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Author banana yoshimoto7/8/2023 There have been two film adaptations: a Japanese TV movie and a more widely released version titled Wo ai chu fang, produced in Hong Kong by Ho Yim in 1997. Her debut work, Kitchen (1988), had over 60 printings in Japan alone. Yoshimoto began her writing career while working as a waitress at a golf club restaurant, in 1987. Each day she takes half an hour to write at her computer, and she says, "I tend to feel guilty because I write these stories almost for fun." Between 20, she maintained an online journal for English-speaking fans. Yoshimoto keeps her personal life guarded and reveals little about her certified rolfing practitioner husband, Hiroyoshi Tahata, or son (born in 2003). While there, she adopted the pseudonym "Banana", after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous." Yoshimoto graduated from Nihon University's College of Art with a major in literature. Her father was the poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, and her sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964, and grew up in a liberal family. From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana ( よしもと ばなな). Banana Yoshimoto ( 吉本 ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana, born 24 July 1964 ) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto ( 吉本 真秀子, Yoshimoto Mahoko).
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