This expansive mystery depicts a serial kidnapping and murder case and the victims' families, media, and community caught in its wake. Beyond the terror of a public, theatrical crime, it carefully follows how the case invades people's memories and lives.

One crime spreads into a vast darkness, drawing in family, media, and the language of society.

This critical work considers the book as a physical object and as text, ranging from antiquity and modernity to Mallarme and electronic reading environments. It rethinks the relationships between reading, seeing, and preserving.

A study of the book that traces what a book is from both material and intellectual perspectives.

Beginning from a study of Hideo Kobayashi, this literary criticism ranges across modern Japanese literature, thought, romance, and historical consciousness to consider the end of the idea of youth. It places literary history within a broad cultural history.

A work of criticism that reads the end of youth as a historical sensibility from within modern literature.

This ensemble youth novel follows university students resisting the closure of their dormitory, drawing in the adults connected to it as they try to protect their place. Behind the brightness of rebellion lie youthful impatience and attachment to community.

A small rebellion to save a student dormitory reveals young people's friendship and longing for a place to belong.

This film centers on a married couple living in Kagoshima with memories of war, portraying the pain of a surviving special-attack pilot and how those left behind face life. Quiet marital love overlaps with the wounds of history.

The silence of a war survivor and the time shared by a couple meet on the Kagoshima coast.