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Prison Hotel #2
プリズンホテル ２ 秋
おなじみ大曽根一家御一行と、酒癖の悪さで有名な警視庁青山警察の慰安旅行が重なったり、元アイドル歌手とその愛人がお忍びで現われたりと、何が起こってもおかしくない一髪触発の事態に、ホテルの支配人の花沢は青ざめた。愛憎ぶつかる温泉宿の一泊二日。笑えて、泣けて、眠れない。シリーズ第二作。
387 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2001
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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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January 29, 2022
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After visiting a Japanese hot spring hotel/onsen hotel for the very first time this month, I am happy to be re-reading Prison Hotel: Autumn by Jiro Asada, the second book of Asada's comedy series about a hot spring hotel owned and ran by a 'retired' yakuza boss and his loyal sidekicks.
By mistake, a group of police booked themselves into Prison Hotel, a traditional Japanese hot spring hotel ran by a 'retired' yakuza boss. What will happen next?
This time, the main plot about 'cops and gangsters in the same hot spring hotel' is highly comical but how this confrontation ends is quite underwhelming. The parts I truly enjoy are the parts about the ill-tempered novelist taking his mistress's 5 years old daughter to the Prison Hotel for the holiday, the interaction between these two are amusing and . So, 3.5 stars.
'~We are the Imperial Army~~our nemesis are~~~~traitors who have no place on this Earth~~'
--a military song from the WWII, a favorite for some of the Prison Hotel's guests (e.g. old fashioned gangsters and far-rightists).
'Doctors, teachers and cops, they are the worst kinds when they get drunken.'
--a comment from the hotel manager.
'If they were honorable people wearing sakura, then we were yakuza holding the sakura badge. Under the sun, there can only be one group bearing the mark of sakura. Let's find out which group shall it be!'
--a cop declaims war against the gangsters in Prison Hotel
After visiting a Japanese hot spring hotel/onsen hotel for the very first time this month, I am happy to be re-reading Prison Hotel: Autumn by Jiro Asada, the second book of Asada's comedy series about a hot spring hotel owned and ran by a 'retired' yakuza boss and his loyal sidekicks.
By mistake, a group of police booked themselves into Prison Hotel, a traditional Japanese hot spring hotel ran by a 'retired' yakuza boss. What will happen next?
This time, the main plot about 'cops and gangsters in the same hot spring hotel' is highly comical but how this confrontation ends is quite underwhelming. The parts I truly enjoy are the parts about the ill-tempered novelist taking his mistress's 5 years old daughter to the Prison Hotel for the holiday, the interaction between these two are amusing and . So, 3.5 stars.
May 7, 2010
Great--
I couldn't put it down. Jiro Asada has the rare gift of portraying outlaws and deficient humans and making them go through Dostoevskian changes and revelations, and he does it with laugh-out-loud humor and genuine human warmth. The upshot is a whirlwind of a story with real emotional resonance.
Simply, unforgettable and infinitely enjoyable.
Hats off to the master.
I couldn't put it down. Jiro Asada has the rare gift of portraying outlaws and deficient humans and making them go through Dostoevskian changes and revelations, and he does it with laugh-out-loud humor and genuine human warmth. The upshot is a whirlwind of a story with real emotional resonance.
Simply, unforgettable and infinitely enjoyable.
Hats off to the master.
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