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Baku Yumemakura was born on 1 January, 1951 in Japan Odawara, Kanagawa, is an A japanese science fiction writer. Discover Baku Yumemakura's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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73 years old |
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Capricorn |
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1 January 1951 |
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1 January |
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Japan Odawara, Kanagawa |
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Japan
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Baku Yumemakura Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Baku Yumemakura Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Baku Yumemakura worth at the age of 73 years old? Baku Yumemakura’s income source is mostly from being a successful Author. He is from Japan. We have estimated Baku Yumemakura's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Baku Yumemakura (夢枕 獏) is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer.
His works have sold more than 20 million copies in Japan spread across more than 280 titles and adapted into a variety of formats including feature films, television shows, movies and comic books.
His works are influenced by outdoor interests such as fishing, particularly Ayu fishing, mountain climbing, canoeing as well as manga, photography, pottery, art, calligraphy, martial arts.
He has published a number of photo collections of his journeys through Nepalese mountains.
He is best known for writing Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi (The Lion that Ate the Crescent Moon), which won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award.
He also has written film scripts, including the one to Onmyoji.
One of his popular martial arts serials that has been adapted into manga is "Garouden "餓狼伝" (legend of the hungry wolf), known in the west as "The legend of the fighting wolves" that has also two videogames to date.
Baku Yumemakura was born on January 1, 1951, in Odawara-shi.
At the age of 22, he graduated from Tokai University with a degree in Japanese literature.
In 1975, he visited Nepal for the first time; the region would become host to one of his most popular works, The Summit of the Gods, which became a French-made anime film in 2021, Le Sommet des Dieux.
In 1977, his first works were published in the science fiction coterie magazines Neo Null curated by Yasutaka Tsutsui and Uchūjin curated by Takumi Shibano.
A typographic experiment story titled Kaeru no Shi, dubbed as "Typografiction", was published in Neo Null and received a great deal of attention within the industry; it was reprinted in the science fiction magazine Kisou Tengai, which became his first appearance in commercial magazine.
He followed this success by releasing the novella Kyojin Den and enjoyed enough success to become a full-time author.
His first standalone title was published in 1979, Nekohiki no Oruorane, in the Shueisha Cobalt Collection.
His first full-length novel, Genjū Henge, was published two years later by Futabasha Corporation.
Then, in 1982, the first volume of the Kimaira Kou Series, Genjū Shōnen Kimaira, was published by Asahi Sonorama Paperbacks, with cover and illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano.
The Majūgari trilogy was published by Shodensha in 1984.
Over the span of his career, Baku Yumemakura worked with a wide range of historically important figures in the Japanese art scene.
The following works have been released in Japan.
He's been nicknamed "The artisan of violence" due to one of his popular martial arts novel series "Shishi no Mon" (獅子の門 Gate of fierce lions) and as of 2014 he's been working on the scripts of a manga series "Shin Garouden" with renown manga artist Masami Nobe
He is also a past president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan.
