A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she\'s been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise Tokyo, 1979.
Rendered in a gorgeous translation by International Booker-shortlisted Sam Bett, this lean, mean thriller proves that bonds forged in fire are unbreakable..
Could there ever be a different life for two women like them? Akira Otani\'s English-language debut moves boldly through time and across gender, stretching the definitions and possibilities of each concept.
Shindo doubts she and Shoko will survive much longer if nothing changes.
But every man around them is bloodthirsty and trigger-happy.
Originally disdaining her ward, Shindo soon finds herself far more invested in Shoko\'s well-being than she ever expected.
Eighteen-year-old Shoko, pretty and silent as a doll, has no friends, wears strangely old-fashioned clothes, and is completely naive in all matters of life.
After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo is only permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gang\'s boss.
Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza.
A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she\'s been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise Tokyo, 1979
