箱男

aka Hako Otoko

The Box Man

Author

Kōbō Abe

Language

Japanese

Year

1973

Country

Japan

Genre

Novel

east asiamodern japan

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The Box Man is a novel by Kobo Abe, originally published in Japanese in 1973, about a man wearing a cardboard box and his observations of the world outside. It has been made into an eponymous film by Gakuryu Ishii, starring Masatoshi Nagase, which premiered at 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 17 February 2024.