Eisaku Kubonouchi

Kubonouchi made his professional career debut in 1986 with the short story Okappiki Eiji published in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday.^{[citation needed]} From 1988 to 1991, he worked on his first series, Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō, which was in 1991 made into a movie with Kōyō Maeda (ja) in the leading role.^{[citation needed]} His second manga series, Watanabe, was made into a television series in 1993, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.^{[citation needed]} After a 7-year hiatus,^{[citation needed]} Kubonouchi began Chocolat, a story about a former mob boss, just having been released from the prison, who befriends a 16-year-old girl. Chocolat was published from October 1999 to September 2003 in Big Comic Spirits.^[2] In 2003, the manga was made into a television drama,^[4] that lasted 45 episodes.