Career
He originally began in a career in Information Technology.
This work has subsequently been expanded into a series of light novels and has also been made into an anime. In 2004 he was presented the South-F Magazine Readers Award"s best short story award for Saitama Chainsaw Shōjo (さいたまチェーンソー少女). His 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill, received high praise from other authors in Japan and has subsequently been published in English by Viz Media.
Sakurazuka has an interest in computers and video games.
He is quite knowledgeable about computer culture, can program in Perl, is able to use specialized text editors such as Meadow and can typeset in TeX. He has also collaborated with cultural critic Hiroki Azuma on the works Geet State (ギートステイト) and Characters (キャラクターズ) and has written a critique of Yasutaka Tsutsui"s novel Dancing Vanity. Film adaptation
Sakurazaka"s novel All You Need is Kill was optioned by Warner Brothers, and based upon the story, the screenplay was written by Dante Harper and Joby Harold with a working title We Mortals Are.
Originally Brad Pitt was approached to play the lead, but he had conflicts with other films for which Warner wanted him. In October 2011, Tom Cruise began talks for the project to be directed by Doug Liman.
In June 2014 the movie premiered with the title Edge of Tomorrow.
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō 2 Gābēji Korekutā (よくわかる現代魔法 2 ガーベージコレクター?, "Garbage Collector") (2004. )
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō 3 Gōsutosukuriputo Fō Uizāzu (よくわかる現代魔法 3 ゴーストスクリプト・フォー・ウィザーズ?, "Ghostscript for Wizards") (2004. )
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō 4 jini Tsukai (よくわかる現代魔法 4 jini使い?, "Jini Handler") (2005.
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Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō 5 TMTOWTDI Tatta Hitotsu Ja Nai Saeta Yarikata (よくわかる現代魔法 5 TMTOWTDI たったひとつじゃない冴えたやりかた?, "TMTOWTDI Not The Only Neat Thing To Do") (2005.
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Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō 6 Firefox! (よくわかる現代魔法 6 Firefox!) (2009.
