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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo....
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (299 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
日本語
Description
[v. 1]. Osaka elegy. Switchboard operator Ayako agrees to enter into an affair with her married boss after he promises to support her and her father - setting her off on a seemingly irreversible downward spiral
[v. 2]. Sisters of the Gion. Two geisha sisters - one modern-minded, the other staunchly traditional - disagree over how to deal with the men controlling their lives and livelihoods
[v. 3]. Women of the night. The story of two sisters,...
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