Natto Wada (εη° ε€ε, Wada Natto, 13 September 1920 β 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; EnjΕ (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.
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An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse...
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Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...
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Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...
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The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of vi...
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Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplat...
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In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
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Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to ...
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This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
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| 1 | Tokyo Olympiad (1965) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 2 | An Actor's Revenge (1963) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 3 | Alone Across the Pacific (1963) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 4 | Being Two Isn't Easy (1962) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 5 | The Broken Commandment (1962) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 6 | Ten Dark Women (1961) | Director / Writer | 4 | |
| 7 | Fires on the Plain (1959) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 8 | Conflagration (1958) | Director / Writer | 3 | |
| 9 | The Burmese Harp (1956) | Director / Writer | 6.5 | |
| 10 | A Billionaire (1954) | Director / Writer | 4 |
