Biography: Tsutomu Izumi (和泉務) is a Japanese screenwriter and former stand-up comedy writer. He and his wife Tokiko Mega (妻鹿年季子) began writing under the joint pen name Izumi Kizara (木皿泉) in 2003. In 2013, they collaborated on their first novel, Last Night’s Curry, Tomorrow’s Bread (昨夜のカレー、明日のパン).