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Kanae Minato
Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. She started writi…
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Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award. In youth, she was an avid fan of mystery novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Maurice Leblanc, Agatha Christie, Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, and Yukito Ayatsuji. The English edition of Minato's Confessions, published in August 2014, was described by a critic as "the Gone Girl of Japan." Wall Street Journal selected Confessions as one of the 10 best mysteries of 2014. (Source: Wikipedia)
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2026
Cry Out
Movie Novel
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2025
Human Specimens
TV show Novel
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2023
Sunset
TV show Novel
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2022
Motherhood
Movie Novel
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2017
Homecoming
Movie Short Story
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2017
Reverse
TV show Novel
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2016
Yamaonna Nikki
TV show Novel
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2016
Night's Tightrope
Movie Novel
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2016
The Exchange Letter
Movie Original Story
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2016
Bōkyō
Movie Short Story
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2016
3 Beautiful Lies
Movie Novel
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2014
Testimony of N
TV show Novel
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2014
The Snow White Murder Case
Movie Novel
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2013
Chain of Flowers
Movie Original Story
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2013
Penance
Movie Novel
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2013
Midnight Ferris Wheel
TV show Novel
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2012
A Chorus of Angels
Movie Original Story
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2012
High School Entrance Exam
TV show Screenplay
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2012
Penance
TV show Novel
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2011
Circumstances
Movie Original Story
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2010
Confessions
Movie Novel
