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椿山課長の七日間
話題の映画原作！ 椿山和昭は働き盛りの46歳。過労で倒れ、現世と来世の中間にある中陰の世界で目が覚める。やり残した仕事、愛する家族を思うと、どうしても自分の死を受け容れられず、現世に戻ることを願い出る。許されたのは初七日までの三日間。中陰でかけられた「邪淫の罪」の疑いも晴らすため、美女の肉体を借り現世に戻るが――。死後の世界を涙と笑いで描いた感動的なファンタジー。
- GenresFiction
400 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2002
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About the author
Jirō Asada
229 books27 followersJirō Asada (浅田 次郎, born December 13, 1951 in Tokyo) is the pen name of Kōjirō Iwato (岩戸 康次郎), a Japanese writer.
Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.
In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was also awarded the Naoki Prize.
He writes not only standard fiction and picaresque novels, but also writes historical and Chinese historical novels such as The Firmament of the Pleiades (Sōkyū no subaru, 蒼穹の昴).
Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies. He changed jobs many times while endeavoring to find writing opportunities, submitting his works to literary competitions.
In 1991, his novel Torarete tamaruka! (とられてたまるか!) started his literary career. After writing several picaresque novels, his novel Metro ni notte (地下鉄に乗って) was awarded the Eiji Yoshikawa Prize for New Writers and made into a 2006 film; a short story collection The Stationmaster and other stories (Poppoya (鉄道員)) was also awarded the Naoki Prize.
He writes not only standard fiction and picaresque novels, but also writes historical and Chinese historical novels such as The Firmament of the Pleiades (Sōkyū no subaru, 蒼穹の昴).
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May 16, 2010
Frivolous--
As a comedy, it's not as good as The Prison Hotel or Kinpika. The concept of coming back to life for three days to take care of unfinished business is interesting, but I felt a lot of the comic material has been recycled from his earlier works (such as his mahjong analogies, the upright yakuza characters, and so forth).
The part about how everyone, including murderers, can go to heaven with a push of a button made me angry. Also irritating was how the two Buddha-like figures go to hell.
Overall, it read like a recycled, shoddy work he wrote without much purpose in mind. There are a few deep messages about human death but the general impression of the book is: frivolous.
As a comedy, it's not as good as The Prison Hotel or Kinpika. The concept of coming back to life for three days to take care of unfinished business is interesting, but I felt a lot of the comic material has been recycled from his earlier works (such as his mahjong analogies, the upright yakuza characters, and so forth).
The part about how everyone, including murderers, can go to heaven with a push of a button made me angry. Also irritating was how the two Buddha-like figures go to hell.
Overall, it read like a recycled, shoddy work he wrote without much purpose in mind. There are a few deep messages about human death but the general impression of the book is: frivolous.
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