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name: "Naomi Iizuka"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 April 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T14:02:03.027748+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."
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# Naomi Iizuka

Writer. Born 22 April 1965 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 April 1965, Tokyo, Japan
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** Naomi Hisako Iizuka
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Iizuka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13563013, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5912294/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1822281

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Sympathizer*](https://film.one/tv/the-sympathizer.md) (72)

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## Biography

Naomi Iizuka is a Japanese-born American playwright and television writer. Born in Tokyo on 22 April 1965, she holds a BA in classical literature from Yale University and an MFA in playwriting from the University of California, San Diego.

She has written for television series including *The Terror* (2018), *Tokyo Vice* (2022), *Bosch: Legacy* (2022) and *The Sympathizer* (2024). Iizuka has also taught playwriting at the University of Iowa, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Santa Barbara, later heading the MFA playwriting programme at UC San Diego.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Sympathizer* (2024), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sympathizer.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *The Terminal List: Dark Wolf* (2025), series, Writer
- *The Sympathizer* (2024), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sympathizer.md)
- *Bosch: Legacy* (2022), series, Writer
- *Tokyo Vice* (2022), series, Writer, Executive Story Editor
- *The Terror* (2018), series, Writer
- *Emerald City* (2017), series, Teleplay

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