was a Japanese novelist and author, born in Kumagaya. He is best known for the controversial (悪魔の飽食) (1981), which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
History The Devil's Gluttony was serialized in the Shimbun Akahata (Japanese Communist Party's newspaper) in 1980, and subsequently published by Kobunsha (光文社), in two volumes in 1981 and 1982. In the ensuing controversy, half of a photograph was discovered to be a fabrication, and Kobunsha subsequently withdrew the book. A second edition was then published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1983 with the controversial photograph removed.
Morimura won the Edogawa Rampo Prize in 1969 for Death in the High-Rise (高層の死角).
His short story "Devil of a Boy" appears translated into English in Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen: The Detective Story World in Japan anthology, which was edited by Ellery Queen.
Seiichi Morimura died of pneumonia on July 24, 2023, at the age of 90.Award-Winning Novelist Seiichi Morimura Dies at 90
Adaptation Television Fushoku no Kōzō (1977) Seishun no Shōmei (1978) Shūchakueki Series (1990-2022) Shikyaku Ukeoinin (2007, 2008)
Film Chō Kosō Hotel Satsuinjiken (1976) Proof of the Man (1977) Never Give Up (1978) Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007)
References
External links J'Lit | Authors : Seiichi Morimura | Books from Japan