An engaging all-action satire on 1960s Tokyo consumerism receives its first English translation
‘Yukio Mishima killed himself after his 1970 coup to restore the emperor’s power failed.’ Photograph: Carlo Bavagnoli/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Imageuman life is quite meaningless, and people are just puppets anyway,” says Hanio Yamada, as he sits in a warehouse with three men who want him dead. “What’s the big deal?” The big deal is the first English translation of a piece of engaging pulp fiction, first published in 1968 in Japanese Playboy, by one of the country’s literary greats.
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