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Bringing the story up-to-date with an overview of such Japanese 'enfants terrible' as Takashi Miike (Audition) and Kiyoshi Kurasawa (Cure), this book also provides a compendium of facts and extras including filmographies, related bibliographies on genre fiction including Manga, and a section on female yakuzas. 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Rich in primary, groundbreaking research, GUN AND SWORD is an invaluable reference. - Stuart Galbraith IV, author of The Emperor and The Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune Chris D.'s exhaustive research and dry wit gives us the sense of a dark city detective leading us through the dangerous terrain of an exotic mystery...packed with rare stills and essential, new information on the genre...it is an awesome tome in the true sense of the word. - Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51004892741905,"sku":"NIN9780615798806","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51329288274193,"sku":"CIN0615798802VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615798802.jpg?v=1751359998"},{"product_id":"mother-s-worry-book-chris-d-9780615869346","title":"Mother's Worry","description":"The year is 1987, and outlaw Ray Diamond's mother Lorna is the queenpin of a cesspool of crime and perversion in Mystic, Georgia. 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