
Sleeping on Paper Boats
Kami no Fune de Nemuru
Teki Yatsuda
In postwar Japan, a celebrated screenwriter quits because the people he bases characters on keep dying.
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- manga
- Volumes
- 2 in English
- Age rating
- 18+
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Synopsis
Kei Kitahara took the film world by storm. Then he noticed that everyone he wrote into a script met a bad end, and he put down his pen. He is drinking himself toward death when a young amateur photographer pulls him out of the gutter. The newcomer makes him want to write again, which is exactly the danger.
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