Asian Ghost

主人公ナタニエルは、幼い頃母親から子供の目玉を奪っていくという砂男の話を聞かされ、その実在を信じるようになる…自動人形・二重人格など怪奇小説の古典「砂男」を2人語りラジオドラマ化。

【数分で味わえる文豪の世界】　品格、叙情、エゴ、真情、変態性、エロス、醜、美・・・巨星「川端康成」のあらゆる要素が凝縮された「掌の小説」。４０年余の歳月をかけて滴り落ちた掌編をあつめた、文豪の半生ともいうべき１２２編のうちの１編です。川端康成の本質と深く関わる濃密な時間を、じっくりとご堪能ください。　　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

Grade school teacher and aspiring author Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship - in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman turns up at his door, claiming that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. She doesn't like it, but she has one question: What happened to the little boy of the family, her long-lost uncle?

A wonderful collection of spine-tingling ghost stories and thought-provoking essays on insects. This new version has an introduction "Hearn and Japan", which details the continuing influence of Hearn on contemporary Japan.

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.