#Lady Joker

[mrsjellymunson]

Okay, I need cheering up. It’s my birthday 🎂, and I’ve woken up with costochondritis 🙄, so with that on top of *waves at generally everything* I’m feeling pretty sorry for myself. Fortunately, a friend gave me a gift wrapped with this paper that has my Lady Joker costume face on it! How cool is that?!

If anyone fancies sending anygood wishes/fun things/silliness my way, I would absolutely love it and love you forever.

(I guess this counts as a face reveal, although you might not recognise me in the street unless I was dressed like this all over again 🤣)

Tagging some friends + moots who might like to see this/where the crazy comes from 😆 @joejoequinnquinn @jamdoughnutmagician @guiltyasquinn @airen256 @sunshinepeachx @the-unforgivenn @80s-addict @munson-blurbs @wonderlanddreamer @maedesculpaeusoubi @mediocredreams @rebelfell @pedroschka @bettyfrommars @somnambulic-thing @ghost-proofbaby

[poetlcs]

books read in 2024 - no. 10

lady joker by kaoru takamura (trnsl.  marie lida &  allison markin powell )

[very-grownup]

There was something terrifying about getting old. It couldn't be helped that you started to lose various things, one by one, but aging meant there would be nothing to fill those voids. Exactly a year ago, when he became aware of such hollows opening here and there, a desolate misery had begun to haunt him no matter what he did, and the fiend that writhed within him at those times might have been different from the one that had surfaced fifty years ago in Hachinohe -- perhaps it was a deformation of this old age. Had Lady Joker come about in defiance of his aging, as an attempt to elude it? But as this occurred to him, with signs of his old age setting in and constricting the air around him, he could only conclude that this new fiend had also been a misfire, leaving Monoi slightly bewildered and with no choice but to question himself anew -- Is this how you're going to end up?

- Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura

[world-literatures]

just read: Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura

This is a complex crime fiction novel loosely based upon the Monster with 21 Faces case. It's also quite lengthy, to me possibly slightly overlong, but still very well plotted and paced.

I'd describe this book as challenging, but rewarding. It's detailed and complex, with a large cast of characters which weave in and out of the narrative. An expansive look at modern Japan, capitalism, greed and crime this novel is thematically rich and immersive.

Some parts were more entertaining then others and yet, I never felt my interest waning. I did find some of the cultural touchpoints and references eluded me - a Japanese person I think would feel more connected to this. And yet I was happy to come along for the ride anyway.

One highlight is the translation - it's excellently done. Meticulous prose that never feels clunky or confusing.

genres: crime

translator:  Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell

rating: no rating

themes: capitalism and greed, corporate corruption, crime and justice, post-war Japan

One of Japan’s great modern masters, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with this two-volume publication of her magnum opus.

Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-War Japan: a poorly socialized genius stuck working as a welder; a demoted detective with a chip on his shoulder; a Zainichi Korean banker sick of being ostracized for his race; a struggling single dad of a teenage girl with Down syndrome. The fifth man bringing them all together is an elderly drugstore owner grieving his grandson, who has died suspiciously after the revelation of a family connection with the segregated buraku community, historically subjected to severe discrimination.

Intent on revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist: kidnap the CEO of Japan’s largest beer conglomerate and extract blood money from the company’s corrupt financiers.

Inspired by the unsolved true-crime kidnapping case perpetrated by "the Monster with 21 Faces", Lady Joker has become a cultural touchstone since its 1997 publication, acknowledged as the magnum opus by one of Japan’s literary masters, twice adapted for film and TV and often taught in high school and college classrooms.

[ladyjoker01]

Lady Joker

It's not my art, I just edited it (color)

Original characters: Ara Haan - Elsword Artist: @kurisucurry (On twitter)

[alasion-art]

Unwilling revolutionary 💢

[cheeriosgreg]

So in Joker 2 filmmakers raise the question: what if there was a lady Joker?

[booksofdelight]

Lady Joker Book Guide and Review

Read the Lady Joker Book Guide and Review to see if this series is for you!

The Lady Joker volumes by Kaoru Takamura and translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida are epic mystery novels. They tell the tale of a kidnapping in Japan and what follows once they release the hostage. Find out the what we thought of the books in our Lady Joker book guide and review article! Lady Joker Books Lady Joker Volume One Lady Joker Volume Two Lady Joker Series Summary The…

[carnicer01]

Now the winner gets his prize! Come get your momma!

[jokerous]

JOKER (2019) // JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (2024)

I'll tell you what's changed. I'm not alone anymore.

[dailyflicks]

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Official Trailer

[very-grownup]

First there was his dissatisfaction when Haruko chose Sugihara as her fiance thirty years ago. Haruko, blessed with intelligence, a cheerful personality, and a fairly attractive appearance, had always been much sought after and received plenty of arranged marriage proposals, but the suitor whom Haruko chose herself was someone who worked under Shiroyama when he was sales manager at the Yokohama branch. Shiroyama had never understood the female psychology that led Haruko to select a man who was, in Shiroyama's eyes, the most kind-hearted, the most handsome, and the most mediocre of the men he knew at the company.

- Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura

[the-big-mood]

[timbit-robin-art]

I feel sad -> I reread my favorite Tim storylines -> I instantly feel better about my life.

[animusrox]

Joker (2019) dir. Todd Phillips Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) dir. Todd Phillips

[daily-joker]

JOKER (2019) JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX (2024)