The Walking Man (Aruku hito) [Perfect Edition]

[Machine Translation] The original NHK TV drama, now in a complete edition! The masterpiece by Jiro Taniguchi, a manga artist who was awarded the Chevalier de la Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France, is now available for the first time in a complete edition that includes all episodes and reproduces color pages! This work will be dramatized for the first time on NHK BS4K8K from April 2020 to March 2021! ( Starring Arata Iura and Tomoko Tabata ) The following four points are the main features of this complete edition. First publication in B5 size. The book is bound in Codex binding, which opens up to the throat, to allow the reader to enjoy the detailed illustrations (color pages are also reproduced in full). The special edition of "Walking Hito," which was illustrated for the TOKYO CITY GUIDE 2011 published by LOUIS VUITTON in 2010, is included in the book for the first time in Japanese and for the first time in the world. Film director Hirokazu Kore-eda's first contribution on Taniguchi Jiro is included in the book (newly written). It includes the author's recent report from the time of the serialization and the editor in charge of the book looking back on those days. The result is a beautiful and profound book that allows the reader to leisurely enjoy the amazingly detailed manuscript. Please enjoy the world of this work, which is similar to "The Gourmet of Solitude" (original work: Masayuki Kusumi).

NHKTVドラマ化原作、完全版で登場! フランス文化勲章シュヴァリエ受章の漫画家・谷口ジロー氏が、世界に「発見」されることになった名作が、初の全エピソード収録&カラーページ再現の完全版として登場! 本作は2020年4月~2021年3月まで、NHK BS4K8Kにて初のテレビドラマ化に!(主演:井浦新、田畑智子) 今回の完全版では、以下の4点が大きな特長です。■初のB5サイズで刊行。製本は喉元までしっかり開く「コデックス装」を採用し、緻密な描き込みを堪能できる仕様に(カラーページも完全再現)。■2010年にLOUIS VUITTONが刊行した「TOKYO CITY GUIDE2011」に描き下ろされた『歩くひと』の特別編を初邦訳・全世界で初めて単行本に収録。■映画監督・是枝裕和氏が初めて谷口ジローについて書いた寄稿文を掲載(書き下ろし) ■購入特典として「別冊読本 谷口ジローが『歩くひと』を描いた日々」を封入。連載当時の著者「近況報告」や、担当編集者が当時を振り返る文章等を掲載。驚くほど精緻に描かれた原稿をゆったりと堪能できる、美しく奥深い本に仕上がりました。『孤独のグルメ』(原作:久住昌之)にも連なる作品世界をご堪能ください。