Ryūzō Saki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ryūzō Saki

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1937

Place of Birth: North Hamgyong Province, North Korea

Date of Death: 31-Oct-2015

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Ryuzo Saki (?? ??, Saki Ryuzo, 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 Ito Hirobumi and Korean An Jung-geun, titled Ito Hirobumi to An Jung-geun.On 1 November 2015, he died from throat cancer in Kitakyushu at age 78.