Minato Kanae

Name: Minato Kanae
Native name: 湊かなえ
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Female
Born: January, 1973
Age: 51

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.

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Year	Title	Type	Rating
2023	Rakujitsu	Drama	8.0
2022	Motherhood	Movie	7.7
2021	Yamaonna Nikki Season 3	Drama	8.4
2019	Poison Daughter, Holy Mother	Drama	7.6
2017	Yamaonna Nikki Season 2: Yama Fesu ni Ikou/Alps no Jou	Drama	7.7
2017	Reverse	Drama	7.8
2016	Yamaonna Nikki	Drama	8.0
2016	Night's Tightrope	Movie	7.1
2016	Oufuku Shokan	Special	7.5
2016	Boukyou	Special	7.6
2016	Josei Sakka Mysteries Utsukushiki Mitsu no Uso	Special	7.0
2014	N no Tame ni	Drama	8.3
2014	The Murder of Snow White	Movie	7.8
2013	Hana no Kusari	Special	7.3
2013	Yakou Kanransha	Drama	8.0
2012	A Chorus of Angels	Movie	7.4
2012	Koko Nyushi	Drama	7.3
2012	Shokuzai	Drama	7.3
2011	Kyogu	Special	6.6
2010	Confessions	Movie	8.4

Year	Title	#	Role	Rating
2017	Yamaonna Nikki Season 2: Yama Fesu ni Ikou/Alps no Jou Japanese Drama, 2017, 2 eps Female Climber (Part 2) (Guest Role)	2	Female Climber (Part 2) Guest Role	7.7

Year	Title	#	Role	Rating
2011	Goro Deluxe Japanese TV Show, 2011, 331 eps 01 18 2013 (Guest Role)	331	01 18 2013 Guest Role	0.0
1996	SmapXSmap Japanese TV Show, 1996, 920 eps (2015.07.20) (Guest)	920	(2015.07.20) Guest	8.4
1951	Kouhaku Uta Gassen Japanese TV Show, 1951, 73 eps [Judge] (Ep. 61) (Guest)	73	[Judge] (Ep. 61) Guest	7.6