MADE IN TOKYO. DEVELOPED IN LOS ANGELES.
FICTION · ENGLISH
A Coming-of-Age Noir
Tokyo, 1995. Wataru Kashiwagi knows movies better than people. When a mysterious letter pulls the heartbroken video-store clerk to Los Angeles, he walks into a murder mystery where real violence has no retakes—and nobody follows the script.
FROM THE AUTHORA novel needs no one’s permission. It needs no money. All it needs is your own time.
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Mirai Konishi is a Los Angeles–based writer, filmmaker, and journalist. A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, he has interviewed more than 1,000 filmmakers and performers, reported on Hollywood for Japanese publications, and directed the documentary Kampai! For the Love of Sake. His fiction draws on decades spent between Japanese and American film cultures.
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