Nightmare in Bangkok Book Kyoichi Tsuzuki Street Design File 5 Thai Thailand

Description: Nightmare in Bangkok by Kyoichi Tsuzuki. Aspect, Tokyo, 2000. Condition VG+. Just light shelf wear, but still Excellent. " What? I ended up buying the one-armed shopkeeper recovers from famous long-out-of-print weekly magazine called " Jakkawaan", subtitled Universe Weekly in English. Something like a cross between life and newsweek, but with the most hot blooded sensationalist cover art- these recruit, scandalous, bona fied pulp. A quick bit of research identified Jakkawaan, as the National Inquirer of the Thai 1960s. Packed with stories of passion, crime and adventure, the Jakkawaan gained of wide readership among everyone from the working class, to civil servants. Popular authors joined the ranks of its writers and colonists, and supposedly many pieces from these pages were even made into movies. The covers bristle with attention-grabbing titles like" The Vanished Killers" , Before the Clouds Cleared Away", and " The Man Who Was Loved Too Much, but contrary to the blatant sex and grizzly violence of the hard boiled hard sell illustrations, actual contents of the writing was considerably toned down, even mild..."

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