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However, where I’d expected another laff-packed mystery, what I got instead was a white-knuckle ride of an adventure yarn. The humor’s there, but it’s not what I’ll remember in a week’s time. The book’s plot is nothing especially original. It’s Christmas Eve 1988 and a child who’s just lost her parents to an accident and herself needs urgent medical attention arrives in the Wyoming home turf of Walt Longmire, lately elected Sheriff of Absaroka County. The nearest hospital that can give the gi*l the emergency care she needs for her burns and other injuries is in Denver, Colorado, but there’s a winter storm raging all across the intervening area and the roads are closed. The sole chance to save her life seems to be to try to transport her by air through the blizzard and the winds and the darkness. Trouble is, the only available aircraft is a dilapidated The professionals balk at the prospect of the flight, so Walt, his ex-bomber-pilot predecessor as sheriff, Lucian, an underqualified copilot called Julie and the town’s elderly doctor, a concentration camp survivor, volunteer to get the old rustbucket into the air and transport the child and her grandmother through several hundred miles of hostile air. Their chances, they reckon, are slim, but they can’t Mountaingate DIR & SCR: Kôji Fukada PR: Hiroshi Niimura, Yosh*to Ohyama, Masa Sawada, Tsuyoshi Toyama CINE: Ken’ichi Negishi CAST: Mariko Tsutsui, Kanji Furutachi, Tadanobu Asano, Taiga, Momone Shinokawa, Kana Mahiro, Takahiro Miura. An oddly hypnotic piece of Japanese neonoir, presented in two acts that are separated by a period of years. Toshio (Furutachi) runs a small, independent metalworking company, its staff just him and a succession of apprentices, with his wife Akié (Tsutsui) helping with the accounts. One day, to Akié’s surprise, he suddenly takes on the enigmatic Mr. Yasaka (Asano), an old friend of his whom she’s never met who “just happened to be pas*ing.” We soon learn that Yasaka has recently come out of jail after an