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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.
Murakami's first work was the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a university student. [7] It deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers in 1976, despite some objections on the grounds of decadence.
By 1979, the company began to branch off into live action with the films Almost Transparent Blue and Lady Oscar (a live-action adaptation of the manga The Rose of Versailles). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Almost Transparent Blue received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording for Ken'ichi Benitani at the 3rd Japan Academy Film Prize ...
English translation of Ryū Murakami's novel, Almost Transparent Blue Linda Nancy Andrew (August 17, 1947 – November 29, 1998) was the English-language translator of Japanese author Ryū Murakami 's highly acclaimed novel, Almost Transparent Blue , which had won the Akutagawa Prize in 1976.
Transparent Light Blue (Japanese: 透明な薄い水色に, Hepburn: Toumei na Usui Mizuiro ni) is a Japanese yuri manga series written and illustrated by Kiyoko Iwami. It was published in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime from October 18, 2017, to December 18, 2017, before being collected into a single tankōbon volume in 2018.
I would have to disagree with the assertion that the novel is pornographic, even if the entry merely says "almost" or some such thing. In fact, most of the sex is portrayed in such a way that the characters are indeed fleshed out and the action is left as decidedly less than erotic. I doubt that was Murakami's intent to begin with.
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 ).
Nancy Andrew – translator of Ryū Murakami's novel, Almost Transparent Blue; Donald Keene; Ian Hideo Levy – translator; one of the first Westerners to write a novel in Japanese; Don Philippi – translator of Japanese and Ainu; translated the Kojiki; also a noted technical translator