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Edition 4 (1991) honorable mention
Kazuo Matsunami
まつなみ かずお
Matsunami Kazuo
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1965-01-01 （Fukushima Prefecture, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist
- Active Years
- 1989-
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukushima University | Faculty of Economics | — | — | — | Japan |
Fukushima University
Faculty of Economics
Country:
Japan
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Japan Mystery Suspense Award (Honorable Mention) | Enola Gay Shootdown Directive | 佳作 | — | Honorable mention |
| 2006 | Oyabu Haruhiko Prize (Nominated) | Fuse | — | — | Nominated |
Japan Mystery Suspense Award (Honorable Mention)
1992
Work:
Enola Gay Shootdown Directive
Category:
佳作
Result:
Honorable mention
Oyabu Haruhiko Prize (Nominated)
2006
Work:
Fuse
Result:
Nominated
Awards & Nominations
Matsumoto Seicho Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (1994) nominee
Works
Major Works
Enola Gay Shootdown Directive
1992 Mystery/Suspense
militaryconspiracy
Extraction
1997 Mystery
crimemedical
Emergency Line
2003 Suspense
tensionpolice
Coffin of the Nucleus
2004 Suspense / Social thriller
nuclearpolitics
Fuse
2006 Hard-boiled / Suspense
revengeviolence
Detective Spirit
2011 Police novel
police organizationsjustice
Adaptations
- [TV drama] Detective Spirit (2012)
Magic Bullet: Metropolitan Police Special Investigator
2016 Police novel / Suspense
special investigationsshootings
Bibliography
- Enola Gay Shootdown Directive
- Extraction
- Emergency Line
- Coffin of the Nucleus
- Fuse
- Detective Spirit
- Magic Bullet: Metropolitan Police Special Investigator
Adaptations
- Detective Spirit (TV drama, 2012, TV Asahi; starring Kikutaka Katsu?)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Hard-boiled, tension-driven proseSuspense grounded in social issues
- Recurring Motifs
- police organizationscrime and ethicsrevenge
Legacy
An author active in Japanese suspense fiction since the 1990s. Known for police novels and works addressing social themes; some works have been adapted for screen.
Trivia
- After graduating university he worked at a bank and left in 1989 to begin writing.
- In 1992 his work 'Enola Gay Shootdown Directive' received an honorable mention in the Japan Mystery Suspense Award.
- 'Detective Spirit' was adapted into a TV drama in 2012.