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Ian Thompson

CMLIT 131

6 November 2018

Culture Influences Detection

"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it,

and disputed against it." —— Novalis.

If Conan Doyle pioneered the era of the first detective novel, Agatha Christie

created the second era of detective novels, then the third era of detective novels was

kicked off in Japan. Detective novels originated in Europe and the United States. After

being introduced to Asia, they evolved into mystery novels in Japan, and gradually

produced multiple genres. In general, Japanese style of writing is different with the

European’s in many ways. In order to help readers have a deeper understanding of our

topic, I have done a lot of research and I’d like to compare some specific examples of

Asian detective stories and American & European detective stories. I really enjoy the

book called Real World by Natsuo Kirino, so I will compare this book to the film, Fritz

Lang, M.

Throughout the history of the development of Japanese reasoning literature, we

were surprised to find that the reasoning literature was introduced into Japan as a

foreign literature, and in the new century, it was listed as the five national quintessence

of Japan together with sumo, tea ceremony, manga, and Kabuki. Inferential literature

has undergone numerous changes in Japan. This is not only a change in literary form,

but also a change in Japanese society and a change in the whole Japanese era.

Meanwhile, we find that in Japanese detection, crime is not the only subject. It is no

Xie �2 longer a simple case, but is organically combined with various elements such as

science fiction, history, and love, thus bringing Japanese literature to a new height. By

comparison, European Detection always focus on the importance to write the mystery

novels in a realistic way. Every plot development of the case is reasonable and will not

be completely separated from real life like some works in the original reasoning. At the

same time, through the confusing cases, the whole society is reflected. After digging

deeper to our topic, my question will be: How can our specific text and evidence

reveals all the differences and how do American & European detective writer improve

the world of novel?

As a woman, most of Kirino’s works are about women. She has done great job

in describing the weird fantasies of woman’s inner world. Firstly, In the book of Real

World, there is a specific plot, Worm asks another of Toshi's friends - the brooding

Terauchi - to write his manifesto, something for the media to publish if he gets caught.

He tells her, "It doesn't have to be long, but something that's better than what that

killer Sakakibara wrote," that Sakakibara is actually a real-life 14-year-old who, in 1997,

murdered two Japanese schoolchildren. This reveals that Japanese novels sometimes

related to our life and it usually have deeper warnings behind each story. And in the

film, M, In order to catch the murderer, the police met to discuss; and the gang

members also gathered to discuss the same issue. Although for different purposes,

both the police and the gangs hope to bring the murderer to justice. The director used

montage and similar sets to highlight the parallel nature of the two meetings. It seems

to tell us that in the face of such cruel and perverted criminals, the positive (police) evil

(gangster) opposition in the usual sense was completely eliminated. The gang is illegal

again, and it also abides by the principle of humanity, while M is anti-human. He is

Xie �3 absolutely evil. Furthermore, in one specific shot, a little girl patted the ball before the

notice, then hit the racket on the post with the notice, and the camera stayed on the

notice with the movement of the ball.

Kirino calls attention to the reality of contemporary Japanese teen alienation by

writing a novel in which the reader is totally alienated from its narrators. Throughout the

whole story of Real World, I always want to ask what the author want to express? And

why she set the examples of real teenagers? A solemn trial of a criminal by a group of

criminals is really a pleasure. The gangster’s jury’s heated accusations against the

other murderer have also baptized the viewers by the power of justice. I wonder that if

is a real reflect of Justice? Can justice be expressed in any form from anyone’s hands?

After watching this film, only the horrible shadow, the hat, the back is left on the

overnight poster of the "reward of 10,000 mark", and the whistle is left on the street to

sell the balloon to the blind old man. in. The dark shadows of horror and the cheerful

whistles are combined. There is no game here, only death. Who is the murderer and

who is the murderer? Starting from the game, is it going to end from the game?