Japanese adaptation of Water Margin announced for film and television, Oda Yuji to play Song Jiang

Japanese adaptation of Water Margin announced for film and television, Oda Yuji to play Song Jiang

Today (September 12), the novel "Water Margin" by Shi Naian, adapted by Kitagawa Kenzo, was adapted into a film and television series. The stage is China in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and Oda Yuji plays the protagonist Song Jiang, the leader of Liangshanpo.

The Water Margin adapted by Kitagawa Kenzo is the first work in the Water Margin series (the latter two are The Biography of Yang Ling and The Biography of Yue Fei). It is 19 volumes long and contains 9,500 pages. It has been serialized in the monthly magazine Novel Subaru since 1999.

Kitagata Kenzo is a Japanese mystery and adventure writer. He was born in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture in 1947, but lives in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Chuo University. While studying, he published the pure literary novel "Bright Street" in 1970. In 1981, he officially became the new generation of hard-boiled successors with his work "Distant Bell" which mainly describes violent scenes. In 1982, he created "Sleepless Night", in which Inspector Takagi made his debut, and won both the first Japan Adventure Novel Association Award and the fourth Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award. In 1983, "The Threshold" published again won the second Japan Adventure Novel Association Award, and was also a candidate for the Naoki Award and the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award.

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