portrayed strong and wise female protagonists, and his men are usually portrayed as villains, incompetent, or at best, slightly absent-minded ally figures.

List of works

  • Fukumen Hakushi (覆面博士)
  • Mehyo Mako (女豹マコ)
  • Zubeko Tantei Ran (ズベ公探偵ラン)
  • Nippon Keibaden (にっぽん競馬伝)
  • Teinen Shokun (定年諸君)
  • Toko (陶子)
  • Kariudobachi (狩人蜂)
  • Sasori (さそり)
  • Kauchi Zankyoden Shamo (河内残侠伝軍鶏)
  • Yadokari (やどかり)
  • Onna Toji Sayaka (女刀師サヤカ)
  • Garando (がらんどう)
  • Zero-ka no Onna (O課の女)
  • Yakochu (夜光虫)
  • Wanibunsho / 82-bunsho (ワニ分署 / 82分署)
  • Keiji Anko (刑事あんこう)
  • Shokuchuka (食虫花)
  • Hikuidori (火喰鳥)
  • Ginsasa (銀笹)
  • Suna (砂)
  • Onna Shiokinin ZEBRA (女仕置き人ZEBRA)

Film and stage adaptations

Original work "Sasori"

Original work: O-ka no Onna

  • Theatrical Release For details, see Zero Woman
    • Zero-ka no Onna: Red Handcuffs (1974)
    • Zero Woman Woman of the Metropolitan Police Department's Zero Section (1995)
    • Zero Woman R Woman of the Metropolitan Police Department's Zero Section/The Price of Desire (2007)
  • New Zero Woman Series (Original Video)
    • Zero Woman II Woman of the Metropolitan Police Department's Zero Section (1995)
    • Zero Woman III Woman of the Metropolitan Police Department's Zero Section (1996)
    • Zero Woman: Woman with no name (1996)
    • Zero Woman: Unforgettable Memories (1997)
    • Zero Woman: Dangerous Play (1998)
    • Zero Woman: The Final Order (1998)
    • New Zero Woman: Woman of the Zero Section Returns... (2004)

Original work: "Wani Branch"

Original work Detective Anglerfish

Original work Codename 348 Sashiba

Original work: "Female Executioner Zebra"

  • 'V Cinema and original video
    • Female Executioner Zebra: Sexy version (1990, SHS Project)
    • Female Executioner Zebra: Action version (1990, SHS Project)

Original work: "Kawachi Zankyoden: Shamo"

  • 'V Cinema and original video
    • Kawachi Zankyoden: Shamo (1991, Toei Video)

References

  1. Desjardins, Chris (2005). Outlaw masters of Japanese film. I.B.Tauris. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-1-84511-086-4. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

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