Abduction in Chinatown: Crying Freeman

By Kazuo Koike

Freeman falls prey to a gang of militaristic mercenaries whose beautiful, twisted female leader will stop at nothing to have him all to herself. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569311358
• ISBN13: 9781569311356
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

First Class Story, First Class Manga

My sister Tiffany and I turned 21 just three days before we graduated from college. My old dad had promised us each a new car if we made it all the way through in 4 years. Nothing like the promise of a new car to keep a girl's nose to the grindstone. However, when the time came, we didn't want the car. Instead we asked if we could use the money to spend a year in Paris, which was kind of dumb, because we'd studied Spanish all through college and didn't speak a word of French, well, ballet and filet, but that's it. We got a flat near the Bois de Boulogne and had the time of our lives. But we studied too, worked very hard at French and we did that by reading hundreds of the French version of manga, which they call bande desine. We read PI stories, thrillers, combat and cowboy stories. Our favorite was this French cartoon caricature of an American cowboy called Lucky Luke, who could draw quicker than his shadow. But after that year was though I'd never picked up another Graphic Novel. Too much like comic books I thought. Then my sis sent me this "Crying Freeman" manga in the mail and I have to say I was captivated by Ryoichi Ikegami's superb black and white illustrations. Kazuo Koike's story was first class, but I believe it lost just a wee bit of it's punch in the translation. And I couldn't quite grasp why the female characters waltzed, ran, jumped and fought, sans clothing through the whole book. Kind of a guy thing, I guess. You know, they like looking a drawings of naked women. But nevertheless, much to my surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Reviewed by Stephanie Sane

The art was beautiful... couldn't say the same for the story

Like most people who couldn't read Japanese, I got the English translation of Crying Freeman. The first book of the series, Portrait of a Killer was promising in that the story was sort of believable. A Taste of Revenge follows up on two minor characters from the first book. Being the enemies of Freeman, both Kimie Hanada and Det. Nitta wanted revenge. How the story finally turned out was a surprise. Mixed into the revenge story was a plot of a certain cult to take over Japan. Compared to Portrait of a Killer, this story was mildly preposterous. As usual, the hero was practically invincible, and sexy. And I'll leave it at that. The artwork was beautiful as usual.

Beautifully illustlated story of violence and love

Ryoichi Ikegami, a Japanese Gekiga illustrator known his fluent and sexy paintings. Men and women he paints are beautiful, realistic and sexy. I love them! A young and promising Japanese ceramist is kidnapped by HongKong mafia and made up to be an assassin. After the long and tough training, he becomes an expert assassin and the leader of the family. Once he was seen his killing by a Japanese woman and try to kill her, but they fall in love and get married. This story is about the adventure of violence and love. Sometimes Ikegami's works go too far to the extent of losing its realism, but in this series, well maintained.