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Kobo Abe’s Novel ‘The Box Man,’ a Being Free of Everything, Adapted for Screen; Film Comes to Fruition After 27 years

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By Yoshida Kiyohito / The Yomiuri Shimbun

18:13 JST, September 19, 2024

Wearing a cardboard box as armor, the box man is trying to make the world his own.

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