Kanae Minato
Writer
January 1, 1973 (53 years)
Minato Kanae is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.
She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award.
In youth, she was an avid fan of mystery novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Maurice Leblanc, Agatha Christie, Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, and Yukito Ayatsuji.
The English edition of Minato's Confessions, published in August 2014, was described by a critic as "the Gone Girl of Japan."
Wall Street Journal selected Confessions as one of the 10 best mysteries of 2014.
(Source: Wikipedia)
She started writing in her thirties. Her first novel Confessions became a bestseller and won the Japanese Booksellers Award.
In youth, she was an avid fan of mystery novels of Edogawa Ranpo, Maurice Leblanc, Agatha Christie, Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, and Yukito Ayatsuji.
The English edition of Minato's Confessions, published in August 2014, was described by a critic as "the Gone Girl of Japan."
Wall Street Journal selected Confessions as one of the 10 best mysteries of 2014.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Known For
Filmography
| 2026 | Mirai · as Novel |
| 2025 | Human Specimens · as Novel |
| 2023 | Sunset · as Novel |
| 2022 | Motherhood · as Novel |
| 2019 | Poison Daughter, Holy Mother · as Novel |
| 2017 | Reverse (JP) · as Novel |
| 2016 | Night's Tightrope · as Novel |
| 2014 | Testimony of N · as Novel |
| 2014 | The Snow White Murder Case · as Novel |
| 2014 | Penance · as Novel |
| 2013 | Midnight Ferris Wheel · as Novel |
| 2012 | High School Entrance Exam · as Screenplay |
| 2012 | Penance · as NovelOn Plex |
| 2010 | Confessions · as Novel |
| 2007 | Bokura no jidai · as Self |
| 2003 | Druckfrisch · as Self |
| 2016 | Correspondence ~ the Supplementary Tuition After 15 Years · as Original Story |
| 2013 | Hana no kusari · as Original Story |
| 2012 | A Chorus of Angels · as Original Story |