Takahiro Okura

Takahiro Okura
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Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	1968
Place of birth:	Kyoto, Japan
Location:	Kyoto, Japan
Nicknames:	Natsuki Tsuburaya (圆谷 夏树)
Surname can also be written Ookura, Oukura or Ohkura

Takahiro Okura (大倉 崇裕 ,Ōkura Takahiro), born 1968, is a renowned Japanese screenplay writer and mystery novelist from Kyoto. He is famous for his Detective Dramas and for his work in Detective Conan. He is also the creator of Lieutenant Fukuie who was featured in the Detective Picture Book.

He graduated from Gakushuin University. In 1997, by virtue of Another Ghost (三人目の幽霊), he won the fourth session of Sougen Mystery Short Award. In the same year, his work The Egyptians Came (エジプト人がやってきた) was selected by Tetsuya Ayukawa's edited anthology Honkaku Mystery 10. Later, he won the Novel Mystery Newcomer Award due to his work Tools & Stalls (ツール&ストール), under his penname Natsuki Tsuburaya back then.

Okura is also a fan of monsters and tokusatsus, therefore, he wrote the script for the 7th episode of Ultraman Max. Meanwhile, he also does some translation works, for example, he translated and novelized the American TV drama Columbo. In addition, his representative work is Osamu Shirato Case Files (白戸修の事件簿).

In 2016, Okura joined the Detective Conan production team, under the recommendation of Gosho Aoyama, who saw one of Okura's work Greetings from Lieutenant Fukuie (福家警部補の挨拶). He is now in charge of some Detective Conan movie scripts.

Scenarios written

Number of case scenarios written: 5 (8 episodes)

• The Mysterious Boy (Episode 829)
• The Mystery of the Vanished Black Belt (Episode 855)
• Intrigue at the Food Court (Episode 936)
• Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Episodes 965-968)
• The Flying Jack-o'-lantern (Episode 1039)

Movie scripts written

Okura in Singapore, next to the Merlion, which was where movie 23 took place.

Number of movie scripts written: 3

• The Crimson Love Letter (Movie 21)
• The Fist of Blue Sapphire (Movie 23)
• The Bride of Halloween (Movie 25)

Other notable works

Anime

• Lupin the Third: Part 5 (Episode 17): Screenplay

TV dramas

• MPD: Animal Unit: Screenplay
• Enter Lieutenant Fukuie: Screenplay
• Shirato Osamu no Jikenbo: Screenplay

TV movies

• Fukuie Keibuho no Aisatsu (2009): Screenplay

References

1. 大倉崇裕 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. Asian Wiki
3. Anime News Network