Ryū Murakami
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Ryū Murakami 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
Ryū Murakami in 2005
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Audition (Murakami novel)
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Audition is a Japanese novel by Ryu Murakami, first published in 1997. It was the basis for the 1999 film Audition directed by Takashi Miike. An English version of the novel was published in 2009.
Ryū Murakami
…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. Murakami was born Ryūnosuke Murakami (村上龍之助, Murakami Ryūnosuke) in Sasebo, Nagasaki on 19 February 1952…
Front cover of the Japanese novel