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Kenji Nakagami

Born August 2, 1946 · Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Died August 12, 1992 · aged 46

Kenji Nakagami was a Japanese novelist and essayist. He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin. His works depict the intense life-experiences of men and women struggling to survive in a Burakumin community in western Japan. His most celebrated novels include “Misaki” (The Cape), winner of the Akutagawa Prize in 1976, an…

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The EgoistsThe Egoists · 2011
The Egoists
★ 4.92011
MovieDramaRomance
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Fire FestivalFire Festival · 1985
Fire Festival
★ 5.71985
MovieDrama
Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
The Youth KillerThe Youth Killer · 1976
The Youth Killer
★ 6.51976
MovieDramaCrime
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Eighteen Years, to the SeaEighteen Years, to the Sea · 1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
★ 6.71979
MovieDrama
Struggling with money, violence and social pressure, a couple of youngsters are drawn to dangerous games of death.
The Woman with Red HairThe Woman with Red Hair · 1979
The Woman with Red Hair
★ 5.81979
MovieDrama
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
The Nineteen-Year-Old's MapThe Nineteen-Year-Old's Map · 1979
The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
★ 7.21979
MovieDrama
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
The Millennial RaptureThe Millennial Rapture · 2012
The Millennial Rapture
★ 4.02012
MovieDrama
Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying. There were beautiful men in “Roji” who struggled to live with the blood of the Nakamato Clan, blood called “noble yet unholy.” Oryu, a midwife, has watched all those men growing up, living and dying... She is now aging old and starts to talk with the dead men souls of the Nakamoto Clan...

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