Bøger af Jiro Taniguchi

Med "Min fjerne barndomsby" introduceres japansk manga for voksne endelig til danske læsere."Min fjerne barndomsby" er en magisk fortælling sat i realistiske rammer om en midaldrende mands erindring om sin fars pludselige forsvinden; en elegant og overraskende fortælling om drømmen om at starte på ny, at kunne gøre tingene om og genleve de begivenheder i ens liv, der stadig står uforløste hen.Endelig får danske læsere mulighed for at komme tæt på hverdagen i det for mange så eksotiske Japan.

Did the truth about Mallory''s ascent of Mt Everest in 1924 - almost three decades before Hillary - die with him on those unforgiving slopes? Or was the secret buried deep within a simple camera? Taniguchi''s realistic art and Baku''s tireless script will take readers to the heights that only mountaineers dream of.

Tsukiko lever et stille liv med indbyggede vaner. En dag møder hun på sin stambar en ensom, elegant mand, som er mere end 30 år ældre end hende selv. Han virker bekendt, og snart finder hun ud af, at det er hendes tidligere gymnasielærer. Hun er single, han bor alene. Langsomt opstår et tæt forhold mellem den gamle sensei og eleven i et utraditionelt og usædvanligt møde mellem to skæbner, der har meget til fælles, men også gemmer på mange hemmeligheder. "Senseis mappe" er Jiro Taniguchis delikate og intime mangaudgave af forfatteren Hiromi Kawakamis bestsellerroman af samme navn

On his third Everest expedition in June 1924, George Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine disappeared on the North-Eastern ridge during their ascent - having been sighted only a few hundred metres from the summit. In 1993, in a small Nepalese shop, Makoto Fukamachi, photographer for a Japanese expedition to conquer Mount Everest, stumbles across an old camera. Could it be Mallory''s? And does it hold the secret of whether Mallory and Irvine made it to the summit almost 30 years before Hillary?

WHEN MOUNTAIN AND CITY COLLIDE! Mountaineer Shiga made a promise to his best friend following his tragic death in the Himalayas. Twelve years later and he is called upon to honor that promise. When 15-year-old student, Megumi, fails to arrive home from school her mother calls on her dead husband's best friend for help. Shiga abandons his mountain refuge and enters the city to look for the girl. With the police investigation at a standstill, Shiga decides to go it alone. But the metropolis can be a much more hostile and dangerous ground than the mountains. What has happened to the youngster and will Shiga find her before it is too late? Multi-award winning creator, Jiro Taniguchi, builds the tension to a massive climax in this exciting drama!

Take some stress out of your life and relax with The Walking Man a little step every day.

Reads from right to left in the traditional manga fashion.

Kyoto, 1966. The young Hamaguchi is working for a textile manufacturer whilst dreaming of becoming an artist, when an incident at the zoo forces his hand. He moves to Tokyo at the invitation of an old school friend who also arranges an ''interview'' at the studios of the famous mangaka, Shiro Kondo. Here he discovers both the long hours of meeting studio deadlines along with the nightlife and artistic haunts of the capital. For the first time ever, Taniguchi recalls his beginnings in manga and his youth spent in Tokyo in the ''60s. It is a magnificent account of his apprenticeship where all the finesse and elegance of the creator are united to illustrate those first emotions of adulthood. These reflections are made all the more poignant since his sad death on February 11th 2017 aged just 69.

Jiro Taniguchi returns with this delightful and insightful tale of life in a Japan long forgotten. Inspired by an historical figure, Tadataka Ino (1745 - 1818), Taniguchi invites us to join this unnamed but appealing and picturesque figure as he strolls through the various districts of Edo, the ancient Tokyo, with its thousand little pleasures. Now retired from business he surveys, measures, draws and takes notes whilst giving free rein to his taste for simple poetry and his inexhaustible capacity for wonder.

Taniguchi portrays the Venice of today in a most deserving light.

Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old hunter who divulges a strange legend to them. Surrounded by wolves and fighting for their survival, two explorers head for Alaska to bury their companion... 1920s Japan and a man sets out to find the bear that killed his son... A marine biologist begins a quest to find the mythical whale graveyard. Six shorts with as many stories of men confronted with a savage nature, which is sometimes cruel, sometimes forgiving but always vast. Taniguchi at his award-winning best.