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  • Published: 31 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781506703176
  • Imprint: Dark Horse Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $39.99

Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case



When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.

Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa's tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi.

Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love) writes and illustrates a crime and mystery story inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s tales featuring the heroic commissioner Heigo Kobayashi

When the body of a skilled samurai is found along the road to Yamashina in feudal Japan, the search begins for his killer. Detective Heigo Kobayashi takes the case but finds only dead-end clues and no firsthand witnesses.

  • Published: 31 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781506703176
  • Imprint: Dark Horse Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $39.99

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Praise for Rashomon: A Commissioner Heigo Kobayashi Case

"Victor Santos pays homage to the best comics noir . . . and provides his readers with the best example of that type of sequential art since Frank Miller's original Sin City with Polar: Came from the Cold."--Comic Book Bin