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{{nihongo|Ryū Murakami|村上 龍|Murakami Ryū|born February 19, 1952}} is a Japanese novelist, 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. His best known novels are Almost Transparent Blue, Audition, Coin Locker Babies, and In the Miso Soup.

Biography

Murakami was born {{nihongo|Ryūnosuke Murakami|村上龍之助|Murakami Ryūnosuke}} in Sasebo, Nagasaki on 19 February 1952. The name Ryūnosuke was taken from the protagonist in Daibosatsu-tōge, a work of fiction by {{ill|Kaisan Nakazato|ja|中里介山}}.

Murakami attended school in Sasebo. While a student in senior high, he joined in forming a rock band called Coelacanth, as the drummer.{{cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/almost-transparent-blue-ryu-murakami/1101133064?ean=9780870114694|title=Almost Transparent Blue|first=Barnes &|last=Noble|website=Barnes & Noble|access-date=17 February 2018}} In the summer of his third year in senior high, Murakami and his fellow students barricaded the rooftop of his high school and he was placed under house arrest for three months. During this time, he had an encounter with hippie culture, which had a strong influence on him.

After graduating from high school in 1970, Murakami formed another rock band and produced some 8-millimeter indie films.{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/05a447e8-263e-11e3-8ef6-00144feab7de|title=Ryu Murakami|first=David|last=Pilling|date=27 September 2013|website=Financial Times|access-date=17 February 2018}} He enrolled in the silkscreen department at Gendaishichosha School of Art in Tokyo, but dropped out in the first year. In October 1972, he moved to Fussa, Tokyo and was accepted for the sculpture program at Musashino Art University. He married his wife, a keyboard player, in the 1970s and their son was born in 1980.{{Cite news | url=https://www.ft.com/content/05a447e8-263e-11e3-8ef6-00144feab7de | title=Ryu Murakami| newspaper=Financial Times| date=2013-09-27| last1=Pilling| first1=David}} In the early 1990s, Murakami devoted himself to disseminating Cuban music in Japan and established a label, Murakami's, within Sony Music.

Murakami started the e-magazine JMM (Japan Mail Media) in 1999 and still serves as its chief editor. Since 2006, he has also hosted a talk show on business and finance called Kanburia Kyuden, broadcast on TV Tokyo.{{cite web|url=http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/cambria/|title=カンブリア宮殿：テレビ東京|website=カンブリア宮殿：テレビ東京|access-date=17 February 2018}} The co-host is Eiko Koike. In the same year, he began a video streaming service, RVR (Ryu's Video Report). In 2010, he established a company, {{ill|G2010|ja}}, to sell and produce eBooks.{{cite web|url=http://www.itmedia.co.jp/pcuser/articles/1011/04/news093.html|script-title=ja:「電子書籍は文字文化の革命」——作家・村上龍さんが電子書籍会社設立|language= ja|date=2010-11-04|access-date=2014-06-29|publisher= ITmedia Enterprise}}{{cite web|url=http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/770/770394/|title= iBookstoreとともに「村上龍電子本製作所」が始動|language= ja|date=2013-03-08|access-date=2014-06-29|publisher= ASCII Corporation}}

Works

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Murakami's first work was the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a university student.{{Cite web | url=https://www.japansociety.org.uk/tag/murakami-ryu/ |title = Murakami ryu Archives}} 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. Later the same year, his Blue won the Akutagawa Prize,{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/ryu-murukami-about-north-korea-and-the-future-of-japan|title=The Future of Japan Is 'Very Dark', Says Ryu Murakami|date=3 May 2013|access-date=17 February 2018}} going on to become a bestseller.

In 1980, Murakami published a much longer novel, Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim, and won the 3rd Noma Liberal Arts New Member Prize. Next came the autobiographical novel 69, and then Ai to Gensō no Fascism (1987), revolving around the struggle to reform Japan's survival-of-the-fittest society with a secret "Hunting Society".{{clarify|date=October 2018}} His work Topaz (1988) concerns a sado-masochistic woman's radical expression of her sexuality.

Murakami's The World in Five Minutes From Now (1994) is written as a point of view in a parallel universe version of Japan, and was nominated for the 30th Tanizaki Prize. In 1996 he continued his autobiography 69, and released the Murakami Ryū Movie and Novel Collection. He also won the Taiko Hirabayashi Prize. The same year, he wrote the novel Topaz II about a female high school student engaged in "compensated dating", which later was adapted as the live-action film Love & Pop by anime director Hideaki Anno. His Popular Hits of the Showa Era concerns the escalating firepower in a battle between five teenage male and five middle-aged female social rejects. Literary scholar Barbara Greene suggests that the text reveals how "the invisible violence of post-Bubble Japan’s social order is made explicit through a low-stakes, yet hyperviolent, guerilla war undertaken by a set of ludicrous and narcissistic characters whose increasingly deadly attacks are met with public indifference. Within the consumer-capitalist social order, personal satisfaction is the paramount goal..."{{Cite journal |last=Greene |first=Barbara |date=2023-05-17 |title=A subaltern civil war: Precariat in-Fighting in Murakami Ryu's Popular Hits of the Showa Era |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18692729.2023.2208400 |journal=Contemporary Japan |language=en |pages=1–21 |doi=10.1080/18692729.2023.2208400 |issn=1869-2729}}

In 1997 came the psychological thriller novel In the Miso Soup, set in Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district, which won him the Yomiuri Prize for Fiction that year. Parasites (Kyōsei chū, 2000) is about a young hikikomori fascinated by war. It won him the 36th Tanizaki Prize. The same year Exodus From Hopeless Japan (Kibō no Kuni no Exodus) told of junior high school students who lose their desire to be involved in normal Japanese society and instead create a new one over the internet.

In 2001, Murakami became involved in his friend Ryuichi Sakamoto's group NML No More Landmines, which sets out to remove landmines from former battle sites around the world.

In 2004, Murakami announced the publication of 13 Year Old Hello Work, aimed at increasing interest in young people who are entering the workforce. Hantō wo Deyo (2005) is about an invasion of Japan by North Korea. It won him the Noma Liberal Arts Prize and {{ill|Mainichi Shuppan Culture Award|ja|毎日出版文化賞}}.

The novel Audition was made into a feature film by Takashi Miike. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his blessing to adapt Coin Locker Babies. The screenplay for the latter was worked on by director Jordan Galland but Miike failed to raise enough funding for it. An adaptation directed by Michele Civetta is currently in production.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451019/|title=404 Error - IMDb|access-date=17 February 2018|via=www.imdb.com}}{{Update inline|date=January 2016}}

In 2011, Utau Kujira won the {{ill|Mainichi Art Award|ja|毎日芸術賞}}.

Selected bibliography

= Novels =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Notes

1976

| {{nihongo

限りなく透明に近いブルー|Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Burū}}

| Almost Transparent Blue

| English translation by Nancy Andrew

1977

| {{nihongo

海の向こうで戦争が始まる|Umi no Mukō de Sensō ga Hajimaru}}

| War Begins Beyond the Sea

| French translation by Claude Okamoto

1980

| {{nihongo

コインロッカー・ベイビーズ|Koinrokkā Beibīzu}}

| Coin Locker Babies

| English translation by Stephen Snyder, republished by Pushkin Press, 2013

1983

| {{nihongo

だいじょうぶマイ・フレンド|Daijōbu mai furendo}}

| All Right, My Friend

|

1985

| {{nihongo

テニスボーイの憂鬱|Tenisu Bōi no Yūutsu}}

| Melancholy of Tennis Boy

|

rowspan=2 | 1987

| 69 Shikusuti Nain

| 69

| English translation by Ralph F. McCarthy, published by Pushkin Press, 2013

{{nihongo愛と幻想のファシズム|Ai to Gensō no Fasizumu}}

| Fascism of Love and Fantasy

|

1989

| {{nihongo

ラッフルズホテル|Raffuruzu Hoteru}}

| Raffles Hotel

|

rowspan=2 | 1991

| {{nihongo

コックサッカーブルース|Kokkusakkā Burūsu}}

| Cocksucker Blues

{{nihongo超電導ナイトクラブ|Chōdendō Naito Kurabu}}

| Superconduction Nightclub

|

rowspan=2 | 1992

| {{nihongo

イビサ|Ibisa}}

| Ibiza

|

{{nihongo長崎オランダ村|Nagasaki Oranda Mura}}

| Nagasaki Holland Village

|

rowspan=4 | 1993

| {{nihongo

エクスタシー|Ekusutashī}}

| Ecstasy

|

{{nihongoフィジーの小人|Fijī no Kobito}}

| Fijian Midget

|

{{nihongo368Y Par4 第2打|Sanbyakurokujūhachi Yādo Pā Fō Dai Ni Da}}

| 368Y Par4 the 2nd shot

|

{{nihongo音楽の海岸|Ongaku no Kaigan}}

| The seashore of the music

|

rowspan=3 | 1994

| {{nihongo

昭和歌謡大全集|Shōwa Kayō Daizenshū}}

| Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel

| English translation by Ralph F. McCarthy. Published by Pushkin Press, 2013

{{nihongo五分後の世界|Gofungo no Sekai}}

| The World in Five Minutes From Now

|

{{nihongoピアッシング|Piasshingu}}

| Piercing

| English translation by Ralph F. McCarthy. Published in English January 2007.

1995

| KYOKO

| Kyoko

| French translation by Corinne Atlan

rowspan=3 | 1996

| {{nihongo

ヒュウガ・ウイルス 五分後の世界II|Hūga Uirusu Gofungo no Sekai Tū}}

| Hūga Virus: The World in Five Minutes From Now II

|

{{nihongoメランコリア|Merankoria}}

| Melancholia

| French translation by Sylvain Cardonnel

{{nihongoラブ&ポップ トパーズII|Rabu ando Poppu Topāzu Tū}}

| Love & Pop: Topaz II

|

rowspan=4 | 1997

| {{nihongo

オーディション|Ōdishon}}

| Audition

| English translation by Ralph McCarthy.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4209490/Audition-by-Ryu-Murakami-review.html|title=Audition by Ryu Murakami - review|first=Kasia|last=Boddy|date=17 February 2018|access-date=17 February 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}} Spanish translation by J.C. Cortés.

{{nihongoストレンジ・デイズ|Sutorenji Deizu}}

| Strange Days

|

rowspan=2 | {{nihongoイン ザ・ミソスープ|In za Misosūpu}}

| rowspan=2 | In the Miso Soup

| English translation by Ralph F. McCarthy. Published in English 2005.

French translation ("Miso Soup") by Corinne Atlan. Published in French January 2003.
1998

| {{nihongo

ライン|Rain}}

| Lines

| French translation ("Lignes") by Sylvain Cardonnel, Czech translation ("Čáry") by Jan Levora.

rowspan="2" | 2000

| {{nihongo

共生虫|Kyōsei Chū}}

| Parasites

| French translation by Sylvain Cardonnel

{{nihongo希望の国のエクソダス|Kibō no Kuni no Ekusodasu}}

| Exodus of the country of hope

|

rowspan=3 | 2001

| {{nihongo

タナトス|Tanatosu}}

| Thanatos

|

THE MASK CLUB

| The Mask Club

|

{{nihongo最後の家族|Saigo no Kazoku}}

| The Last Family

|

2005

| {{nihongo

半島を出よ|Hantō o Deyo}}

| From the Fatherland, with Love

| Translated into English by Ralph McCarthy, Charles De Wolf and Ginny Tapley Takemori, published by Pushkin Press, 2013

2010

| {{nihongo2|歌うクジラ}}

| A Singing Whale{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jul/25/ryu-murakami-ipad-apple-publishing|title = Might Ryu Murakami's switch to the iPad signal the beginning of the end for traditional publishers?|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 24 July 2010}}

|

2011

| {{nihongo

心はあなたのもとに|Kokoro wa Anata no Motoni}}

| My Love is Beneath You

|

2015

| {{nihongo

オールド・テロリスト|Ōrudo Terorisuto}}

| Old Terrorist

|

= Short story collections =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Notes

1984

| {{nihongo

悲しき熱帯|Kanashiki Nettai}}

| Tropical Sad

| reissued under the new title of "Summer in the city" in 1988.

rowspan=3 | 1986

| {{nihongo

POST ポップアートのある部屋|Posuto Poppu Āto no aru Heya}}

| POST, Room with Pop Art

|

{{nihongo走れ！タカハシ|Hashire! Takahashi}}

| Run! Takahashi

| a series of novels about one baseball player

{{nihongo2|ニューヨーク・シティ・マラソン}}

| New York City Marathon

|

rowspan=2 | 1988

| {{nihongo

トパーズ|Topāzu}}

| Topaz

|

{{nihongo村上龍料理小説集|Murakami Ryū Ryōri Shōsetsushū}}

| The collection of the Ryū Murakami dish novels

|

1991

| {{nihongo

恋はいつも未知なもの|Koi wa itsumo Michina mono}}

| Love is always strange

|

1995

| {{nihongo

村上龍映画小説集|Murakami Ryū Eiga Shōsetsushū}}

| The collection of the Ryū Murakami movie novels

|

1996

| {{nihongo

モニカ-音楽家の夢・小説家の物語|Monika – Ongakuka no Yume Shōsetsuka no Monogatari}}

| Monica - Dream of a musician, story of a novelist

| Joint work with Ryuichi Sakamoto

1997

| {{nihongo

白鳥|Hakuchō}}

| Swan

|

1998

| {{nihongo

ワイン一杯だけの真実|Wain Ippai dake no Shinjitsu}}

| Truth of a cup of wine

|

rowspan=2 | 2003

| {{nihongo

とおくはなれてそばにいて|Tōku Hanarete Soba ni ite}}

|

|

{{nihongoどこにでもある場所どこにもいないわたし|Dokonidemo aru Basho Dokonimo inai Watashi}}

|

| renamed to {{nihongo

空港にて|Kūkō nite|at the airport}} in the paperback edition
2007

| {{nihongo

特権的情人美食 村上龍料理&官能小説集|Tokkenteki Jōjin Bishoku Murakami Ryū Ryōri & Kannō Shōsetsushū}}

| The privileged mistress gastronomy: The collection of Ryū Murakami dish & sensuality novels

|

2012

| {{nihongo

55歳からのハローライフ|Gojūgo-sai kara no Harōraifu}}

| Hello Life from 55 years old

|

2016

|

| Tokyo Decadence: 15 Stories

| A collection of stories from several of Murakami's story collections, translated by Ralph McCarthy. Spanish translation by J.C. Cortés

= English short stories =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Notes

2004

|

| It's Been Just a Year and a Half Now Since I Went with My Boss to That Bar

| short story published in Zoetrope: All-Story (Vol. 8, No. 4, 2004). English translation by Ralph McCarthy.{{cite web|url=http://www.all-story.com/search.cgi?action=show_author&author_id=220|title=Zoetrope: All-Story|website=www.all-story.com|access-date=17 February 2018}}

2005

|

| I am a Novelist

| short story published in The New Yorker (Jan. 3, 2005).
English translation by Ralph McCarthy

2009

|

| At the Airport

| short story in Zoetrope All-Story (Vol. 13, No. 2, 2009). English translation by Ralph McCarthy.

2010

|

| No Matter How Many Times I Read Your Confession, There's One Thing I Just Don't Understand: Why Didn't You Kill the Woman?

| Zoetrope All-Story (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2010).

2011

|

| Penlight

| Zoetrope All-Story (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2011). English translation by Ralph McCarthy.

= Non-fiction and essays =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Notes

1985

| {{nihongo

アメリカン★ドリーム| Amerikan Dorīmu}}

| American Dream

|

1987

| {{nihongo

すべての男は消耗品である。| Subete no Otoko wa Shōmōhin de aru}}

| Every Man is a Consumable

| Vol.1–11 (1987–2010)

rowspan=3 | 1991

| {{nihongo

村上龍全エッセイ 1976-1981| Murakami Ryū zen essei 1976-1981}}

| All the Ryū Murakami essays 1976-1981

|

{{nihongo村上龍全エッセイ 1982-1986| Murakami Ryū zen essei 1982-1986}}

| All the Ryū Murakami essays 1982-1986

|

{{nihongo村上龍全エッセイ 1987-1991| Murakami Ryū zen essei 1987-1991}}

| All the Ryū Murakami essays 1987-1991

|

1992

| {{nihongo

龍言飛語| Ryū gen higo}}

|

|

1993

| {{nihongo

「普通の女の子」として存在したくないあなたへ。| "Futsū no onna no ko" to shite sonzaishitakunai anata e.}}

| To you who don't want to exist as "an ordinary girl."

|

1996

| {{nihongo

あなたがいなくなった後の東京物語|Anata ga inakunatta ato no Tōkyō monogatari }}

| Tokyo Story after you go away

|

rowspan=2 | 1998

| {{nihongo

寂しい国の殺人| Samishī koku no satsujin}}

| Murder in a lonely country

|

{{nihongoフィジカル・インテンシティ| Fijikaru intenshiti}}

| Physical Intensity

| Vol.1-5 (1998–2002)

1999

| {{nihongo

寂しい国から遥かなるワールドサッカーへ| Samishī koku kara haruka wārudo sakkā e}}

| From the Lonely country to far-off world soccer

|

2000

| {{nihongo

誰にでもできる恋愛| Dare ni demo de kiru renai}}

| The love that anyone can do

|

2001

| {{nihongo

ダメな女| Dame na onna}}

| Useless Woman

|

rowspan=3 | 2002

| {{nihongo

だまされないために、わたしは経済を学んだ 村上龍weekly report| Damesarenai tameni, watashi wa keizai manda Murakami Ryū Weekly Report}}

| I studied economics so as not to be deceived: Ryū Murakami weekly report

|

{{nihongo恋愛の格差|Renai no Kakusa}}

| Involuntary celibacy

|

{{nihongoマクロ・日本経済からミクロ・あなた自身へ 村上龍weekly report| Makuro Nihon keizai kara mikuro anata jishin e Murakami Ryū Weekly Report }}

| From macro, Japanese economy to micro, yourself: Ryū Murakami weekly report

|

2003

| {{nihongo

自殺よりはSEX 村上龍の恋愛・女性論| Jisatsu yori wa SEX Murakami Ryū no Renai Jōsei ron}}

| SEX is better than Suicide: Ryū Murakami's theory of love and woman

|

rowspan=2 | 2006

| {{nihongo

わたしは甘えているのでしょうか？27歳・OL| Watashi wa amaete iru no deshō ka? 27 sai OL}}

| Am I spoiling myself? 27 years old, female office worker

|

{{nihongo村上龍文学的エッセイ集|Murakami Ryū bungaku teki essei shū }}

| The collection of Ryū Murakami literary essays

|

2007

| {{nihongo

案外、買い物好き| Angai, kaimono suki}}

| Unexpectedly, I'm a shopping lover

|

2008

| {{nihongo

それでもわたしは、恋がしたい　幸福になりたい　お金も欲しい| Sore de mo watashi wa koi ga shitai kōfuku ni naritai okane mo hoshī}}

| Still I want to love, want to be happy, and also want money

|

2009

| {{nihongo

無趣味のすすめ|Mushumi no susume }}

| Encouragement of having no hobby

|

2010

| {{nihongo

逃げる中高年、欲望のない若者たち| Nigeru chuukōnen, yokubō no nai wakamonotachi}}

| Old and middle age who run away, youths with few wants

|

2012

| {{nihongo

櫻の樹の下には瓦礫が埋まっている| Sakura no ki no shita niwa gareki ga uzumatte iru.}}

| Debris is buried under the cherry tree.

|

= Interviews and letters =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Notes

1977

| {{nihongo2|中上健次vs村上龍 俺たちの船は、動かぬ霧の中を、纜を解いて}}

| Kenji Nakagami vs Ryū Murakami: Our ship unmoors in a stagnant fog

| with Kenji Nakagami

1981

| {{nihongo2|ウォーク・ドント・ラン 村上龍VS村上春樹}}

Wōku donto ran Murakami Ryū vs Murakami Haruki

| Walk, Don't Run: Ryū Murakami vs Haruki Murakami

| with Haruki Murakami

1985

| {{nihongo2|EV.Cafe 超進化論}}

| EV.Cafe ultra-Darwinism

| with Ryuichi Sakamoto

1992

| {{nihongo2|友よ、また逢おう}}

| See you, my friend

| Ryū Murakami = Ryuichi Sakamoto letters

1994

| {{nihongo2|村上龍＋椹木野衣 最新対論 神は細部に宿る}}

| Ryū Murakami + Noi Sawaragi Latest Discussion: God is in the details

| with Noi Sawaragi

1999

| {{nihongo2|村上龍対談集　存在の耐えがたきサルサ}}

| Ryū Murakami interview collection: The Unbearable Salsa of Being

|

2006

| {{nihongo2|「個」を見つめるダイアローグ　村上壟X伊藤穣一|"Ko" wo Mitsumeru Daiarōgu Murakami Ryū X Itō Jōichi}}

| Dialogue to stare at "individual": Ryū Murakami X Joichi Ito

|

= Picture book =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Notes

1983

| {{nihongo2|絵本 だいじょうぶマイ・フレンド}}

| Picture book: All Right, My Friend

| Illustrator: Katsu Yoshida

1989

| {{nihongo2|友達のラ リ ル レ ロ}}

|

| Illustrator: Sumako Yasui

1996

| {{nihongo2|絵物語・永遠の一瞬 すてきなジェニファー}}

| Wonderful Jennifer

| Illustrator: Yoko Yamamoto

1999

| {{nihongo2|あの金で何が買えたか バブル・ファンタジー}}

| What were we able to buy with that money?: Bubble Fantasy

| Illustrator: Yuka Hamano

2000

| {{nihongo2|ストレイト・ストーリー}}

| The Straight Story

| picture book of the movie (director: David Lynch) of the same title, Illustrator: Yuka Hamano

2001

| {{nihongo2|おじいさんは山へ金儲けに 時として、投資は希望を生む}}

| The old man goes to the mountain for money-making. The investment occasionally produces hope.

| Illustrator: Yuka Hamano

rowspan=2 | 2003

| {{nihongo2|13歳のハローワーク}}

| Hello Work for 13 years old

| Illustrator: Yuka Hamano

{{nihongo2|ポストマン}}

| Postman

| Illustrator: Yuka Hamano

| {{nihongo2|シールド（盾）|Sīrudo (Tate)}}

| Shield

| Illustrator: Yuka Hamano

Filmography

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Japanese Title

! English Title

! Role

! Director

1979

| 限りなく透明に近いブルー
Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burū

| Almost Transparent Blue

| Novel, Scriptwriter, Director

| Ryū Murakami

1983

| だいじょうぶマイ・フレンド
Daijōbu mai furendo

| All Right, My Friend

| Novel, Scriptwriter, Director

| Ryū Murakami

1989

| ラッフルズホテル
Raffuruzu Hoteru

| Raffles Hotel

| Novel, Director

| Ryū Murakami

1992

| トパーズ
Topāzu

| Topaz a.k.a. Tokyo Decadence

| Novel, Scriptwriter, Director

| Ryū Murakami

1996

| ラブ＆ポップ
Rabu & Poppu

| Love & Pop

| Novel

| Hideaki Anno

1999

| オーディション
Ōdishon

| Audition

| Novel

| Takashi Miike

2000

| KYOKO

| Because of You

| Novel, Scriptwriter, Director

| Ryū Murakami

2001

| 走れ！イチロー
Hashire! Ichirō

| Run! Ichiro

| Novel

| Kazuki Ōmori

2003

| 昭和歌謡大全集
Shōwa kayō daizenshū

| Karaoke Terror: The Complete Japanese Showa Songbook

| Novel

| Tetsuo Shinohara

2004

| シクスティナイン
Shikusutinain

| 69

| Novel

| Lee Sang-il

2006

| ポプラル！
Popuraru!

| Popular!

| Executive Producer

| Jen Paz

2018

|ピアッシング

Piasshingu

|Piercing

|Novel

|Nicolas Pesce

References

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External links

  • [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/murakami_ryu "Murakami Ryū"] (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; by Jonathan Clements)
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  • [http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/431-ryu-murakami Ryu Murakami] at J'Lit Books from Japan
  • [http://www.jlpp.go.jp/en/works/05_13.html Synopsis of Leave the Peninsula (Hanto o Deyo)] at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20131014173619/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/review-ryu-murakami-from-the-fatherland-with-love REVIEW : Ryu Murakami] - From the Fatherland With Love at Upcoming4.me
  • [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0613487/ Ryu Murakami] at the IMDb

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