{"rewrite":{"id":"r_bc733f13d3f0a848156e36f1","clusterId":"c_d17cb85cb0038d8e539df839","slug":"director-and-scriptwriter-izuru-narushima-dies-at-65","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"Director and Scriptwriter Izuru Narushima Dies at 65","summary":"Award-winning director and scriptwriter Izuru Narushima died of lung cancer on August 24, Kyodo reported. He was 65. Narushima won 10 awards at the 35th Japan Academy Prizes for his 2011 film Rebirth, including best picture and best director. In anime, he wrote the screenplay for the 2000 film The Boy Who Saw the Wind.","whyItMatters":"Narushima's death removes a director whose live-action work earned major Japan Academy recognition and whose screenplay credits extended into anime with The Boy Who Saw the Wind.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eIzuru Narushima, the director and scriptwriter behind the 2011 film Rebirth, died of lung cancer on August 24, Kyodo reported. He was 65.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1961 in Yamanashi prefecture, Narushima began screenwriting in 1994 and directed his first film in 2004. Rebirth won 10 awards at the 35th Japan Academy Prizes, including best picture and best director.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis anime work includes the screenplay for the 2000 film The Boy Who Saw the Wind. He also directed the 2023 live-action film Father of the Galactic Railroad, based on the life of Kenji Miyazawa, and other films including Cape Nostalgia, Isoroku, Solomon\u0026#39;s Perjury, Midnight Eagle, and The Lone Scalpel. The Japan Academy Prize Association posted condolences on Friday.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Izuru Narushima's 2011 Rebirth took 10 awards at the 35th Japan Academy Prizes, including best picture and best director. His anime work, The Boy Who Saw the Wind, sits apart from that live-action recognition.","twitterPost":"Narushima's Rebirth won 10 Japan Academy Prizes in 2011; his anime credit, The Boy Who Saw the Wind, remains his sole film in that field.","threadsPost":"Izuru Narushima's death at 65 removes a director whose live-action career, capped by Rebirth's 10 awards at the 35th Japan Academy Prizes, overshadowed his single anime screenplay, The Boy Who Saw the Wind from 2000. That gap between his live-action acclaim and his anime output is worth sitting with.","newsletterBlurb":"Izuru Narushima, the director and scriptwriter behind the 2011 film Rebirth, died of lung cancer on August 24 at age 65. He won 10 Japan Academy Prizes for Rebirth and wrote the screenplay for the 2000 anime film The Boy Who Saw the Wind.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-08-29/director-scriptwriter-izuru-narushima-dies-at-65/.241105\",\"title\":\"Director, Scriptwriter Izuru Narushima Dies at 65\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4308,"outputTokens":607,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1788028668,"createdAt":"2026-08-29T18:27:44.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-08-29T18:31:44.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-29T18:27:44.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_d17cb85cb0038d8e539df839","canonicalTitle":"News\nDirector, Scriptwriter Izuru Narushima Dies at 65","representativeArticleId":"a_dac0cea5b6b85664cbac6829","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"The Boy Who Saw the Wind\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Rebirth\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Izuru Narushima\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-08-29T17:15:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-08-29T17:15:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-29T18:31:45.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-08-29/director-scriptwriter-izuru-narushima-dies-at-65/.241105","title":"News\nDirector, Scriptwriter Izuru Narushima Dies at 65"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["The Boy Who Saw the Wind"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Rebirth"],"studios":[],"people":["Izuru Narushima"],"type":"news","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}