Japanese Fiction Thrillers

The winter of 1578, four years prior to the Honno-ji Incident. Araki Murashige has betrayed his ally Oda Nobunaga and holed himself up in Arioka Castle—but a string of unsettling incidents within the castle walls has him at his wit’s end. The desperate warlord’s only hope for solving these mysteries is imprisoned in the castle’s dungeon: a man named Kuroda Kanbei, one of Oda’s most gifted strategists. When all the conflict and intrigue come to a close, what will these two men have gained…and lost?

Ousted by a rival cartel, a brutal drug lord flees Mexico to the distant East. An unwanted child commits a terrible deed and is locked away for years. A Japanese heart surgeon is shunned by the medical community and turns to working as an illegal organ broker. Three lives become entangled in threads of flesh and are plunged deep into a world of blood and bone. Together, they carve out a new criminal empire, but how long can a dynasty last? Destiny is not for mortals to decide. It is cast by the Night and Wind. It is cast by Tezcatlipoca.

In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim's face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man, overheard talking in a distinctive accent to a young man, and the word “kameda.” Inspector Imanishi leaves his beloved bonsai and his haiku and goes off to investigate—and runs up against a blank wall. Months pass in fruitless questioning, in following up leads, until the case is closed, unsolved. But Imanishi is dissatisfied.

「こちらはクライド・アムニー、弁護士だ」午前六時半。

出所したばかりの大男へら鹿（ムース）・マロイは、八年前に別れた恋人を探して黒人街にやってきた。

東京都荒川区の超高層マンションで起きた凄惨な殺人事件。

十五世紀の中国、明の時代。北京から南京に遣わされた皇太子は爆発による襲撃に襲われる。さらに北京にいる皇帝も命を狙われていることを知った皇太子は、幾度と襲い掛かってくる刺客から逃れつつ、南京から北京へ向かう幾千里にもわたる決死行が始まる！

ヤクザが支配する環境犯罪に囮捜査は功を奏すのか。

CI SONO DUE COSE CHE IO NON RIESCO ASSOLUTAMENTE A SOPPORTARE: LE FEMMINISTE E LA MARGARINA. Rika è una giornalista in una rivista maschile. È l’unica donna nel suo posto di lavoro e spesso viene trattata come una segretaria, quando non peggio. Per cercare di farsi strada lavora giorno e notte e tutto ciò che riesce a cucinare quando la sera torna tardi a casa è un ramen preconfezionato. Da tempo però un pensiero la assilla: vuole intervistare Manako Kajii, la cuoca gourmet accusata di aver assassinato gli uomini d’affari con i quali si intratteneva, dopo aver cucinato per loro.

Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil - as Jonathan will discover after he accidentally gets a trace of his blood on its surface in this disturbing tale of terror.

【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

あるところに一人のオクサマがいた。主人が浮気していると疑うと小突いたりヒステリーを起こしたりしていた。 そんな、ある日オクサマの友達である若い未亡人が訪問してきた。オクサマは主人のことが浮気しているかもと未亡人に泣いて訴えた。

Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium, and curmudgeonly gardener Mas Arai finds himself embroiled in a murder. A Japanese tabloid writer drops dead on the field, and Mas gave the victim his last drink. It turns out there's more at stake than a baseball championship - international diplomacy depends upon uncovering secrets buried decades ago.

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

夫と子供に恵まれ、女は理想の家庭を築き上げたことに満ち足りていた。

NSAのネットワークに侵入したのはリスベットだった。彼女はある目的のため、この犯罪組織を追っていたのだ。犯罪組織のリーダーはサノスと呼ばれていた。

雑誌『ミレニアム』を発行するミカエルたちの会社は経営危機に陥り、株式の30パーセントを大手メディア企業のセルネル社に売り渡していた。

大晦日の朝、私立探偵・沢崎のもとを見知らぬ若い女、伊吹啓子が訪れた。銀行強盗を自首した父の無罪を証明してほしいという。彼女を父親が拘留されている新宿署に送り届けた沢崎は狙撃事件に遭遇してしまう。

〔日本冒険小説協会賞最優秀短編賞受賞作〕十才の少年の依頼で、ある女性の監視をはじめた沢崎は、思いもかけぬ銀行強盗事件に巻きこまれることに──

四〇〇日ぶりに東京に帰ってきた沢崎を待っていたのは浮浪者の男だった。男の導きで、沢崎は元高校野球選手からの調査を請け負う。