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Outer Limit (Tentative title)
Synopsis
| Author | Tokaji, Keita |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Tokuma Shoten |
| ISBN | 4198614911 |
About the Author
Keita Tokaji was born in Tokyo in 1968. He graduated from the Department of Psychology of Gakushuin University. He was a self-proclaimed musician before he wrote his first book, "Yami no rakuen" (Paradise in the Dark). After this book won the Shincho Mystery Club Award in 1998, Tokaji gave up music to become a full time writer. Since then he has written many books including "Reimi," "Gangster Drive," "Outer Limit," and "Mikakunin Kazoku" (Unidentified Family). Because of his eccentric style, he was once described as Japan's "Guy Ritchie." In addition to "Oboreru Sakana"(Drowing Fish), there are two other movie adaptations of his books: "Gokinjo tantei TOMOE" (Neighborhood Detective TOMOE) and "Outer Limit." Lately, Tokaji has been making short films based on the short stories in his books, "Tokajinof" and "Tokajungo." "Drowning Fish" became a movie of the same name and was released in Japan in 2001 with Ken Watanabe ("Memoirs of a Geisha," "Batman Begins," "The Last Samurai") cast as a senior police officer.The movie won the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actor of 2001 (Yosuke Kubozuka).





