One of Japan's most famous authors, Seishi Yokomizo is best remembered for his work on the popular Kosuke Kindaichi character. Yokomizo's first venture into writing occurred at the young age of 19 when his work was first published in the magazine New Youth. 13 years later, the writer would pen his first novel, Onibi, which was published in 1935. Unfortunately, due to timing with World War II, the author had trouble getting more of his work into circulation, although even at this point in time the author had already had his work adapted for the big screen starting with Battledore Mystery by Shochiku in 1938. After the war had passed, Yokomizo found himself with a large following from his detective novel work, which resulted in more movies from Daiei and other studios, including Toho with the 1954 movie Ghost Man.

More than a decade later, the author's popularity would go through a huge resurgence in the mid-1970's, brought on by new novels and the film The Inugamis (1976). This led into a huge boom in relation to the Kosuke Kindaichi character, who was appearing in both movies and on television as part of the Seishi Yokomizo Series (1977), named after the esteemed author. His last work on the character was completed in 1977, called The House of Hanging on Hospital Hill which Toho made into a movie two years later. Regretfully, the author passed away two years after the movie was produced, losing a fight to cancer.

Today, Yokomizo is remembered through an award distributed by Kadokawa and TBS annually, called the "Yokomizo Seishi Mystery Award", that takes unpublished mystery work and releases them in a book format while TBS adapts the work for TV.