Kan Shimozawa graduated from the Department of Law of the University of Meiji. Then he decided to be a journalist and joined reputed Yomiuri Shinbun and later Tokyo Gendai. In the 20s he began to write novels and focused in period aventure dramas. From 1931 his novels were converted into movies (there are more than 100 film adaptations), but he did not gain a reputation until the publication of his revolutionary novel Shinsengumi Chronicles in 1937. It is a new version of the famous story of ...[Read Story]