Ryu Murakami



Ryu Murakami

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born February 19, 1952
gender male
place of birth Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
genre Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Horror

about this author

Ryū Murakami is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. He is not related to Haruki Murakami or Takashi Murakami.

Murakami's first work, the short novel Almost Transparent Blue, written while he was still a student, deals with promiscuity and drug use among disaffected Japanese youth. Critically acclaimed as a new style of literature, it won the newcomer's literature prize in 1976 despite some observers decrying it as decadent. Later the same year, Blue won the Akutagawa Prize, going on to become a best seller. In 1980, Murakami published the much longer novel Coin Locker Babies, again to critical acclaim.

Takashi Miike's feature film Audition (1999) was based on one of his novels. Murakami reportedly liked it so much he gave Miike his bl...more

books by Ryu Murakami

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avg rating: 3.59 | 1254 ratings | 21 distinct works
Coin Locker Babies Coin Locker Babies (Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 3.85 — 320 ratings — published 1995
4 editions
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In the Miso Soup In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 3.53 — 307 ratings — published 2006
7 editions
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Almost Transparent Blue Almost Transparent Blue (Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 3.33 — 252 ratings — published 2003
6 editions
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Piercing Piercing (Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 3.52 — 104 ratings — published 2007
3 editions
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Sixty-Nine Sixty-Nine (Hardcover)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2007
6 editions
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Ecstasy Ecstasy
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2008
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Raffles Hotel Raffles Hotel (Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 4.00 — 1 ratings — published 2002
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Michiko Kon: Still Lifes Michiko Kon: Still Lifes (Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 2.00 — 1 ratings — published 1999
2 editions
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Top Illustrators Sexy Up Top Illustrators Sexy Up (Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 0
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Murakami Tamotsu Ryou Essays 1... Murakami Tamotsu Ryou Essays 1976-1981 (Library) (Kodansha Paperback)
by Ryu Murakami
avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1991
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quotes by Ryu Murakami

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"People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That's the real reason we have horror films - they act as shock absorbers - and if they disappeared altogether, I bet you'd see a big leap in the number of serial killers. After all, anyone stupid enough to get the idea of murdering people from a movie could get the same idea from watching the news."
Ryu Murakami (In the Miso Soup)
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