Noboru Sugimura
Noboru Sugimura (杉村 升, Sugimura Noboru, June 28, 1948 – February 25, 2005)[1] was a Japanese television and video game writer best known for his work on the Metal Hero, Super Sentai, Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Onimusha series.He had studied under Ei Ogawa, one of the main writers of the Japanese crime drama TV series Taiyō ni Hoero![2] Starting his own business, he went on to become the main writer of Sukeban Deka and the Metal Hero Series, and later created scenarios for Seibu Keisatsu, Lupin III Part II, Hadaka no Taishō and Kamen Rider Black.[1] Initially consulted on a trial basis, he ended up writing the complete story for the game and, together with Okamoto and two others, co-founded the now-defunct Capcom writers studio Flagship in April 1997 and would later work on other Capcom titles such as Clock Tower 3, Dino Crisis 2, Dino Stalker, Dino Crisis 3, and the first three main installments of the Onimusha series.Yoshiki Okamoto, who meanwhile founded Game Republic, said: "He was an extremely energetic person, and I thought that he would live a lot longer than me.