The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese
窮鼠はチーズの夢を見る (Kyuuso wa Cheese no Yume o Miru)
Setona Mizushiro
A private eye hired to catch a cheating husband turns out to be the college junior who has loved that husband for years.
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- manga
- Volumes
- 2 in English
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Track record The 2020 live-action film opened at number 5 in Japan. Source: Wikipedia
Our take
A married man who cannot say no is blackmailed, then loved, by a younger man from his college days. Adult, messy and unsentimental.
Synopsis
Kyoichi drifts into affairs because he cannot say no. When his wife hires an investigator, the man who shows up is Imagase, an old acquaintance who has carried a torch for him since university. Imagase offers silence for a price that starts with a kiss. What follows is a tangled adult drama about two men who each want more than the other can give. The story concludes in The Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice.
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- Also adapted: Live-action film.
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English publisher: Seven Seas.
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