About Aoki Shinmon
Lived 1937 – 2022 (aged 85). Aoki Shinmon was a Japanese novelist, poet, funeral director and writer.
was a Japanese writer and poet. He was best known for his memoirs Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician, published in 1993. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.
Aoki died on 6 August 2022, at the age of 85.
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Who was Aoki Shinmon?
Japanese writer and poet (1937-2022)
When was Aoki Shinmon born?
Aoki Shinmon was born on 11 April 1937 in Nyūzen-machi.
When did Aoki Shinmon die?
Aoki Shinmon died on 6 August 2022 in Toyama.
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Aoki Shinmon was a novelist, poet, funeral director and writer.
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Aoki Shinmon was Japanese.
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