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; (1 May 1902 - 5 July 1985) was the pen-name of a novelist, science fiction writer, and mystery writer in Showa period Japan. His real name was Soda Michio (左右田道雄). His father, Soda Kiichiro (左右田喜一郎), was an economist and a banker. Kuronuma was the writer of the ''Kaiju'' classic ''Giant Monster of the Sky: Rodan'' (known in Japan as ), a 1956 ''tokusatsu'' film produced by Tōhō Studios. The film followed in the footsteps of Godzilla and was also popular in the United States. He followed on the tremendous success of ''Rodan'' with ''Varan the Unbelievable'' in 1958. It proved to be one of the least popular of the Tōhō movies of all time, and nearly destroyed his career. Kuronuma turned his attention to television drama, writing the scripts for one of Japan's first science fiction series, , which ran for 26 episodes from 3 January 1960 to 28 June 1960. In addition to writing the scripts for the series, he also helped to compose the music. ==See also== * List of Japanese authors ==References== *Bush, Lawrence C. ''Asian Horror Encyclopedia: Asian Horror Culture in Literature, Manga, and Folklore''. Writers Club Press (2001) ISBN 1469715031 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ken Kuronuma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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