老人賭博

Kenzo Kaneko, a masseur who lives for comic films, meets the director Goro Kaiba as a client and talks his way into becoming his apprentice. His first location is a deserted shopping street in a fading Kitakyushu town. To pass the time on a shoot that refuses to go well, cast and crew think up a wager: how many times will Taiji Koseki, an actor of seventy-eight playing his first leading role, get his lines wrong? Local delinquents and a mysterious gravure model are drawn in, and the heartless game pushes toward an unpredictable climax that shows people at their meanest and their most noble.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

204 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2009 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9784163287508 (original)