Kōbō Abe
Kishida's film credits include Yasujirō Ozu's "An Autumn Afternoon" (1962), "The Broken Commandment" (based on a novel by Shimazaki Toson), Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Woman in the Dunes" (1964) and "The Face of Another" (1966) (both from novels by Kōbō Abe), Yasuzo Masumura's "Manji" (1964) (based on a novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki), Kon Ichikawa's "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" (1987) based on the classic story, "Heaven and Earth" (1990), and "Spring Snow", the 2005 Isao Yukisada adaptation of the Mishima novel.