2007年7月2日月曜日

Book Review1-11

I read the book" The Big Picture". I talk about this story.
Kenji Harada is a photographer and has a Nikon camera and a darkroom in his flat. He sometimes gets a lot of money for his photos, but sometimes very little. Now he is not so rich. He had his family, but they couldn't live together. One day, he saw a famous sumo star Takahanada and his new girlfriend Kumiko Okada at the street! He took the photo about them soon. He expected he could sell the photo for millions of yen. He got into the taxi after that. Then he looked another taxi next to his taxi and in a man who had a gun. The man tried to aim him. So the taxi driver stared to go very fast. He managed to escape from the man. He went to back to his flat later and everything in his flat was broken. He telephoned the police and two policemen came. But they were not good and went back soon. Later he went to Left Luggage at Tokyo Station and then he put the envelope with the film in locker93. The moment he went out of the station, a big fat man took him away. The man was Yakuza and asked him where the film was. He answered it was in Left Luggage at Shibuya Station and number42. The fat man put something over his mouth and tied his arms to the chair with ropes. He kept waiting in the dark room for a long time. The man came again and started to take the things off his eyes and mouth and take the ropes off. He thought it was chance to escape. So he pushed the fat man and managed to escape. Then he read the newspaper. According to it, Yakuza gang man Toru Sato killed in Tokyo Street. It was the street where he took the photograph of Takahanada and Kumiko Okada. He went to Tokyo Central Police Station soon. He told Chief Inspector everything quickly. And they went to Tokyo Station and there arrested the man. The man was murder and killed Toru Sato. Later, he knew the reason why he was aimed. Hiromitsu Shioiri and dead Toru Sato appeared on his picture with Takahanada and Kumiko!! He sold the photo for sixty million yen and became rich. So he began to live with his lovely family in the country.
This story is too long to summarize and too strange. I think this author is foreigner who makes an ironical remark about Japanese culture. I was surprised that this story looked fiction a lot. It makes foreigners have bad image for Japan. I don't like this story so much. Next time I want to read a good story about Japan!!

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