Side Burns

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The Big Sleep

Chandler's Marlowe stories invented the hard-boiled detective — every noir owes a debt

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No Longer Human

Dazai's autobiographical novel about alienation remains the darkest mirror of the culture

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Disco Elysium

The greatest detective RPG — your brain is the crime scene

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True Detective

McConaughey and Harrelson in the Louisiana dark — philosophical noir at its peak

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Princess Mononoke

Studio Ghibli at its most epic — nature, industry, and the cost of progress