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Ryū Murakami

Born

in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan

February 19, 1952

Genre

Contemporary, Thriller, Horror

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Ryū Murakami (村上龍) 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 bles ...more

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	In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 44,489 ratings — published 1997 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Piercing by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 19,362 ratings — published 1994 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Audition by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.53 avg rating — 18,870 ratings — published 1997 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Almost Transparent Blue by Ryū Murakami, Nancy Andrew (Translator) 3.29 avg rating — 13,358 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coin Locker Babies by Ryū Murakami, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 9,651 ratings — published 1980 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	69 3.66 avg rating — 4,210 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 2,602 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tokyo Decadence by Ryū Murakami, Yuko Otake (Translator), Marco Fiocca (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 1,583 ratings — published 1988 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecstasy by Ryū Murakami, Mihaela Butnaru (Translator) 3.36 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Fatherland, with Love by Ryū Murakami, Ralph McCarthy (Translator), Charles De Wolf (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ryū Murakami (?)

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

tags: travel

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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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“... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there”
― Ryu Murakami, In the Miso Soup

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Lettura di Novembre (pls votate solo se avete intenzione di partecipare alla lettura!)
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La campana di vetro Sylvia Plath

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Tokyo Decadence Ryū Murakami

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Soffocare Chuck Palahniuk

1 vote, 12.5%

Scopami Virginie Despentes

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