Takehiko Minato
Screenwriter
- Date of Birth
- March 5, 1974
- Career
- Takehiko Minato is a member of Japan Writers Guild. He graduated from Japan Academy of the Moving Image – it has been renamed Japan Institute of the Moving Image – where he was in the seventh graduating class. In 2006 he debuted as a playwright with “Sumo Hot Pot: Chanko”, which Toshiki Sato directed. Since then he has been active in writing screenplays mainly for theatrical movies. He is from Miyazaki Prefecture.
Outstanding works
| Category | Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| screenplay (live action) | 2006 | Sumo Hot Pot: Chanko | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2010 | The Knot | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2012 | Be My Slave | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2012 | Night People | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2014 | Girl’s Blood | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2014 | Flower and Snake: Zero | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2016 | Bitter Honey | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2016 | The Firefly Summers | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2017 | Wilderness: Part 1 and 2 | |
| screenplay (live action) | 2019 | Miyamoto |
Awards List
| Year | Title of Award | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Otomo Shoji Prize by Japan Writers Guild (Boku ga Kono Machi de Shinda Koto Nanka Ano Hito wa Shiranai | They do Not Know the Fact That I Died in This Town |
| 2008 | Accepted for the Fourth Pink Scenario Concours, Selected for Representative Scenario Yearbook 2009 | Isaac |