Kinuyo Tanaka
In 1935, Kawaguchi won the first Naoki Prize for a short story titled "Tsuruhachi Tsurujirō". He followed this with a serialized novel, "Aizen Katsura", a melodramatic love story involving a nurse and a doctor, which ran from 1936-1938. The story became a tremendously popular bestseller and gained him considerable fame. It was later made into a movie starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Ken Uehara, and was the basis of numerous television series.