About Yamanouchi Hisashi

After graduating from Tokyo University’s foreign studies department in 1950, Yamanouchi joined Shochiku Ofuna Studio’s script department but left in 1959 to become a freelancer. In 1991, he became the chairman of the Japanese Scenario Writer’s Association until 1997, but was reappointed in 2001 through 2005. In 2015, he passed away at the age of 90 from old age.