Juzo Yamasaki
Jūzō Yamasaki is a manga writer born in 1941 in Miyakonojō, Miyazaki Prefecture. He spent ten years as an assistant director at Toei's Tokyo production studio before turning to manga scripts; his best-known work, Tsuribaka Nisshi (art by Ken'ichi Kitami), won the 28th Shogakukan Manga Award (1982). In 2013 he directed his first film, "Asahiruban".