---
name: "Kazuo Ishiguro"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kazuo-ishiguro"
fi1m_id: "kazuo-ishiguro"
imdb_id: "nm0410958"
tmdb_id: 83664
wikidata_id: "Q272855"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "8 November 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T02:50:12.271220+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kazuo Ishiguro

## Identity

Kazuo Ishiguro

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kazuo-ishiguro
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kazuo-ishiguro
- **IMDb ID:** nm0410958
- **TMDB ID:** 83664
- **Wikidata ID:** Q272855
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272855, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410958/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83664

Writer and producer. Born 8 November 1954 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 8 November 1954, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
- **Active:** 1993–present
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (1), 2010s 73 (1), 2020s 81 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $40m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272855, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410958/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83664

## Coming up

- *Klara and the Sun* (2026-10-21), Book — [page](https://film.one/film/klara-and-the-sun.md)

## Biography

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist and screenwriter. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, he moved with his family to England at the age of five. He studied English and philosophy at the University of Kent and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, earning a master's degree in 1980.

His novels include *The Remains of the Day* (1989), which won the Booker Prize, and *Never Let Me Go* (2005). Film adaptations of his work include the 1993 screen version of *The Remains of the Day* and *Never Let Me Go* (2010). He wrote the screenplay for the 2022 film *Living*, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's *Ikiru*.

Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.

*Sources: nobelprize.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Living* (2022), Fi1m 81, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/living.md)
- *Never Let Me Go* (2010), Fi1m 73, Executive Producer, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/never-let-me-go.md)
- *The Remains of the Day* (1993), Fi1m 88, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-remains-of-the-day.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Klara and the Sun* (2026), Book, Executive Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/klara-and-the-sun.md)
- *A Pale View of Hills* (2025), Novel, Executive Producer
- *Living* (2022), Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/living.md)
- *An Artist of the Floating World* (2019), Novel
- *Never Let Me Go* (2016), series, Creator
- *Ex Machina* (2015), Thanks — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/ex-machina.md)
- *Never Let Me Go* (2010), Executive Producer, Novel — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/never-let-me-go.md)
- *The White Countess* (2005), Writer
- *The Saddest Music in the World* (2003), Screenplay
- *The Remains of the Day* (1993), Novel — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-remains-of-the-day.md)
- *The Gourmet* (1986), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Kazuo Ishiguro](https://film.one/media/person/82550/gallery-f66f1b76dc79.jpg) Kazuo Ishiguro — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/MKr377543_Kazuo_Ishiguro_%28A_Pale_View_of_Hills%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg/1280px-MKr377543_Kazuo_Ishiguro_%28A_Pale_View_of_Hills%2C_Cannes_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Director Mark Romanek with author Kazuo Ishiguro and several Never Let Me Go cast members on October 13, 2010](https://film.one/media/person/82550/gallery-d8e614452c64.jpg) Director Mark Romanek with author Kazuo Ishiguro and several Never Let Me Go cast members on October 13, 2010 — Bex.Walton, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Cast_of_Never_Let_Me_Go_%40_BFI_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_Never_Let_Me_Go_%40_BFI_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017.](https://film.one/media/person/82550/gallery-2d812d98f04a.jpg) Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017. — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Kazuo_Ishiguro_in_2017_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017.](https://film.one/media/person/82550/gallery-b9ed3ad555bb.jpg) Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017. — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Kazuo_Ishiguro_in_2017_02.jpg/1280px-Kazuo_Ishiguro_in_2017_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kazuo Ishiguro](https://film.one/media/person/82550/gallery-dea36c062701.jpg) Kazuo Ishiguro — Image via TMDB
- ![Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017.](https://film.one/media/person/82550/gallery-089e4afb5a4b.jpg) Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017. — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Kazuo_Ishiguro_in_2017_03.jpg/1280px-Kazuo_Ishiguro_in_2017_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017.](https://film.one/media/person/82550/gallery-03a70cdda3aa.jpg) Kazuo Ishiguro in the Stockholm Stock Exchange during the Swedish Academy's press conference on December 6, 2017. — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Kazuo_Ishiguro_in_2017_04.jpg/1280px-Kazuo_Ishiguro_in_2017_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Living*

### Other awards — 10 won, 11 nominated

- Companion of Honour 2025: Companion of Honour (won)
- Arthur C. Clarke Award 2022: Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominated), for *Klara and the Sun*
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2022: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominated), for *Klara and the Sun*
- Booker Prize 2021: Booker Prize (nominated), for *Klara and the Sun*
- Bodley Medal 2019: Bodley Medal (won)
- Knight Bachelor 2018: Knight Bachelor (won)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 2017: Nobel Prize in Literature (won)
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2016: Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominated), for *The Buried Giant*
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature 2016: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominated), for *The Buried Giant*
- World Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2016: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominated), for *The Buried Giant*
- Helmerich Award 2013: Helmerich Award (won)
- Arthur C. Clarke Award 2006: Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominated), for *Never Let Me Go*
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2006: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominated), for *Never Let Me Go*
- Booker Prize 2005: Booker Prize (nominated), for *Never Let Me Go*
- Booker Prize 2000: Booker Prize (nominated), for *When We Were Orphans*
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1998: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1995: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (won)
- Booker Prize 1989: Booker Prize (won), for *The Remains of the Day*
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1989: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)
- Booker Prize 1986: Booker Prize (nominated), for *An Artist of the Floating World*
- Costa Book Awards 1986: Costa Book Awards (won), for *An Artist of the Floating World*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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