Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value [...]
Teruyo Nogami was a relative newcomer to film production when hired as a continuity/script assistant on Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. A witness to its filming-and its near destruction in a fire-over the next fifty years she worked on all the master's films-Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Kagemusha, and Dreams. N[...]
From award-winning author Asa Nonami comes her first English-language publication. Introducing Tokyo detective Takako Otomichi, who teams with a veteran detective to solve a bizarre murder. Their inquiry takes a whole new tack when bite marks on the victim are linked to a series of fatal attacks by [...]