Overview
- Koji Suzuki, who died Friday at a Tokyo hospital, was 68 and his publisher cited a disease as the cause.
- He was best known for Ring and its sequel Spiral, which were adapted into hit films and helped fuel a global interest in Japanese horror.
- He made his literary debut with Rakuen (Paradise) and won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award in 1990.
- Rasen earned the Eiji Yoshikawa literary award for newcomers, and Edge later received the Shirley Jackson Award in the United States.
- Born in Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, he also wrote Dark Water, which reached wider audiences through film adaptations.