Pierre Földes’ animated feature interweaves six stories by the celebrated Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic The feature is divided into six sections, each ...

Revealing the flaws of Japanese society, the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway prompted Murakami to return to his homeland, whose conformism he rejected, to examine it closely. This led to the ...

Haruki Murakami doesn’t write in any particular genre — the Japanese literary giant is a genre. While his expansive bibliography has seen him dip his toe into everything from magical realism and ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

“After the Quake,” a film adaptation of a Murakami Haruki story collection, has been picked up by Japan’s Bitters End for international rights sales. Directed by Inoue Tsuyoshi (“Amachan”) and ...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, a debut feature-length animated film by French composer Pierre Foldes, has been released this summer in English to several streaming sources and on disc from Zeitgeist ...

Days after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northern Japan, an anthropomorphic, human-size, chatty frog sits at the kitchen table of Mr. Katagiri (voiced by Marcelo Arroyo), a ...

Despite Haruki Murakami’s global popularity, only recently have film adaptations of his work gotten real prominence, with acclaimed movies like Burning (2018) and the Oscar-winning Drive My Car (2021) ...

Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard. By David Brooks Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s ...