Norio Nanjo

Norio Nanjo was born on Nov 14, 1908 in Japan. Norio Nanjo's big-screen debut came with The Inheritance directed by Masaki Kobayashi in 1962. Norio Nanjo is known for The Inheritance directed by Masaki Kobayashi, Keiko Kishi stars as Yasuko and Tatsuya Nakadai as Kikuo Furukawa. The upcoming new movie Norio Nanjo plays is The Inheritance which will be released on Feb 24, 1964.

Graduated in the Tokyo Imperial University, debuted in 1951 with a novel awarded by the Weekly Asahi, confirmed in 1953 with another award for his work "Lord Protector of Child". From 1958 his novels have been converted into films, beginning with "Nagareboshi Jûshi Uchihishigareru" ("Battered Crossed Star"). His most adapted novels were jidai-geki, being the most outstanding in 1963 "Daisan no Kagemusha" ("The Third Shadow"), "Bushidô Zankoku Monogatari" ("Bushido Cruel Story") and above all "Murasaki Ukyonosuke", a film in two parts starring Hashizo Okawa playing moustached Murasaki. In 1975 another of his novels, "Genroku Taiheiki", was also transformed in a TV Series.