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Place of Birth: Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
About Tōru Shinohara
- Toru Shinohara (?????, Shinohara Toru, born April 28, 1936) is a Japanese manga artist.He was born in Niihama, Ehime.
- After graduating from high school on March 1955, he started working at a factory in Osaka making car parts but quit after only ten months.
- He studied manga via a mail-offered course and wrote to various manga magazines.
- In 1958 came his first commercially printed work Fukumenhakushi (????) and he began his career as a manga artist. He is best known for Nippon Keibaden that detailed the history of Japan's horse racing industry and its horses.
- He is also known for beautiful amazon-like heroines who are never daunted by the hardship they endure.
- Since 1970, he has written a series of works titled Sasori, lit.
- scorpion, which is the name for a female inmate and heroine.
- Director Shunya Ito started a series of ten films starring Meiko Kaji based on the manga.
- However, Ito withdrew from the project after three, and Kaji four films.
- Many of his works have been turned into movies since 1972.
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