Naoki Urasawa
Writer, Actor
January 2, 1960 (66 years)
Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor, Takashi Nagasaki. Urasawa has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has won numerous awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once. By December 2021, his various works had over 140 million copies in circulation worldwide.
Filmography
| 2008 | 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End · as Screenplay |
| 1989 |
| 2007 | Bokura no jidai · as Self |
| 2006 | Professional: Shigoto no ryûgi · as Self |
| 2023 | PLUTO · as Original Story |
| 2013 | Mighty Boy · as Original Story |
| 2011 | The Tibetan Dog · as Character Designer |
| 2009 | 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption · as Comic Book |
| 2009 | 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope · as Comic Book |
| 2004 | Monster · as Comic Book |
| 1998 | Master Keaton · as Original Story |
| 1996 | Yawara! Zutto kimi no koto ga... · as Comic Book |
| 1992 | Yawara! Sore yuke koshinuke kizzu! · as Comic Book |