Best weird west movies11/14/2023 ![]() ![]() 45 caliber bullet between the eyes or through the heart. Supernatural entities appear, but many of them are perfectly susceptible to a. Jim Rion), “Afterward” in West of Innsmouth 214ĭoes West of Innsmouth actually work as a novel? As a weird western, it plays a balancing act between the realistic and the fantastic. A more serious and interesting question is the addition of weird elements. Japan has had contact with North and South America for centuries, and while that contact was lessened during the isolationist sokakuperiod, by the 1870s gunboat diplomacy had re-established trade and travel, and some Japanese were among the many Asian peoples that immigrated to North America. While the addition of a ninja to a Western milieu may seem odd-or perhaps an episode out of the 1970s Kung Fu television series-there’s no anachronism involved. For example, in real life Wyatt Earp probably did not carry a Buntline special-but he does here, and the character is none the worse for. This is not an historical samurai epic in an exotic locale this is a post- Unforgiven Western, gritty and realistic in parts, with an eye for detail…but with allowances for a few specific callbacks to stories and details that Western fans would recognize. Kikuchi Hideyuki has done his homework, and if some of that research was done reading classic Westerns, it still shows. In 2021 the novel, translated by Jim Rion, was published by Kurodahan Press, who have also published many other Mythos works, such as Kthulhu Reich (2019) by Asamatsu Ken (朝松健). In 2015, his novel Jashin Kettō-den (Legend of the Duel of Evil Gods) was published, a Weird Western which sees a a ninja and a bounty hunter mixed up in a bit of occult business with the Esoteric Order of Dagon…and along the way they pass through Dodge City and Tombstone, and places in between. Fans of anime may recognize him as the author behind the series of Vampire Hunter D novels, or the mind behind Wicked Cityand Demon City Shinjukuwhich have become classics of horror anime films and Original Video Animation. Unfortunately, like a lot of the popular fiction created for Japan, almost none of it is translated for English-speaking audiences. Kikuchi Hideyuki (菊地 秀行) may be one of the most prolific and original Japanese authors of Cthulhu Mythos fiction. Jim Rion), “Afterward” in West of Innsmouth 211 I wanted to capture the blood-pounding, muscle-flexing excitement I’d felt as a kid watching famous Westerns in novel form. Even so, I never gave up that dream of writing a Western. Japan has a similar genre in the jidai shōsetsu (historical samural novels), but their high point, the sword duel, can take such a huge variety of shapes that the wirten word can easily match movies when it comes to tension. I had long thought I wanted to crate an authentic Western. ![]()
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