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May 01, 1902 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Died on 05 Jul 1985 (aged 83)
Japanese writer
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About Ken Kuronuma
- Ken Kuronuma (???, Kuronuma Ken); (1 May 1902 – 5 July 1985) was the pen-name of novelist, science fiction, and mystery writer in Showa period Japan.
- His real name was Soda Michio (?????).
- His father, Soda Kiichiro (??????), was an economist and a banker. Kuronuma was the writer of the Kaiju classic Giant Monster of the Sky: Rodan (known in Japan as Sora no Daikaiju: Radon (????? ???, Sora no Daikaiju Radon)), a 1956 tokusatsu film produced by Toho Studios.
- The film followed in the footsteps of Godzilla and was also popular in the United States. He followed on the success of Rodan with Varan the Unbelievable in 1958.
- It proved to be one of the least popular of the Toho movies of all time, and nearly destroyed his career. Kuronuma turned his attention to television drama, writing scripts for one of Japan's first science fiction series, Undersea Man 8823 (???8823, Kaiteijin 8823), which ran for 26 episodes: from 3 January 1960 to 28 June 1960.
- In addition to writing for the series, he also helped to compose the music.
