Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! Grand Award
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (2004) grand prize
Akio Fukamachi
ふかまち あきお
Fukamachi Akio
Pen Names:
Atsushi Furukawa（Pen name used at time of the award）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Screenwriter
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | Takarajima Publishing | Winner (shared) |
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Organization:
Takarajima Publishing
Result:
Winner (shared)
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Former detective-turned-security guard Akihiro Fujishima searches for his missing daughter Kanako and becomes entangled in large-scale crime involving the local underworld, drugs, and child prostitution. The novel explores family dysfunction, violence and the descent into madness.
family dysfunctionjuvenile crimedrugsviolencerevenge
Adaptations
- [Film] World of Kanako / 中島哲也 (2014)
Adaptations
- Film adaptation: 'World of Kanako' (2014, dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)
- Manga adaptation: serialized and published (2014) by Takuya Ataka
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- dark, direct descriptionsmodern style that probes society's underbelly
- Recurring Motifs
- broken familiesyouth violencedrug addictioncycles of revenge and guilt
Legacy
Hatashinaki Kawaki became a bestseller, surpassing 250,000 copies, and gained wider recognition through film and manga adaptations. Fukamachi is regarded for his depiction of society's darker aspects.
Trivia
- At the time of the award he used the pen name Atsushi Furukawa, and the original title was 'Hatena ki Kawaki ni Me o Samashi'.
- After publication the book sold over 250,000 copies and was adapted into a film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima in 2014.