The hundredth anniversary of the birth of mystery author Seicho Matsumoto, who wrote the original story on which the current movie hit "Zero no Shoten" is based, continues to be celebrated on the ...

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On Tuesday, NTV's weekly "Drama Complex" series will air a two-hour presentation of master mystery writer Seicho Matsumoto's "Yubi (Finger)" at 9 p.m., a tale of love and hatred played out among an ...

Seichō Matsumoto (松本 清張 Matsumoto Seichō, December 21, 1909 – August 4, 1992) was a Japanese writer. Seichō's works created a new tradition of Japanese crime fiction. Dispensing with formulaic plot ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Set in Tokyo and written in Japanese over 40 years ago, this novel has a contemporary feel to it, possibly because this is a recent ...

Seichō Matsumoto (1909–1992), credited with popularizing detective fiction in Japan, published his first book, Points and Lines, in 1958. He went on to write 30 novels, only a handful of which are ...