The Tattoo Murder: by Akimitsu Takagi

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It’s often the great European and American mystery writers of the 19th and 20th centuries — writers like Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle — whom we first turn to when looking for a great detective novel. You're welcome! Good news is that most, if not all, of them are currently in print and Yokomizo's The Inugami Clan is getting reprinted next year under the title The Inugami Curse. This is preceded by a translation of The Honjin Murders. Seishi Yokomizo provided the world with a hefty library of works, most of them centred around his legendary and adored detective Kindaichi. Pubblicato da poco (luglio 2020) da Einaudi, questo romanzo del 1948 mi ha trasportato nella Tokyo del dopoguerra: l’autore, Akimitsu Takagi, è molto bravo nel ricostruire l’ambientazione e l’atmosfera della capitale nipponica e descrivere i personaggi in modo da farceli ben conoscere e lasciarci, al tempo stesso, sempre nel dubbio su quello che pensino veramente; il tutto decorato da una serie di meravigliosi tatuaggi (gli irezumi) che sembrano vivere di vita propria ed influenzare addirittura i comportamenti dei loro possessori.

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Jha, Subhash K (April 12, 2021). "The Tattoo Murders Review: This Meera Chopra, Tanuj Virwani Starrer Is About Lowbrow Thrills | SpotboyE". SpotboyE . Retrieved 7 July 2023. Kinue is involved with Takezo Mogami, who shadily built up a successful business during the war, the Mogami Group, which is still going strong. So when I started on this book, I thought that Kenzo was going to be the detective in this story. But soon after the investigation begins, it’s quite clear that Kenzo doesn’t have what it takes (ah, dear naive Kenzo). He definitely tries his best, but the true detective of this story is his old friend, Kyosuke Kamizu, who appears in the latter half of the novel like Miss Marple to solve the mystery. Basically, we get half the book for set up, and then half the book (or perhaps a little less than half) for Kyosuke to solve the mystery. Meera Chopra plays Aditi Acharya, an exceptional police officer battling demons of her past, who has been tasked with catching a serial killer involved in the killing of young women in the seedy redlight district of Mumbai. This is a complex and angry feminist Japanese novel, a revenge tragedy against patriarchal oppression, and one of the best Japanese novels of the 20th century.

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Those journals take you on a journey into the callous mind of a dangerous youth. Then our anonymous protagonist is captured, named the same man he was reading, and is taken to a facility. Akimitsu Takagi ( 高木 彬光 , Takagi Akimitsu?, 25 September 1920–9 September 1995), was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer active during the Showa period of Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi. Critic Subhash K. Jha rated the series 2 stars out of 5 and felt the series as restless and sleazy, stating "The Tattoo Murders(earlier titled Kamathipura) is a pulpy puzzle and finally a mindless mess. The atmosphere created in this series is so sleazy I wondered who the target-audience for the 7 episodes of mayhem and sleaze was. I believe lowbrow crime and campy sex have a younger non-metropolitan audience.This series feels like those softcover pulp novels that used to be available on railways stations and pavement book stalls." [9]

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CAST - 4 stars: "Boy Genius" Kyoshuke Kamizu enters the story after the half-way mark and solves it all: I think he's the main character in the rest of the series. A famous tattoo artist, Horiyasu, places his artwork on 3 of his children: Kinue Nomura (a beauty, owns the "Serpent Bar" which offers pretty much anything), sister Tamae (supposedly killed during WW2 bombings) and brother Tsuntero (disappeared during same war in the Phillipines). Kenzo Matsuhita is a military medic suffering from PTSD and his older brother is Detective Chief Inspector Doiyu Matsuhita. This is a very good cast, but I can't give this element 5 stars as we never meet Horiyasu and the tattoos he places on his children are taboo subjects: why? (An explanation is offered, a very brief one, but it wasn't satisfying to me.) Entertainment Actor Robert De Niro testifies at a trial after former personal assistant accuses the actor of being an abusive boss Authors like Seishi Yokomizo, Soji Shimada, and Masako Togawa were and are known as the Christies and Doyles of Japan. Within the book’s narrative, that job falls on detective Kiyoshi Mitarai, but can you solve the murder even before he can? This is Meera Chopra's most captivating and honest performance and she has shown irrefutably that she is well on her way to growing into a consummate performer that she is striving to be. The raw intensity and the poise with which she carries off the role and pulls the audience by the scruff, is inescapable.

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American singer-songwriter P!nk postpones her Tacoma shows due to family issues, posts an apology for fans Un classico giallo della stanza chiusa ambientato nel Giappone del dopoguerra in un mondo affascinante quanto misterioso - ancor più perché fuori legge in quel periodo - quello dell' irezumi, il tatuaggio giapponese, che copriva grandi porzioni di torso e di braccia di chi se lo faceva applicare, con tutte le leggende relative ai personaggi mitologici che venivano raffigurati nel tatuaggio.

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Tuteja, Joginder (April 13, 2021). "The Tattoo Murders review". Rediff.com . Retrieved 22 May 2023. Officially, tattooing is still strictly illegal at the time, so an air of secrecy and the taboo still surrounds the craft -- and practitioners tend to be very cautious about revealing what they do, but The Tattoo Murder Case immerses the reader fully in this milieu -- with the tattoo artists true artists, and the tattooing process something much more painstaking (and painful) than most contemporary Western tattooing. While he lives his days as an ordinary, unassuming urban husband, at night Honda is a man who enjoys seducing the vulnerable women of Tokyo’s clubs and bars.

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The Tattoo Murder Case -- now re-published simply as The Tattoo Murder -- is set in just-post-war Tokyo, beginning in the summer of 1947. When I saw the basics here-- Japanese Murder Mystery circa 1947-- I couldn't wait to read it. But there's something wrong. This comes across as disconnected, disjointed, and at the same time kind of homogenized for general acceptance. And, late in the story, Kyosuke Kamizu is introduced -- an extraordinarily gifted young man who had attended Tokyo University Medical School shortly after Kenzo and whose promising academic career had been cut short by the war. The central question we face is this: is the killer one of the students, or is it the not-so-dead owner of the Decagon House? This is a fantastically satisfying novel, full of unexpected beats and littered with fun red herrings that really trip you up on the way to the end. A true traditional honkaku mystery novel.

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Now, at last, what many consider the best honkaku Japanese detective story has arrived in English in the form of a punchy, thrilling translation by Louise Heal Kawai.Meanwhile, Vinayakan, while leaving with the police from the hospital after his medical examination, told media persons that he was unaware why he was arrested Comment upon first reading: Enjoyable Japanese whodunnit. The characters are somewhat bland in their polite Japanese way, and the solution to the murder mystery is interesting in the same way that the solution to a crossword puzzle is interesting. The chief strengths of the narrative are its evocation of post-war Japan and its portrayal of the Japanese art tattoo subculture. On the whole, worth your time if you have an interest in things Japanese. Given the brevity of this honkaku novella, revelations come fast and they hit hard. This is a swift tale that can be enjoyed in an afternoon, but won’t soon be forgotten.