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Natto Wada

Known For
Writing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Female

Birthday
September 13, 1920 (105 years old)

Place of Birth
Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Natto Wada

Biography

Natto Wada (和田 夏十, Wada Natto, 13 September 1920 – 18 February 1983), also known as Natsuto Wada, was a Japanese script writer and film columnist.

Wada graduated with an English degree from Tokyo Women's College in 1946. She started her career at the Fujimoto Cinema Production company, where she met her husband, Kon Ichikawa, a filmmaker who promoted her script work to colleagues and collaborated with her on several films. She began writing, or co-writing, scripts in 1951, and continued until 1965. Wada's scripts included the 1953 film Puu-san, a satirical comedy based on the manga of Yokoyama Taizo; the 1956 film Shokei no Heya, based on a novel by Ishihara Shintaro. That year, Wada also wrote Nihonbashi, based on a novel by Izumi Kyoka, which documented the rivalry of two geisha in a male-dominated culture. Kuroi Junin no Onna (Ten Dark Women) was a 1961 film that satirized an egotistical male's reliance on his wife to stay out of trouble. Also that year, Wada wrote Hakai (The Broken Commandment) a film adaptation of Shimazaki Toson's eponymous 1906 novel, which examined the life of a social outcast. Wada's adaptation was notable for strengthening the role of the female protagonist. Other film scripts by Wada or with collaborators include Biruma no Tategoto (Harp of Burma, 1956), based on the eponymous 1946 novel by Takayama Michio; Enjō (Conflagration, 1959) based on Mishima Yukio's 1956 novel, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Wada was also known for her work as an advice columnist during the 1960s. Her column, "Personal Life Consultation," ran in the Asahi Shimbun.

Known For

Writing

2016Ten Dark Women...Original Story
2002Ten Dark Women...Writer
2001Kah-chan...Writer
1988Crane...Writer
1985The Burmese Harp...Screenplay
1965Tokyo Olympiad...Writer
1963Alone Across the Pacific...Screenplay
1963An Actor's Revenge...Scenario Writer
1962Being Two Isn't Easy...Screenplay
1962The Broken Commandment...Screenplay
1961Ten Dark Women...Screenplay
1960The Woman Who Touched Legs...Writer
1960Bonchi...Screenplay
1960The Wandering Princess...Writer
1959Fires on the Plain...Writer
1959Odd Obsession...Screenplay
1959Goodbye, Hello...Writer
1958Conflagration...Screenplay
1957Hole in One...Writer
1957The Crowded Train...Screenplay
1956Bridge of Japan...Screenplay
1956Punishment Room...Screenplay
1956The Burmese Harp...Screenplay
1955Ghost Story of Youth...Screenplay
195412 Chapters About Women...Writer
1954A Billionaire...Writer
1953The Lovers...Writer
1953Youth of Heiji Senigata...Screenplay
1953Mr. Pu...Screenplay
1952This Way, That Way...Screenplay
1952The Woman Who Touched the Legs...Screenplay
1952Forbidden Path...Screenplay
1951Wedding March...Writer
1951Bengawan Solo...Writer
1951Stolen Love...Writer
1951Koibito...Writer
1949Endless Passion...Writer
1949Ningen moyo...Writer

Costume & Make-Up

1962Being Two Isn't Easy...Costume Consultant

Acting

2006The Kon Ichikawa Storyas Herself