
Cigarette Girl
55%
MANGA • 1972
status
Completed
start-date
null/null/1972
end-date
null/null/1974
country-origin
JP
popularity
325
studios
synonyms
Tabakoya no Musume
La Fille du bureau de tabac
A shared cigarette offers a momentary connection. A closet hides the evidence of an embarrassed bachelor's laziness. A single woman, not getting any younger, sifts through letters from would-be husbands. A new couple buys two train tickets to anywhere.
Here are the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as "gekiga." Originally published in 1972-1974, these eleven stories now form the first English-language collection of Matsumoto's mature work. His shy, uncertain heroes face broken hearts, changing families, money troubles, sexual anxiety, and the pressures of tradition, but with a whimsy and lightness of touch that is Matsumoto's trademark.
(Source: Top Shelf Productions)