Toshiharu Maruuchi

Japanese screenwriter In 1971 he was arrested for student protests and dropped out of Kyushu University After 12 years of legal battles and 25 years of imprisonment he decided to become a screenwriter at the age of 36 and studied under Haruhiko Arai In 1999 he won the Kikushima Ryūzō Award for One Step on a Mine Its All Over He is currently a lecturer at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image