Hulu Japan announced on Thursday that it is producing a live-action adaptation of Yukito Ayatsuji’s mystery novel The Decagon House Murders (Jukkakukan no Satsujin) and will premiere on Hulu Japan on March 22. Hulu Japan did not reveal the film’s format. adaptation (film or series).
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Akira Uchikata is directing the film adaptation. Hiroyuki Yatsu (Sōten no Ken: Re:Genesis manga, As the Gods Will live-action film), Madoka Hayano and Kaori Fujii are writing the script.
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Ayatsuji’s original 1987 mystery novel is often credited by mystery fans in Japan with launching the shinhonkaku (New Orthodox) mystery subgenre. This subgenre includes many elements of classic mystery novels, such as complex locked rooms and game-like puzzles where the audience is expected to put the pieces together, but also includes includes elements of postmodernism and metatextual references, moving away from realism and embracing fantasy playfulness, nihilism and absurdity.
Locked Room International published an English translation of the novel (translated by Ho-Ling Wong) in 2015. Pushkin Press published a new version of the book (with the same translation) in May 2021. Pushkin Press describes the novel:
Inspired by Agatha Christie’s locked-room classic And Then There Were None, the scene is this: Members of a college mystery novel club are each given a nickname. a favorite crime writer (Poe, Carr, Orczy, Van Queen, Leroux and—yes—Christie), spends a week on the remote island of Tsunojima, fascinated by the place and its strange 10-sided house , because of a series of murders that occurred the previous year. Of course, that collective curiosity would be their undoing.
As the students approached Tsunojima on a rented fishing boat, the sunlight turned the ripples silver. The island lay before them, enveloped in a veil of dust’, steep, dark cliffs jutting straight out of the sea, accessible by a small bay. There is no electricity and no telephone on the island.
A new series of violent deaths begins, and Ayatsuji’s angry, deft pace drives the story. As each student is singled out, he weaves the story of the investigation into previous murders on the mainland. This is an homage to Golden Age detective fiction, but it is also unabashedly entertaining.”
Hiro Kiyohara launched a manga adaptation of the novel in Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine in August 2019 and ended it in April 2022. The manga’s fifth and final volume was published in May 2022.
Ayatsuji published another mystery horror novel in Japan in 2009. The novel was inspired by the 2012 anime by PA Works, with character designs by Noizi Ito. published a sequel novel titled Another: Episode S in 2013, and a second sequel titled Another 2001 in 2014. Kiyohara launched a manga adaptation of Another in Kadokawa’s Young Ace magazine in 2010 and ended it in 2012. Kadokawa published the four-volume manga Kiyohara also drew the two-chapter Another0 manga in Young Ace in 2012. Yen Press published both the original novel and the manga adaptation in English.
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