The Tattoo Murder: by Akimitsu Takagi

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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. 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.

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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. The Tattoo Murder Case takes place in post-WWII Japan. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor, is at a tattoo competition where he meets and instantly falls in love with the entrancing and heavily tattoo-ed Kinue. While going to meet her for a second tryst, he finds her dead body – sans Torso. Since Kenzo’s brother is the Daiyu Matsushita, the Detective Chief Inspector, he ends up being able to follow the investigation (and the resulting murders) as a not-suspect but not quite investigator. Paying homage to Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, And Then There Were None, The Decagon House Murders follows the story of a group of young mystery novel fanatics who spend a few days on an island which was, just one year prior, the scene of a brutal murder. Kinue is involved with Takezo Mogami, who shadily built up a successful business during the war, the Mogami Group, which is still going strong.

The cop character is designed and played in a very drastic way there is no screen impression or hard hitting dialogues from this cop..she has a mental problem from years and which is solved within 2 minutes Pochi al mondo conoscono la bellezza dell’irezumi-il tatuaggio. E ancora meno sono coloro che subiscono il fascino insito nel gesto di imprimere una vita segreta su un corpo umano.”

THE TATTOO MURDER an addictive crime mystery full of twists THE TATTOO MURDER an addictive crime mystery full of twists

The story starts with a little boy killing his father by giving him rat poison, from there on only it all looked forced, direction is extremely loose. And cast is not suitable at all. Nothing seems forced, fed or faked even though there are instances where the audience is given an oblique yet plausible rundown on the field of hypnotic healing which somehow gets weaved into the plot. The whole premise even if it seems inscrutable grows on you as it unfolds. 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] stars for The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, and this is his first novel from more than half a century ago.Translation. Maybe so. Impossible to know without seeing a different translation or reading the Japanese original, but the above could all be shortcomings of the translation. The horror of Fuminori Nakamura’s My Annihilation is the clever way in which the author sets the reader down right next to his protagonist. You’re beside him; you’re in his head; you watch everything he does. Manchester United, Liverpool fans claim they were evicted from stadiums for displaying Palestine flag Kinue also had a brother and a sister, who their father had also tattooed, but the sister is presumed to have perished at Hiroshima and the brother is still among the many missing after the war.

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The development of other characters too is well paced and organic. The investigative mystery is a "in your face" blunt commentary on the rampant social ills of our society built on a platform of a compelling intrigue, solid plot and worthy performances. Masterfully translated and with a real taste of the Christie style and tone, this is one of the most perfect and satisfying Japanese mystery novels. Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X (or Salvation of a Saint just for its cheeky impossible crime) The central character is Kenzo Matsushita, a twenty-nine-year-old medical school graduate working on his PhD and hoping to join the police medical staff; he's also a great fan of foreign mystery novels. 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.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. Also maybe more on a personal note, I enjoyed the descriptions of traditional Japanese houses, styles, items used daily and food. That this was originally written in 1948 is a huge plus for me.