Ryūzō Saki

Ryūzō Saki
Native name	佐さ木き 隆三りゅうぞう
Born	Ryozo Kosaki (1937-04-14)April 14, 1937 Onsong County, North Hamgyong Province, Korea under Japanese rule
Died	October 31, 2015(2015-10-31) (aged 78) Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Non-fiction writer Honorary director of the Kitakyushi City Museum of Literature Former visiting professor at Kyushu International University
Language	Japanese
Genre	Non-fiction novel
Years active	1961–2015
Notable works	Vengeance is Mine (復讐ふくしゅうするは我がにあり, Fukushū suru wa Ware ni ari)
Notable awards	74th Naoki Prize
Japanese name
Kanji	佐さ木き 隆三りゅうぞう
Kana	さき りゅうぞう
Transcriptions Romanization Saki Ryūzō

Ryūzō Saki (佐さ木き 隆三りゅうぞう, Saki Ryūzō, April 14, 1937 – October 31, 2015) was a Japanese novelist and non-fiction writer, born in North Hamgyong, a province of what is now North Korea. He was interested in high-profile crimes in Japan and published a number of non-fiction books about Japanese crimes.

On January 14, 1976, Saki was awarded the Naoki Prize for the novel Vengeance Is Mine based on Japanese serial killer Akira Nishiguchi. The novel became the basis of Shohei Imamura's film Vengeance Is Mine. He also wrote the books about Norio Nagayama, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Fusako Sano and Futoshi Matsunaga.

In 1992, Saki published a book about Japanese Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi and Korean An Jung-geun, titled Itō Hirobumi to An Jung-geun.

On 1 November 2015, he died from throat cancer in Kitakyūshū at age 78.

External links

• Ryūzō Saki at IMDb