Dr. Ichirō Irabu(伊良部 一郎,Irabu Ichirō) is a fictionalpsychiatrist in a series of short stories by Japanese writer Hideo Okuda, originally published primarily in the literary magazineAll Yomimono from August 2000 to January 2006 and later collected in three tankōbon: In the Pool(イン・ザ・プール,In Za Pūru), Kūchū Buranko(空中ブランコ?, "Flying Trapeze") and Chōchō Senkyo(町長選挙?, "Mayoral Election"). Of these, Kūchū Buranko is particularly acclaimed, having won Okuda the 131st Naoki Prize (given for a book published in the first half of 2004) but, as of January 2011, only In the Pool has been published in English. Works in other media based on the stories include a feature film, television drama, stage play and anime series.
Premise
Ichiro Irabu(伊良部 一郎) is a psychiatrist from the Irabu General Hospital. He is fat and pale skinned, with a fetish for administering injections to patients. An unreasonable and rather immature person, he normally ignores Yamashita's plights while challenging him to mid-air trapeze flying due to his self-proclaimed "light-weightedness." During his student days, he frequently misunderstood his lectures. Treated as a general nuisance at the School of Medicine, he entered pediatrics soon after graduation. However, due to claims of his tantrums and quarrels with child patients, he switched to psychiatry instead. Doubts remain about his actual grades.
Two North Korean agents, carrying Japanese passports bearing the names "Shinichi" and "Mayumi", plan to explode a Seoul-bound plane in mid-air. They are diverted to another plane after they have planted the bomb. When the plane crashes, killing all on board, the two plan to commit suicide. The man succeeds, but the woman is saved through medical intervention. When she witnesses the suffering of the surviving families of the bombing victims, she begs to be executed, believing it is the only fitting punishment for her actions.
The film is based on the life of Kim Hyon Hui, a North Korean agent whose Japanese teacher was Yaeko Taguchi, a Japanese abductee; she was paroled in 1998, and 12 years later she met Yaeko's son Kochi and told him that his mother was still alive.
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Telegraph Herald
11 Jul 2024
Telegraph Herald
11 Jul 2024