Kaoru Morimoto

was a Japanese playwright, screenwriter and translator. He is famous for his critically acclaimed play A Woman's Life (Onna no isshō),

Biography Morimoto was born in Osaka, Japan, on 4 June 1912 and later moved to Kyoto, where he received a degree in English literature from Kyoto University in 1937. Migotona onna (1934), one of Morimoto's earliest plays, was published in the magazine Gekisaku ("Playwright"), edited by Kishida. In 1941, Morimoto joined the Bungakuza. Fallen Blossoms (1938), based on his play and directed by Tamizō Ishida, another Bungakuza affiliate, is nowadays seen as one of the outstanding Japanese films of the 1930s.

Dotō (1944), based on the story of Japanese scientist Kitasato Shibasaburō, was performed by the New National Theatre in Tokyo as a part of their 1999–2000 season.

Major works 1934: Wagaya (わが家, lit. "My home"), one act 1934: Ikka fū (一家風, lit. "Family style"), one act 1934: Migotona onna (みごとな女, lit. "A magnificent woman"), one act 1935: Hanabanashiki ichizoku (華々しき一族, lit. "Hanabanashiki clan"), three acts 1936: Ishō (衣装, lit. "Clothing"), one act 1941: Chin fujin, (陳夫人, lit. "Madam Chen"), adaptation of a work by Soichi Shoji, with Sumie Tanaka 1944: Ōgi (扇, lit. "Fan"), one act 1944: Dotō (怒濤, lit. "Raging waves"), five acts 1945: A Woman's Life, five acts

Film adaptations 1938: Fallen Blossoms 1939: Mukashi no uta (also screenplay) 1944: Gekiryu (also screenplay) 1946: Ai no senkusha 1953: Aijin 1962: Life of a Woman