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Ryū Murakami (村上 龍, Murakami Ryū, born February 19, 1952 in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan.
Coin Locker Babies (コインロッカー・ベイビーズ, Koinrokkā Beibīzu), 1980, is a novel by Ryū Murakami about coin-operated-locker babies, translated into English by Stephen Snyder. The translation was published in 1995 by Kodansha (講談社 Kōdansha) International Ltd and republished in 2013 by Pushkin Press.
Ryū Murakami's novel Coin Locker Babies is a coming-of-age story that follows two boys abandoned in adjacent train station lockers as they set off for the city to destroy the woman that first abandoned them.
In the Miso Soup (イン ザ・ミソスープ, In za Misosūpu) is a novel by Ryu Murakami. It was published over several months in Japanese throughout 1997 as a serialized feature in the Yomiuri Shimbun. In the same year, it was revised and republished as a book by Gentosha Bunko. The novel won the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction in 1997.
Audition (オーディション) is a Japanese novel by Ryu Murakami published in 1997 and published in English in 2009. It was the basis for the 1999 film Audition , directed by Takashi Miike . Characters
Almost Transparent Blue (限りなく透明に近いブルー, Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Burū, "Almost Infinitely Transparent Blue") is a 1976 novel, written by Japanese author Ryū Murakami, that features a portrait of narrator Ryū and his friends trapped in a cycle of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll during the 1970s.
From the Fatherland, with Love (半島を出よ, Hantō o Deyo) is a novel by Ryū Murakami, first published in Japanese in 2005 and translated into English in 2013 by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf, and Ginny Tapley.
Tokyo Decadence (トパーズ, Topāzu) is a 1992 Japanese pink film. [2] [3] This erotic film was directed by Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 ).