Benkei In New York February 25, 2007
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Writer: Jinpachi Mori
Artist: Jiro Taniguchi
(Artist from <Samurai Legend>)
Description: This is a collection of short stories concerning the titular character, a Japanese painter and barman
in New York.
Benkei is just another expatriate Japanese artist living in the Big Apple. Or so it appears. As these “diabolical
hard-boiled stories” show, surfaces aren’t always what they seem. Flashbacks delve into sordid, secret past lives, and old scores, long festering, emerge without warning, asking to be settled. And Benkei’s secret? Maybe it’s just that he’s the only artist in town who isn’t dreaming of being a hitman-for-hire. He is one.
“Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, genre work in cinema was all about deconstruction. Easy Rider tore down the biker movie. The Godfather slapped the gangster movie down on the slab and operated on it. BENKEI IN NEW YORK has that New Hollywood feel to it, for me. This is the crime story down on the slab and being ever so elegantly dissected. Twisty, enjoyably clever, and ruthlessly violent.” - WARREN ELLIS
Benkei In New York
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