Hase Seishū, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hase Seishū

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1965

Place of Birth: Urakawa, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan

Profession: screenwriter, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Hase Seishu (? ??, born February 18, 1965) is the pen name of Toshihito Bando (?? ??), a well-known Japanese novelist.
He is known for writing Yakuza crime novels.
His pen name is based on the Chinese name of Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow, Chow Sing-chi (???), written backwards and rendered in Japanese.He was born in Hokkaido, Japan and graduated from Yokohama City University with his B.A.
in 1987.A few of his novels were adapted into Asian films, such as The City of Lost Souls and Sleepless Town, in 2000 and 1998, respectively. Seishu supervised the story for Sega's 2005 video game Yakuza and its 2006 sequel Yakuza 2.
He had no involvement with later entries in the series.