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Despite Ama's obvious affection, Lui feels disconnected from Ama and continues to have a sexual relationship with Shiba, who is creating an intricate tattoo that covers her entire back. Lui later sees a television news story about a gangster who was beaten to death in
Shinjuku, and makes Ama change his appearance to avoid recognition by the police.
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While the film was in production, Yoshitaka was involved in a serious car accident and spent several days in intensive care before returning to the set. She later claimed that the experience helped her to understand her character's pain. Most of the tattoos and piercings in the film, including Lui's
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Akutagawa Prize announcement ceremony wearing "an off-the-shoulder, cut jersey shirt with exposed bra straps, a flared mini skirt, stiletto heels, mid-thigh nylons, multiple earrings and grey-tinted contact lenses". Press accounts of the event contrasted Kanehara's youthful,
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Japanese literary trends. Pointing specifically to Lui's personal experience of pain as a way to mediate between self and society, Japanese sociologist and poet Kiriu Minashita suggests that the novel is part of an early 21st-century Japanese literary trend in which authors focus on
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by two apparent gangsters, one of whom grabs Lui's breast while insulting her. Ama punches both men. After one of the men flees, Ama continues to beat Lui's attacker, using the heavy rings on his hand to knock out the gangster's teeth. Ama gives the teeth to Lui as a symbol of his love for her.
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had sold over 500,000 copies. Contemporary coverage noted that many middle-aged men bought
Kanehara's work, but preferred the magazine edition to the book edition, as the book cover was designed to appeal to women readers. The unusual sales numbers and media spectacle surrounding the book drew
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film was released in Japan in
September 2008. It ranked 15th at the box office in its opening weekend with approximately US$ 100,000 in gross receipts, and eventually grossed approximately US$ 510,000 in domestic theatrical release. Yoshitaka received a Best Newcomer Award at the 32nd
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was chosen for its marketing value to younger audiences, and that its selection was evidence of declining literary standards, but much of the criticism focused on
Kanehara rather than on the novel. In an English-language review of both Akutagawa Prize winning novels, Janet Ashby of
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Japanese youth culture, but also for the controversial commercialization of its author's personal life. The novel has sold more than a million copies in Japan, has been translated into sixteen languages, and was adapted into a 2008
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drinking alcohol. She then discovers evidence suggesting that Shiba was Ama's rapist and murderer. Lui suspects a previous sexual relationship between Shiba and Ama, but when the police investigator asks her whether Ama was
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artist, who begins the process of inserting progressively larger tongue studs. Lui finds herself interested in Shiba, returns to the shop without Ama, and secretly begins a violent sexual relationship with Shiba involving
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As an elementary school student in Japan, Hitomi
Kanehara lost interest in academic topics and began to skip school in order to socialize with friends. Her father Mizuhito Kanehara, a professor of sociology at
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women's experiences as worthy subjects in their own right, rather than defining those experiences in terms of relationships with men. Literary scholar Eisuke Kotani has further observed that
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image with the image of the "demure and old-fashioned" Wataya. Interviews and photos of the winning authors appeared not only in national newspapers, but also in
Japanese editions of
2059:[She's got what it takes to become a great actress representing Japan! An interview with lead actress Yuriko Yoshitaka from the shocking work Snakes and Earrings].
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Kotani, Eisuke (2023). "一人称リアルタイム語り小説の成立と展開: 新井素子から綿矢りさへ" [The Birth and
Development of First-Person Real-time Narrative Novels: From Motoko Arai to Risa Wataya].
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tongue piercing, were achieved through makeup and computer-generated effects. Kanehara wrote original lyrics for the film's theme song, which was performed by
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received mixed reviews, popular and academic critics have noted its significance in contemporary
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praised the book as "a debut novel about alienation that is shocking but not sensational" and observed that it "offers more than sociological interest".
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DiNitto, Rachel (2011). "Between literature and subculture: Kanehara Hitomi, media commodification and the desire for agency in post-bubble Japan".
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criticized the "element of sexism" in the media hype over the two novelists, but also observed that both stories were "somewhat of a letdown", with
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issue containing the prize-winning stories had sold over 1.1 million copies, doubling the magazine's usual sales, and the book edition of
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concerned its length and ending. While praising Kanehara's detailed descriptions and character development, Prudence Peiffer's review in
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Holloway, David (2018). "The Unmaking of a Diva: Kanehara Hitomi's Comfortable Anonymity". In Miller, Laura; Copeland, Rebecca (eds.).
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Minashita, Kiriu (2014). "書かれた女性の「美」と「身体」" [The "Beauty" and "Body" of a Woman Depicted in Modern Japanese Literary Works].
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sexual activity drives her to make increasingly dangerous personal choices. First published in 2003 in the literary magazine
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2247:[Eiko Koike and Maki Sakai in a sexy miniskirt showdown! Japanese Movie Critics Awards announced].
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1085:(in Swedish). Translated by Helen Enoksson. Modernista. 2009.
923:(in Catalan). Translated by Albert Mas-Griera. Columna. 2005.
1509:"Young prize-winners taking Japanese literary scene by storm"
1013:(in Greek). Translated by Giannis Spandonis. Oceanida. 2006.
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Peiffer, Prudence (March 15, 2005). "Snakes and Earrings".
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A young woman named Lui admires her new boyfriend Ama's
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1568:"Just 20, She Captures Altered Japan in a Debut Novel"
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Karbo, Karen (May 27, 2005). "Snakes and Earrings".
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2213:[51st Blue Ribbon Awards].
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1938:(in Japanese). September 26, 2007.
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1171:Neustatter, Angela (May 29, 2005).
544:After winning the Akutagawa Prize,
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2181:"第32回日本アカデミー賞最優秀賞発表！『おくりびと』が総なめ!!"
2001:(in Japanese). November 21, 2007.
1692:. Translated by Karashima, David.
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1532:"New Akutagawa winners offer hope"
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1373:[Subaru Literary Prize].
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1920:. No. 821/822. p. 146.
1634:"Japanese Bestseller for Dutton"
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2025:"痛さで生を実感 「蛇にピアス」主演・吉高由里子"
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