All of Us Strangers [Movie Tie-in]
A Novel

One of those weird Japanese novels that you don't read for the minimalist prose. Instead, you read it for the magical essence that comes out of very imaginative situations. I think it would greatly benefit if you can go in blindly, but I don't know how possible it is nowadays, considering its recent......more

Very brief, this reads quickly & it is easy to read as well. If, like myself, you are a fan of Japanese ghost stories, you're going to see the end coming on this one right away so that kind of spoiled it for me, because this story is very much in line with the old traditional type of ghostly tale fr......more

Taichi Yamada este unul dintre cei mai cunoscuti scriitori si scenaristi japonezi. A avut succes si a fost rasplatit cu premii pentru activitatea la studioul de film Shochiku, dar si ca scriitor. A scris romane ca "N-am mai visat de mult ca zbor", "In cautarea unei voci indepartate" ori "Straini". "I......more

I'd never have heard of this book if not for the recent film All of Us Strangers (which is terrific, by the way). Its screenplay is loosely based on this story, with some significant changes. The narrator Hideo is a Japanese screenwriter in his 40s, recently divorced. He's not on the best of terms wi......more