Crying Freeman 1 - Plačící drak – Koike Kazue (2011)

Crying Freeman: The Crying Dragon is accessible from the age of eighteen and up. It offers the story of a killer who falls in love with one of his victims. Crying Freeman is a crime story that combines romance with brutal ruthlessness. It's like the tale of Romeo and Juliet retold by the Marquis de Sade and directed by Tony Scott. Japanese over-the-top emotions and fatalism clash here with what may seem to a European perspective as sheer amorality. All of this is depicted with absolute precision and perfectly timed action scenes. The text states: His name is Jo Hinomura, and he is a hitman for the Chinese mafia known as the One Hundred and Eight Dragons. In the criminal underworld, which fears him, he is known as the Crying Dragon, a killer who sheds tears over the fate of his victims. The young, handsome, and sensitive artist Jo has been psychologically programmed by his dragon masters to kill on command. He cannot defy the will of his masters, yet they cannot stop his tears of regret. The manga Crying Freeman, written by the legendary Kazuo Koike, author of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, and illustrated by the incomparable Ryoichi Ikegami, is an adult read through and through: it is dark, violent, morally complex, and erotically charged. It is popular worldwide...