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Tada Convenience House in Front of Mahoro Station (Original Movie of the Same Name)

Miura Shion

115K8.26

Eita and Ryuhei Matsuda star in the original movie of the same name. Two divorced men with old wounds, a convenience house trying to solve real-life problems. "Mahoro Ekimae Tada Convenience House" tells the story of the major and minor incidents that two divorced men encountered while working as a "convenience house". Keisuke Tada runs a convenience house in front of Mahoro Station that helps people solve their problems. This job allows him to step into many people's homes as an outsider and get involved in some troubles whether he likes it or not. Not long after New Year's Day one year, he came out of a client's house and "picked up" Haruhiko Gyoten, his high school classmate, at the bus stop. Gyoten, who was silent to the point of eccentricity in his student days, had an unknown holiday with Tada, so Tada let Gyoten, who had nowhere to go, stay in his office and home. Unexpectedly, he would stay there year after year.

The Story of Weaving a Boat (original Work of the Movie of the Same Name)

Miura Shion

112K03

The acclaimed film of the same name, starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Aoi Miyazaki, and Joe Odagiri, swept the 37th Japan Film Academy Awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The work of Miura Shion, winner of the Naoki Prize, won the NO.1 Japan Bookstore Award. Xuanwu Shufang planned to publish a medium-sized dictionary "Daduhai" for contemporary people. This work was presided over by Mr. Matsumoto, an experienced and meticulous scholar. Unexpectedly, his most valued editor, Araki Koji, had reached the age of retirement and chose to go home to take care of his sick wife. At this time, the only people in the editorial department were the impetuous Masashi Nishioka and the temporary worker Sasaki. Araki and Nishioka searched many places and finally fell in love with Ma Diguangya, a young man in the sales department who was not good at interacting with people but had a keen awareness of words and was extremely dedicated to his work. In the vast ocean of words, Ma Di and his colleagues spent fifteen years building a boat sailing to the other shore. They are willing to be lonely, but they also reap precious happiness...

The Tama River at Night: Ordinary People's Happy Daily Lives

Miura Shion

82K01

Miura Shion said: The articles I usually write are almost clumsy, but this book is different. This book can be said to be a work that I wrote seriously! Although what is recorded in the book is "ordinary slow-paced life", it is these ordinary happy daily lives that make us feel: for ordinary us, life is not always satisfactory. But no matter how difficult, cruel or ordinary life is, we must live passionately and live like a real person.

Mahoro Station Extra Place (original Japanese Drama of the Same Name)

Miura Shion

104K01

Eita and Ryuhei Matsuda star in the original Japanese drama of the same name. "Mahoro Ekimae Extra Land" still tells the story of Tada Convenience House. As a sequel to "Mahoro Ekimae Tada Convenience House", Tada and Xingtian's convenience house continues, and their encounters with all kinds of people also continue. The young underworld boss Hoshi, the big lucky cake-like old lady Soneda, the withdrawn elementary school student Yura, and Mrs. Oka with a paranoid wife who appeared in the first part continue their new stories in this book... The convenience house in front of Mahoro Station has also welcomed new customers: a shrewd and capable widowed female president, a young female white-collar worker who hates her colleague's diamond ring, and a mother who cares about family health management. While getting involved in the lives of these familiar and unfamiliar people, the relationship between Tada and Xingtian also undergoes various subtle changes. Sip the warmth and warmth of the world and watch for the return of happiness. The weak but shimmering convenience house, the domesticated and domesticated Tada and Xingtian, where will they go in the end?

The Rapture in Front of Mahoro Station (original Movie of the Same Name)

Miura Shion

181K0

Eita and Ryuhei Matsuda star in the original movie of the same name. The finale of the Mahoro Ekimae trilogy! The convenience house encounters the greatest crisis in history, and Tada and Xingtian will face the emotional truth and the black hole in their hearts. In "The Rapture in front of Mahoro Station", Tada and Gyoten are disgusted with each other and support each other. As they usher in the new year, Tada's convenience house once again faces various strange tasks: climbing on the roof to remove the quilt blown away by the strong wind, acting as a private detective to monitor the vegetable garden suspected of spraying pesticides all night; pretending to be a cram school teacher to take out the elementary school students who are forced to farm; quelling the bus hijacking farce and disrupting the turf war at the south entrance of the station. At the same time, they will also encounter the biggest crisis in history: living with Xingtian's four-year-old daughter, whom they have never met. However, it was this agonizing month and a half that made Tada and Xingtian face the black hole in their hearts and the scars in their souls, re-examine themselves and their memories, and bravely overcome the pain and move toward rebirth. What is revived is the ability to love, what is awakened is the impulse to laugh. What kind of tomorrow will Tada Convenience House's white pickup truck head towards?

Miura Shion's Novel Collection (set of 3 Volumes)

Miura Shion

430K0

This book is a set collection by Shion Miura, consisting of "The Loveless World", "Lonely Tokyo" and "The God Goes to the Village (New Edition)". "The World Without Love": won the Special Award from the Botanical Society of Japan for the first time! Shion Miura's new novel Warmth Comes has received five-star reviews from Amazon readers. The weeds on the roadside and the ordinary people are all working hard to live their lives. This is a novel that makes people feel moved again. "Lonely Tokyo": "A new work by female writer Miura Shion, who won the Naoki Award and the Honya Grand Prize, pays tribute to the classic work "Snow" by Junichiro Tanizaki. A story about life in Tokyo that transcends loneliness. "Where God Goes to the Village (New Edition)" One day, we can all choose how to live according to our own state of mind.

Loveless World

Loveless World

General Fiction

Miura Shion

186K01

Won the special award from the Botanical Society of Japan for the first time! Shion Miura's new novel Warmth Comes has received five-star reviews from Amazon readers. The weeds on the roadside and the ordinary people are all working hard to live their lives. This is a novel that makes people feel moved again. A brand new work by Miura Shion, the author of "Strong Wind" and "Weaving a Boat", this time ignites readers' awe and emotion towards nature. Western restaurant apprentice Fujimaru Yota is in love with botanical researcher Saei Motomura, but Saei is more interested in plants than food and people... Around Saei, there are a group of "otaku freaks" like Saei: a professor who looks like a killer, an old professor who studies cassava, and a junior who accidentally enlarges a cactus. They seem to be uneducated by society, but they respect life more than anyone else because of their passion for plants. Inspired and moved, Yota seems to understand better why the girl in front of him is "weird" and cute... So, his love rival is actually a weed? ! They devote their passion to solving the mystery of life and death of every living thing and letting us see the power and light of life. This is a super easy-to-read, interesting, and exciting work that shows us the "normal" life of a mysterious botanist and makes everyone feel the respect and greatness of life.

Lonely Tokyo

Lonely Tokyo

General Fiction

Miura Shion

141K02

The new work of female writer Miura Shion, who won the Naoki Prize and the Honya Grand Prize, pays tribute to the classic work "Snow" by Junichiro Tanizaki. A story about life in Tokyo that transcends loneliness. In an old Western-style building in Suginami District, Tokyo, lived the Makita family, mother and daughter, and two tenants. Divorced mother, older unmarried daughter, independent and vicious Yukino, and Taemi who was hurt by a domestic violence man. They have very different personalities and different life experiences, but they form an incredible emotional connection in this house. Everyone is not perfect, but they protect each other in the days like water and give each other the rare warmth in this lonely city. Until an unexpected discovery allowed them to uncover the mysterious past... Focusing on women's survival rules and loved ones across blood lines, the delicate and warm emotions blended with the cold and ruthless city, showing the independence and bravery of Tokyo women.

Strong Wind Blows (2023 Version)

Miura Shion

246K9.118

Ten roommates from the Kansei University dormitory "Takejoso" formed a miscellaneous long-distance running team. Under the devilish training of team leader Kiyose Haiji, they started from scratch and headed towards the "Hakone Ekiden", Japan's oldest long-distance running relay race. These ten college students include two deserters from the track and field team, a pair of nervous and noisy twins, a handsome cartoon otaku, a ten thousand year repeater with nicotine poisoning, a vicious elite with strong logic, a black international student who doesn't like running, an honest and good young man, and the king of guessing games with perfect answers. These "athletes" didn't even know they were on the track and field team when they first started, and half of the members had no long-distance running experience. Can they create the biggest miracle in the history of "Hakone Ekiden"? No one knows the answer until the last shot.