The Box Man (novel)

The Box Man (箱男, Hako Otoko) is a novel by Kobo Abe, originally published in Japanese in 1973, about a man wearing a cardboard box and his observations of the world outside.^[1][2][3] It has been made into an eponymous film by Gakuryu Ishii, starring Masatoshi Nagase, which premiered at 74th Berlin International Film Festival on 17 February 2024.^[4][5]

External links

• An essay about the photographs that appear in The Box Man on the Writing with Images blog.