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Kôbô Abe (1924–1993)

Kôbô Abe set off to medical school to please his parents. While still a student, he became interested in writing, and managed to sell a short story to a magazine. He failed his medical exam twice, and asked to be spared dishonor and allowed to pass the third time, under the agreement that he would never practice medicine... See full bio »

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(age 68) in Tokyo, Japan

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Filmography

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2002 The Box Man (short) (inspired by the novel by / as Kobo Abe)
 
1988 Friends (play)
 
1974 A Poet's Life (short) (short story)
 
1968 The Man Without a Map (novel / screenplay)
 
1966 The Face of Another (novel / screenplay)
 
1965 White Morning (short) (original story)
 
1964 Woman in the Dunes (novel / screenplay)
 
1962 Pitfall (screenplay / story)
 
1956 Kabe atsuki heya (writer)
 
1954 A Billionaire
 
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Woman in the Dunes -- An amateur entomologist studies an unclassified species of beetle in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune.
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Alternate Names:

Kobo Abe
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